Plone ArchGenXML two way references - plone

in a Plone Site, I have got a Professor and a Department class. They are bidirectionally m:n. I am using ArgoUML and ArchGenXML to generate these classes - how can I make this relation navigable, so that I can get not only to a professor's departments, but also to a department's professors in a view? The way I am doing it seems to generate classes so, that I can navigate from Professor to Department, but in the Department schema, no such link is created...
Thanks!
schema = Schema(( #professor
StringField(
name='name',
widget=StringField._properties['widget'](
label='Name',
label_msgid='ufscar_label_name',
i18n_domain='ufscar',
),
),
ReferenceField(
name='departments',
widget=ReferenceBrowserWidget(
label='Departments',
label_msgid='ufscar_label_departments',
i18n_domain='ufscar',
),
allowed_types=('Department',),
multiValued=1,
relationship='DepartmentMembership',
),
)
and
schema = Schema(( #department
StringField(
name='name',
widget=StringField._properties['widget'](
label='Name',
label_msgid='ufscar_label_name',
i18n_domain='ufscar',
),
),
)
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Sorry, cannot format in the comments, so I'll ask here:
The Products.ATBackRef 2.1 page says
in your UML tool create a relation between 2 classes and make the
'to' end of i the assocation navigable (such a beast is provided in
the sample dir).
I guess this the default, both ends are navigateable
add the tagged value backreferences_support to your model and set
it to 1.
The model being the class? Or create an attribute for that? Or the relation? I am confused... By setting it to one, how would it know which back reference to navigate? There could be more than one...

You want to use BackReferenceField. References are directional, which is to say one object points to another and going the other direction is not the same. The reference engine can, however, do that reverse lookup using back references. A BackReferenceField lets you use that.

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DiagnosticOrder.Item - How should I incorporate other attributes

In our system , DiagnosticOrder.Item has many attributes. Example,
1. Code
2. Name
3. Parent Code
4. Problem with the code
5. Automatically added code ... and many more.
Seems to me , it will be more appropriate to create a new resource here. I see that DiagnosticOrder.Item is a backbone element.
Question is , should I create a new resource or should I use extension here for DiagnosticOrder.Item?
I am more inclined to create a new resource - but not sure how to create one ? If I have to create one , can you please guide me to create a new resource ?
At the moment, creating your own resource is non-compliant, though you could profile the Basic resource. What you're looking for sounds like an extension to me, though you could also look at DataElement.

RssDisplay Extension / Simple Pie

I'm just a little desperate.
I installed the RSS Display extension.
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/rss_display
Everything works fine, but I have just a little understanding problem.
I pull myself with fluid the Author for the current feed.
<feed:item.get value="author"/>
Than i look whats inside.
<f:debug><feed:item.get value="author"/></f:debug>
Thats the result.
SimplePie_Author prototype object
name => 'Name Name' (12 chars)
link => NULL
email => NULL
So what i need it's to get the name of the author.
Unfortunately i am not able to get the value.
I am really new in Fluid, Typo3.
Hopefully someone can help me.
One way to do this, is to create a fluid variable author and assign the author object to it. Then you can access the name using {author.name}.
To create a variable, you could use the ViewHelper <f:alias>, like this:
<f:alias map="{author: '{feed:item.get(value: \'author\')}'}">
{author.name}
</f:alias>
Another way would be to use the extension "vhs", which provides many tools for use with fluid. One of these tools is the ViewHelper <v:variable.set>, which could be used like this:
<v:variable.set name="author" value="{feed:item.get(value: 'author\'}"/>
{author.name}
This has the advantage that you don't need to use the variable within the tags of the ViewHelper.
There are other ways to reach the same goal, without defining variables, but this seems to be the easiest one to me.

lotus public variable in formula

once again I have to ask you for a help.
I have a problem with creating public variable and using it in formula.
The details of this issue is:
1, right after starting a Lotus Notes Application i have to create public variable EmpNum which will be contain an employee number (the number will be imported from IBM Blue Pages)
2, this EmpNum variable will be used to filter the data in a view, so I have to use it in formula in View Selection.
I'll be very grateful if you help with this issue.
Maybe there is possible any simplest solution of this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Tomasz (td2003)
EDIT:
Torsten, Panu, thank you.
I've decided to try write an EmpNum variable in notes.ini using #SetEnvironment and read it by #GetEnvironment, and it works.
BUT (!) there is a very strange thing:
1) when I entered formula "SELECT((form="ITForm") & (Status="Completed") & (TX_EmployeeNumber=#Environment("EmpNum")))" the view shows me all document where "TX_EmployeeNumber" is EMPTY;
2) otherwise when I entered formula "SELECT((form="ITForm") & (Status="Completed") & (TX_EmployeeNumber!=#Environment("EmpNum")))" (not equal) the view shows me all document where "TX_EmployeeNumber" is NOT EMPTY and no matter if TX_EmployeeNumber have exactly the same value as EmpNum.
For example: if EmpNum="P11" the view with 2nd formula shows the documents where TX_EmployeeNumber fields contains "P11", "P22", "A32" and so on.
I'm sure that #Environment("EmpNum") retrieves correct data from notes.ini.
I'm totally confused and completely don't know what's going on.
Do you have any idea about this?
First of all: There are NO public variables in Lotus Notes as you request it. Neither in LotusScript nor in Formula. Every variable just lives in its context, never in the complete client.
There are two places to put such a variable:
in the notes.ini, where you can set / read it using Formula (#Environment, #SetEnvironment, #getEnvironent) or LotusScript (NotesSession.GetEnvironmentString, NotesSession.SetEnvironmentVar).
In a Profile document in a database, where you can get it using #GetProfileField (Formula) or NotesDatabase.GetprofileDocument() (LotusScript)
Both of these approches will NOT help you for your number 2.
There is only ONE View- Selection- Formula for ALL Users. Putting something "userspecific" in there will let it render correctly for ONE value (the one, that the server uses when building the view- index), but not for all the others.
To solve your problem you can use:
a) An embedded View
A view that is categorized by empNum
A Form that has this view embedded and a Formula for "Show single category" for this embedded view set
b) A SPOFU view
SPOFU is "Shared, private on first use" and means, that every user has his own copy of the view. These views have some caveats and are hard to maintain. You should NOT use them, if you are not totally aware of the implications (getting the ACL right is one very important thing for these views)...
EDIT (due to change in question): SPOFU will neither work with Environment nor with Profile- documents, as the methods to read them are not supported in Views... So b) is not really an option... Sorry...
It is possible to use the #SetViewInfo formula in the QueryOpen and/or PostOpen of a view to get the view to only present data from one category. Be careful with this because you will need to touch EVERY view so that the value is cleared if the user navigates to a view which is not categorized by the employee num...
FWIW: I only have done this using #UserName not with another piece of data. I suggest you do that by having the import process add the fully qualified Notes name of the user to the documents as they are imported.
You can modify view selection formula with NotesView class. In this case you would have to use private views.
A better solution would be to use an XPage to show the view and use category filter. Or if you want to use traditional style then embed the view to a form or page and use "Show Single Category" feature.

Migrating from (now obsolete) custom ATImage content type

We had a whole collection of Plone 3 sites with a custom Image type
subclassed from ATImage. This allowed us to add an extra image scaling to the
standard list ("'logo':(454, 58)", used by our theme package).
While this still works in Plone 4, it isn't really the correct approach now that
plone.app.imaging is part of the standard toolkit. That can define custom scales on
the fly.
It looks like I can enable plone.app.imaging on any type subclassed
from ATImage by simply setting "sizes = None" for the collection of custom
scales on the type. I am however then left with a redundant subclass of ATImage.
Looking long term, it would be useful to replace all of our existing "FalconImage"
content items (hundreds in total) with standard "Image" content items.
A brief experiment on a test site reveals that if I just walk through the document
tree updating the portal_type attribute from "FalconImage" to "Image" then
the content behaves as an "Image": each object suddenly acquires a
Transform tab and all of the scales defined by ##imaging-controlpanel.
I am sure that there would be fallout from such a brute force approach.
Is there a recommended approach for transforming one type into another?
(I'm happy to add source for our custom ATImage type if anyone thinks that
it is relevant. It is really just a very minimal tweak of ATImage, with a
different collection of sizes on the ImageField)
Yes, there is a recommended approach:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.contentmigration
The only thing that you have to do is to write a custom migration from FalconImage to Image.
Bye,
Giacomo
You need to use Products.contentmigration but the docs there are no place to start. Use the docs at plone.org for a step-by-step on migrating content.
Thanks to Giacomo and Ross for the pointers.
Just in case it is useful to others, my migration code ended up looking like the following:
from Products.contentmigration.walker import CustomQueryWalker
from Products.contentmigration.archetypes import InplaceATItemMigrator
class FalconImageMigrator(InplaceATItemMigrator):
walker = CustomQueryWalker
src_meta_type = "FalconImage"
src_portal_type = "FalconImage"
dst_meta_type = "ATBlob"
dst_portal_type = "Image"
# Following stolen from plone.app.blob.migrations, ATImageToBlobImageMigrator
# migrate all fields except 'image', which needs special handling...
fields_map = {
'image': None,
}
def migrate_data(self):
self.new.getField('image').getMutator(self.new)(self.old)
# ATFileToBlobMigrator reindexes certain fields. Otherwise we
# need to clear and rebuild the entire catalog.
def last_migrate_reindex(self):
self.new.reindexObject(idxs=['object_provides', 'portal_type',
'Type', 'UID'])
migrator = FalconImageMigrator
walker = migrator.walker(portal, FalconImageMigrator)
walker.go()
print walker.getOutput()
Complications:
Image is a little odd as a destination type, as data gets migrated into the blob store.
We need to update the catalog so that "resolveuid/UID" links generated by TinyMCE
continue to work. last_migrate_reindex() method on Migrator class should be faster than clearing and rebuilding the entire catalog from scratch.

How to find which menu a node belongs to in drupal

I currently have nodes setup on my site, and each node belongs to a particular menu (not primary or secondary prebuilt menues).
How can i find out which menu a node belongs to?
Maybe this is what you mean:
$trail = menu_get_active_trail();
$lastInTrail = end($trail);
$menu_name = $lastInTrail['menu_name'];
menu_get_active_trail() returns a breadcrumbs like array, the last breadcrumb represents the current node.
Cheers,
Laurens Meurs, Rotterdam
I'm a noob, so don't bash me if what I'm going to write is worthless babbling.
I think you can't do that directly, unless there's some smart module out there that would do all the nasty SQL queries necessary to check this.
Node info is stored in the SQL table "node", and is identified merely by NID (node ID, which is the node number that appears after /?q=node/ in the address). Their aliases, if any, are stored in "url_alias" table, where you can find columns "src" and "dst", identifying the original and the aliased path (for instance, src='node/123', dst='my/url/alias'). The menu links can be found in the table "menu_links", where you can find the columns "menu_name" (the machine-radable name of a menu) and "link_path" (either the node/... or the alias).
So, what you'd need to do is the following:
get the current node's NID
query "url_alias" if there's an alias for node/NID and retrieve it, otherwise leave node/NID
query the "menu_links" table for the path you've determined and retrieve "none" or the menu's machine-readable name
You could then also query the table "menu_custom" to check what's the human-readable name of the menu you've determined.
Anyway, that's a complicated query (several queries?) and I'm a MySQL ignorant, so I can't help you with the actual code you'll need to use to check all that :P.
This isn't a direct solution and I see from your reply to a previous answer that you didn't wanted the simplest solution possible, but I thought I'd mention this option. The Menu Node API module maintains a table which Drupal lacks, a node-menu relationship table.
The module does nothing on its own, but there seems to be contributed modules which build on this, so depending on how complex your problem is it might be a starting point.
http://drupal.org/node/584984
Updated: Sorry guys, didn't even realize I had posted this link. I think I intended it as a draft and simply posted it when closing tabs. That said, mingos (above) is right on.
My link is to a function menu_get_active_menu_name() that appears to provide you with an array containing the active menu for the current page. As I presume that is what you are using it for, it would be a nice way to abstract yourself away from the database calls that might cause problems down the line.
I myself have never tried it, which is probably why I didn't elaborate and post. well... at least didn't post on purpose.

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