[Zope] Parameter generating an exception? (also recatalogingissue)

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Schmidt Sr." <aschmidt at fredericksburg.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Parameter generating an exception? (also 
recatalogingissue)


>I will bounce this out since I tried this recently while testing an 
>upgrade.
>
> We are on 2.7.5 and our 200K+ news articles are all ZClass objects and are 
> cataloged. We setup a 2.8.6 instance and made sure all Products, 
> Extension, etc. were the same. Copied our Data.fs and brought up the 
> instance. I could browse around the site fine until I did anything that 
> utilized the catalog to look up the news articles. Did not find anything. 
> I could navigate directly to an article and it displayed fine.
>
> I then tried to clear the catalog and find objects of the zclass 
> type....it found nothing.
>
> This has been a rather large stumbling block to us upgrading.
>
> Any ideas? No rush...no emergency ... but would like to upgrade sometime 
> soon hopefully.

Something changed in ZCatalog indexes between Zope 2.7 and 2.8, and you may 
be running in to a related problem.  Google for 'manage_convertIndexes' (you 
can also read the CHANGES.txt for Zope 2.8)

Jonathan