[Zope] Re: [ZDP] Re: [Zope] The agony of the ZOPE Documentation

Hi ! Chris Withers wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I have to say, the ZOPE documentation, despite efforts > > to improve it, is absolutely, positively horrible. Not because the > > content isn't there, but because the tools to access it simply suck. > > Gotta agree with

Re: [Zope] Oh

Hi ! Luis Cortes wrote: > There is one other worth mentioning, that is ALL ZOPE TIPS which is a > collection of useful examples ( unfortunately this is not part of the standard > documentation ) you will have to go to the Zope site and download it from the > documentation URL. You can find a lin

Re: [Zope] Proposal for mail-in to Zope

Hi ! Simon Coles wrote: > Does this sound like what people need? Any thoughts, comments, warnings? > > I don't know yet what kind of schedule we'll be able to do this on > but drop me a mail and when there's something to play with we'll let > you know. I wanted to define this as a Task for the

Re: [Zope] Products vs. ZClasses- Design Question

Hi ! > I would like some thoughts on design strategies for Zope classes. I am > developing a site that will require writing some custom classes. I would > appreciate any opinions anyone could offer. I have summed up the discussion for future reference here: http://zdp.zope.org/portals/develop

Re: [Zope] Products vs. ZClasses- Design Question

Hi Jimmie ! Jimmie Houchin wrote: > > This sounds weird ! Well, every page on the ZDP site has a Maintainer, > > and that is displayed on the top right. If you click on that link, > > you get to the member page, where the email exists. > > I go back again to make sure of what I saw. In the upper

Re: [Zope] Installed Products

Hi Tim ! Tim Cook wrote: > > Because it is a Python based product and not a ZClass based product? > > So all the really cool, useful stuff is being written in Python > instead of ZClasses? Is there a specific reason for this? > Speed? Capability? Have a look at: http://zdp.zope.org/portal

Re: [Zope] Rendering Folderish ZClass Object

Hi Chris ! Chris Withers wrote: > I have a ZClass based on Folder. Contained within this is a DTML Method, > index_html. This is mapped to the 'View' view and renders the > appropriate object contained in itself depending on soem logic. > > All, is well if I access the object through a URL, the

Re: [Zope] Testing For Filesize

Hi Terry ! Terry Babbey wrote: > > I am trying to create a automated drop down list, and here is my code > so far: > > > > > > > > I would like to be more specific though and only list files of zero > byte size. Is this possible? There is a snippet here: http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zsn

Re: [Zope] automatic link adjustment

Hi Ragnar ! Ragnar Beer wrote: > I just ran into some kind of administrative problem: my students are > not so willing anymore when it comes to changing links for the third > revision of our website. There are about 200 links to change manually > and they have my full sympathy. Apart from that th

Re: [Zope] Mirroring to IIS

Hi Jake ! Jake LeBeau wrote: > I'm attempting to mirror our Zope site to IIS 5.0 on a W2K Server, >and am having problems with Netscape Navigator. Because the files have > no file extension, Netscape keeps trying to download and save the >files to disk, rather than displaying the content as HTM

Re: [Zope] Zope Knowledge Base on www.faqts.com?

Hi Fiona ! Fiona Czuczman wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been working on a Python knowledge base for the last couple of > months. > > http://python.faqts.com > > Each day I go through postings to the newsgroup and enter those that I > believe would be useful FAQs into the site, then I send out a sum

Re: [Zope] Delete property woes in ZClasses

Hi Paul ! Paul Abrams wrote: > > I noticed that when you delete a property in a ZClass, it > doesn't actually delete the property in **instances** of > that ZClass! This leaves properties lying around where they > can be inadvertently acquired, causing problems that are > difficult to trace. >

Re: [Zope] ZStylesheet

Hi Neil ! Neil Burnett wrote: > > Warning: This is a 'get it off my chest' e-mail. > > Well, I am going to give up with CSS. I am sure ZStylesheet is a fine > product, its just that CSS implementations lets it down. Well, perhaps you can have a look at the Web Designers Portal under the subjec

Re: [Zope] Delete property woes in ZClasses

Hi Paul ! Paul Abrams wrote: > Thanks! I think the delete method will be ideal to patch my > site. I also see how the move method can be *very* useful. > > Shall I write this up as a how-to? That would be great ! Perhaps you can also find a way to do this recursively ? Have a look at my recurs

Re: [Zope] length of an object

Hi ! Chris Withers wrote: > > Brown Fox wrote: > > i want to know the size of an image or a file. > > > > With > > > > i count objects, but for the length? > > For images or file objects, I think you can try for: > > Isn't it nice we have the Snippets ? :-) http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zsn

Re: [Zope] Display the icon of a meta_type

Hi Gerard ! "Gerard Metrailler Jr." wrote: > > Hello, > > I am facing a little problem ;-) > > I am using a ZCatalog object on my site. When I do a query, I want the > results do display the meta_type of the document found with it's icon. I've > seen that on Zope.org and loved this idea... the

[Zope] Meet Paul Everitt at the Paris Zope Meeting !

Hi everyone ! The Paris Zope Meeting is a great opportunity for Europe's Zope community to meet Paul Everitt, CEO of Digital Creations, who is currently in France for holidays. It is also a chance to meet Zope developers from England, Germany, Switzerland and of course France. If you want to co

[Zope] Meet Paul Everitt at the Paris Zope Meeting !

Hi everyone ! The Paris Zope Meeting is a great opportunity for Europe's Zope community to meet Paul Everitt, CEO of Digital Creations, who is currently in France for holidays. It is also a chance to meet Zope developers from England, Germany, Switzerland and of course France. If you want to c

Re: [Zope] Where do I find out about cookies?

Hi Jean ! Jean Jordaan wrote: > It looks like I'm going to be using cookies now, and I don't find any > How-To on cookies. I am collecting everything on cookies in the developers portal of the ZDP: http://zdp.zope.org/portals/developers/sessionmanagement/cookies Hope this helps. Once you have

[Zope] Small Tip

Hi ! It always got on my nerves that I needed to change the column size of the DTML Method and DTML Document Edit Forms manually by pressing "Wider" and "Narrower". Instead of patching the Zope source code, I found the following a good approach: Define a property in your root folder: id: dtpr

[Zope] Re: [ez] ZMenu 0.0.2 product

Hi Hugo ! Hugo Ramos wrote: > ZMenu is a complete navigational system that uses a tree like display. > It allows you to dinamicly add a navigational link menus system to your site. I have added part of your Product into the ZDP-Tools by adding a DTML method to my DocumentFolder ZClass, and it wo

Re: [Zope] Logging out of Zope

Hi ! Dieter Maurer wrote: > > Stuart Foster writes: > > Is there a way to allow an authenticated user to logout of Zope? > > I want to allow a user to logout and someone else login. > This is a FAQ. Better still add it to the FAQ at http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zfaq and also make a reference

Re: [Zope] Organizing huge content

Hi ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hallo, > my question is about organizing scripting when you have to deal with huge > amounts of content. > I.e. you have a custom that wants to establish a website .This website > should have in the future about 2000 pages but you on your own are building > only

Re: [Zope] Broken 'What's New' on Zope.org?

Hi Chris ! Chris Withers wrote: > > Chris McDonough wrote: > > > > This is a longstanding bug. > > > > Send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If anyone fixes it, please let us all know... > > I'm looking for just the same functionality for a site here adn I was > hoping to do a view_source f

Re: [Zope] Design Question

Hi Tim ! Tim Cook wrote: > > Tim Cook wrote: > > > > > Anyway I pickled the dictionary and it's just over 1.3MB so I > > thought I'd use an external method to read the pickled object, > > pass it the paragraph and test for the correct code(s), then > > return a list. Is this the most effective

Re: [Zope] Design Question

Hi Tim ! Tim Cook wrote: > > I guess the Catalog doesn't support OR searches, which would > > do what you need. > > Actually the ZCatalog solution works. But having 15,212 instances > of a ZClass in one BTree folder was pretty slow. I ASS-U-MEd that > an external python method might provide a be

Re: [Zope] HTML Widgets, In-place editing in Zope

Hi Phill ! Phill Hugo wrote: > widgets is an external method which will be on Zope.org next week if all > goes well. Great, it looks very nice ! Perhaps this should go into the Zope core sometime/where ? Best regards, Maik Röder -- Uzopia - Digging la vida Zopa - http://uzopia.editthispage.

Re: [Zope] Use variable value by other file

Hi Rafael ! "Rafael Sepúlveda" wrote: > > How can I make a value of a variable be seen by another file that lies > on tha same folder than the first one? > > I need this because I need a variable in each file describing who did > that page, but the display of that variable is on the > standard_

Re: [Zope] Two inquiries

Hi Manuel ! "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) Gerente de desarrollo Alpha Omega Creative Solutions http://www.alomega.com/" wrote: > > Hey there people, > > First, the customary thanks for such a great product. > Second - I have two problems. First one is that I got > zope compiled for linux then insta

Re: [Zope] [Q] Generating a dynamic navigation bar...

Hi Sudhakar ! Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > Questions: > > 1. The problem with this DTML method is that all the DTML Documents and > Folders are represented as a link in the nav bar. I want to build > intelligence into this DTML method to make the tab / cell for the current > document just textual

Re: [Zope] Property problem - still the same...

Hi Lars ! Lars Heber wrote: > I was told to use ZClasses, and I read a lot of documentation about it. > But I found out that this isn't the thing I was searching for. Why not use ZClasses ? Look at the ZDP-Tools, and your problems of displaying the header differently depending upon the meta_type

Re: [Zope] newbie:zclasses within zclasses (down the hill)

Hi Sven ! > The constructor_site is on the top level of the website and he doesn't know > the folders downside.How to solve the problem???Please help me because it's > only two days to finish everything. This is the right syntax: Regards, Maik -- Uzopia - Digging la vida Zopa - http://u

Re: [Zope] Passing parameters to methods - how to?

Hi Cesar ! > Clicking in the "submit" button, it gives me an error, telling that > 'username' is not defined. So I included an hidden field with > name="username" and value="", but I'm thinking this > is not the better way to do that... > > Can someone helps me? To my knowledge, it's the only w

Re: [Zope] handling date properties in

Hi ! seb wrote: > > Hi, > > > ... I want to display only those jobs > > for which the current date is on or after the 'date_posted' and on or > > before 'offer_expires'. I've tried a bunch of things, but haven't hit upon > > the winning answer. Any takers? > > Try > > > > > Job

Re: [Zope] Z class complexities

Hi Nolan ! Nolan Darilek wrote: > > I'm having a kinda complex problem, and hopefully my explanation can > do it justice. :) > > I'm using zope to construct an XML document from the contents of a > folder. Basically, the folder's index.xml iterates through the > folder's contents, rendering eac

Re: [Zope] sendmail tag strangeness

Hi Scott ! Scott Burton wrote: > The problem is, I have to put in the recipient by hand. This method is > supposed to email a recipient after filling out a form so the recipient > has to be a variable. When I try using or &dtml-recipient; > or _[recipient] I still have errors or the SMTP log sh

Re: [Zope] ZClass, Product comparison

Hi Nestor ! "Nestor A. Diaz L." wrote: > > HI, thanks you for the latest answer on testing products, however i have a > doubt i know how to make ZClass however i think they are more restrictive, > can anyone telling me advantanges or disadvantes of using Zclass instead > of products? Have a loo

Re: [Zope] IMAP and Zope!

Hi ! Joachim Werner wrote: > > Thanks for the input I got! > > Just a small wrap-up of what I learned: > > - The NotMail and old IMAP Adapter code don't seem to be seriously used by >anybody > > - WorldPilot could be a solution, but it only if it was more modular. Ryan >Hughes promise

Re: [Zope] Stupid Installation Question Remains Unanswered

Hi ! Ben Ocean wrote: > > Well, actually, the REAME.txt doesn't say ANYTHING about how to install it. > It *does* refer to doc/INSTALL.txt, which, unfortunately, is nowhere to be > found: there is no directory called *doc* nor any INSTALL.txt file that I > can see. Here's what unzipped: > > drw

Re: [Zope] user property sheets

Hi Timothy ! Timothy Wilson wrote: > I think I've settled on a ZClass approach. From looking through the > ZDP-tools info (which looks great, but it probably overkill for what I'm > trying to do), The ZDP-Tools are rather simple and provide a generic framework for content management. > it loo