[Zope] setting flags

[Cliff Ford]

For clarity, and the benefit of any newbies, index_html says this:

<dtml-comment>
     If you want to integrate MessageBoard in your product you must set
     'integrated' flag to 1.
     If MessageBoard's flag 'integrated' is set to 1, then all dtml 
files will not include
     'standard_html_header' and 'standard_html_footer'. Instead will 
include some other 2 files:
     'integrated_html_header' and 'integrated_html_footer'.
     In your product (the one who integrates MessageBoard) you must have 
2 dtml files:
         - integrated_html_header
         - integrated_html_footer
</dtml-comment>

The 'integrated' flag is actually set to 0 in the MessageBoard constructor:

def manage_addMessageBoard(self, id, title='',description='', 
filesize=500000, mailhost='', integrated=0, REQUEST=None):

and the user does not get any opportunity to set it to 1 (it is not in 
the list of visible Properties). So if you want to use your own Header 
and Footer, as a quick fix you can just change integrated to 1 in the 
constructor (i.e. edit MessageBoard.py). [It might be better to have 
integrated in the constructor form - depends whether you expect your 
site to have multiple boards with different characteristics.] Make sure 
you have the integrated_html_header and integrated_html_footer methods
or you will get key errors. Just copy the standard header and footer as 
a starter.

Cliff Ford

John Poltorak wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:12:25PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> 
>>John Poltorak wrote at 2004-9-29 19:56 +0100:
>>
>>>I've just installed a Zope message board and am trying to get it working 
>>>but get 'Resource not found' errors when trying to add a msg.
>>>
>>>I think the security is set up correctly, but the problem may be due to 
>>>the 'integrated' flag not being set to 1...
>>>
>>>index_html says:-
>>>
>>>   If you want to integrate MessageBoard in your product you must set
>>>   'integrated' flag to 1.
>>>
>>>How/where do I set it to 1?
>>>
>>>I realise this will probably be in the Zope docs somewhere but have no 
>>>idea what I should look for.
>>
>>You may feel offended, but:
>>
>>  You tell us about "some Zope message board" and hide which one...
>>  You should have been aware that this hiding prevents reliable
>>  suggestions...
>>
>>  You tell us that this message board requires to
>>  set the "integrated" flag. This surely means *its* integrated
>>  flag.
>>  How you set this flag does not depend on Zope (it does not know
>>  anything about this "integrated" flag).
>>  How you can set it depends on how this message board is integrated.
>>  If it is integrated via inheritance, then overriding the
>>  flag in the deriving class will probably work.
>>  But, there are other ways of integration -- and we know
>>  too little about your "some message board"...
> 
> 
> At the time I wrote the msg I was only aware of a single message board 
> product for Zope and it is called MessageBoard. This is the one:-
> 
> http://zope.org/Members/EIONET/MessageBoard
> 
> As a newbie I'm not sure what 'integrated' means... If I have a simple 
> link from a menu to "messageboard" which points to the messageoard folder,  
> does that constitute integrated?
>  
> 
>>Keep in mind that you can only expect as good responses as
>>your questions are good.
>>
>>-- 
>>Dieter
> 
>