On May 7, 2007 01:07:52 pm Robert Norman wrote: > Hi again, > I'm trying to learn Zope through the Web Component Development book and > find myself stuck implementing simple views. This was posted earlier but > and I've worked on it since but feel totally unable to proceed. > > I'm working on WinXP. I can manipulate simple persistant objects using > debugzope. The objects are listed in the ZMI. However I can't do anything > with the views supplied as part of the example code. For example, under > debugzope , following the instructions in the text, if I try to examine the > supplied view with: > > view = getMultiAdapter((lasagne, request), name=u'index.html') > > I get a lookup error. Both lasagne, and request are valid objects. Also, > from my browser even though the ZMI shows my objects, any attempt to view > them fails. Apparently my view is not being registered. A line does exists > in the configuration file that points to the folder containing the view... > > <include package=".browser" /> > > This is all code supplied by the book pasted in from the web site -- I > don't have the depth of knowledge of Zope yet to figure this out. > > I've tried re-installing Zope. I did a clean install of Zope with a new > instance on a different machine (also WinXP) and get the same result. > > The browser folder contains a configuration file pointing to the supplied > view with name="index.html". > Where do I go from here? I'd like to know what's wrong, but more > importantly, I'd like to know how to go about finding out what's wrong > without having to resort to this list. > > Thanks in advance... > Robert
Does the zope server spit out any errors when you try to view these objects from a browser? If so, paste them here, they may help. Greg _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
