Re: Zope View Tutorial

Mike, 

Here is what I am trying to do.  I need to access information from the Plone database.   I am trying to implement the examples at http://developer.plone.org/members/member_basics.html#list-users-within-all-groups because we are primarily interested in user information at this time.   Here are some of the things I have been tasked to do:

- email blast to all editors in the site
- generate a report with names and email addresses for all editors
- generate a list of all groups with their editors listed.

 I have tried to build a view for this, but not sure how to proceed.  I worked through the developer.plone.org "Hello World" tutorial at https://developer.plone.org/reference_manuals/active/helloworld/index.html

I installed the product on my test site and got it to work for the tutorial.  I have also looked at the Professional Plone 4 Development book, and posted the question in the Nabble forum.  I understand the basic idea of a view,   but determining the interface, the class, and the python code to get the examples on http://developer.plone.org/members/member_basics.html#list-users-within-all-groups to work is something I just don't see yet.  I understand Zope browser views are an important part on Plone 4 and I need to understand how to use them, but I am frankly stuck.  I don't want to have to ask someone to build every one of these I need.  I need to get the principals down so I can build them on my own.  Any suggestions?

I have been working with Plone since 2006.   We made the jump from Plone 2.5.3 to Plone 4.1 last year.  I only know Python from what little I have used it in Plone.  I am working on that.  I don't have any experience with an object oriented programming language.  I have been programming web pages since 1998, mostly with ColdFusion and database applications since the 1990's with Visual Basic and SQL Server.  I am the web administrator for the College of Education at Penn State University.  You can see our site at http://www.ed.psu.edu.  

I am hoping that if I can understand views to add a tutorial to the http://developer.plone.org/members/member_basics.html#list-users-within-all-groups page.  I know of several administrators that would like to be able to do what I am doing, but have a similar background and are stuck as well.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Joseph E. Bigler
Web Administrator
Carrara Education Technology Center
[email protected]
814-865-1560
233B Chambers Building
University Park, PA 16802



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cullerton [mailto:plone-Jyq08SUepVWvlIlDamLRIwC/[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:43 AM
To: Joe Bigler
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Plone-docs] Zope View Tutorial

Hey Joe,

I don't know which tutorial you are referring to, but the Hello World tutorial has a secion of views.

https://developer.plone.org/reference_manuals/active/helloworld/index.html

If that's not what you are interested in, you can find all the tutorials listed at https://developer.plone.org/

Mike

On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Joe Bigler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am looking for the zope view tutorial referenced in the Plone 
> Developer Manual Documentation.  It is listed on page 77, section 1.2 
> Programming Plone in the latest version I have, April 03, 2013.
> 
> When I click on the link, it redirects me to 
> http://developer.plone.org/moved_content.html.  This tells me the 
> documentation has been moved to another location, but it doesn't list 
> where it is.  I tried checking the links on that page, but I could not find it.
> The link it originally went to is
> http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/borg/zope-3-views.
> 
> I have tried multiple searches, but cannot find it.  Can anyone help 
> with this or point me to a good zope view tutorial?
> 
> 
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