Re: Plone Migration from 2.1.4 to 2.5.3 breaks news items

Daniel Melnechuk wrote:

> Just found out that news items went south in the migration from 2.0.x  
> to 2.1.4. The news portlet would show them BUT when you click on them  i 
> get the same error as above. So my troubles actually started in the  
> migration to 2.1 from 2.0. Maybe i should try a migration from 2.0 to  
> 2.5? There was something about moving events and news folders from  root 
> when going from 2.0 to 2.1. Maybe that is it?
> 
> Any thoughts? Anyone else ever have news objects go bad on a migration?
> 

Dan,
   In case you're still struggling 1 week later, have you thoroughly 
read this helpful page? :

http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide/version/2.0-2.1

I strongly suggest get the 2.1.4 site thoroughly working before 
expecting any joy with the 2.1.4->2.5.3 migration.

Common problems include out of date customisations that need 
recustomising, 3rd-party products that don't play well with the next 
version of Plone.

Other than that, unfortunately the best thing is to use the debugger to 
find out why its throwing that attribute error. Google "debug zope". 
Debugging is intimidating at first but a valuable learning experience. 

Regards,

2.0.x to 2.1.x breaks news items if you don't move folder from root! (Was: Plone Migration from 2.1.4 to 2.5.3 breaks news items)

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the follow up email. I just finally finished the migration  
from 2.0.4. to 2.1.4 to 2.5.3 and news items and event items are all  
fine! I was away for a short while and left this migration issue to  
perk for a few days. I then went back to the install guide for  
migration from 2.0 to 2.1 as you have linked below and there is a  
really clear note under the "Common problems and issues" section as  
follows:

If you have an item with the short name events or news in the root of  
your site, they should be renamed before starting the migration -  
since this can cause problems with the migration to the new Smart  
Folders that list these.

Well i started over with a fresh Data.fs (can't emphasize keeping a  
clean backup of what you are trying to migrate) and after bringing up  
under 2.1, i renamed the "news" and "events" folders in the root of  
the plone object. Then i went and did the migration with success. (I  
will someday have to get into the debugging but so far i have  
successfully avoided.)

Also to note, this was a plain vanilla install of Plone so no 3rd  
party items had to be dealt with. There were however a few "custom"  
skin items that had to be renamed so they wouldn't be loaded since  
they were breaking the site and even keeping it from loading in 2.5.  
So thanks for the heads up on that.

On a general issue about migration and news items, when i wound up in  
2.5.3, all the news items were no longer Published. So i had to  

Re: 2.0.x to 2.1.x breaks news items if you don't move folder from root! (Was: Plone Migration from 2.1.4 to 2.5.3 breaks news items)

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:17:41 -0700, Daniel Melnechuk  
<isis@...> wrote:

> On a general issue about migration and news items, when i wound up in  
> 2.5.3, all the news items were no longer Published. So i had to publish  
> them to have them show up. BUT, the act of publishing changes the  
> modified date which in turn changes the way they are presented in the  
> portal and in the default news item viewer. Was there anything that  
> could have been done to have the news items come across as already  
> published and the modified date kept the same? Or run some python script  
> to publish them all WITHOUT changing the modified date?

This shouldn't have happened, but yes — you could have written a script  
that just published them again. Using Plone from the UI is what sets the  
publication date explicitly, if you do it from a script, this isn't  
changed.

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e-mail settings for local use of Plone 3.0.1 on MacOS 10.4.10

Hello,

I'm absolutely Newbie in Plone. I would like to make the first steps local on my PowerBook. The installation
is ok. With the admin I can enter and explore all the features.

But I would like to learn handling the content not as admin but as user with different rights. So I tried to
create a new user but I can't finish the sign-on process. I get the error-message:
Failed to create your account: we were unable to send your password to your email address: (61, 'Connection
refused'). I'm not familiar with setup mailservers and similar things.

I think my e-mail settings are wrong. I am very happy, if someone can tell me the values I have to set for
- Mail server: SMTP server, SMTP port (ESMTP username and password I think they will remain empty)
- Mail sender : Site 'From' name and Site 'From' addres.

Thanks in advance
Gilberto Zappatini
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using Plone as user instead ot the admin on MacOS 10.4.10

Hello,

my Mac is configurated in an «admin» an user «ggz». At the moment I'm only capable to use Plone as
«admin» but not as «ggz». The folder "Plone-3.0.1" is part of the application-folder. The user
«ggz» doesn't have all rights like the admin, but I could change it, if it's necessary.

I tried to put the folder "Plone-3.0.1" in the folder /Users/Shared/Plone-3.0.1 - but I don't find the
right way to give a promt in the terminal.

Is it possible to run Plone also as user?

It's very annoying to change all the time from admin zu ggz - because mail and all documents are on ggz.

Thank you very much for your help
Gilberto Zappatini
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Re: e-mail settings for local use of Plone 3.0.1 on MacOS 10.4.10

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Re: using Plone as user instead ot the admin on MacOS 10.4.10

Yes, use the Unified Installer in non-root mode. I think the GUI installer  
for OS X still insists on creating a separate user.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:37:30 -0700, gilberto zappatini  
<gilberto.zappatini@...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> my Mac is configurated in an «admin» an user «ggz». At the moment I'm  
> only capable to use Plone as «admin» but not as «ggz». The folder  
> "Plone-3.0.1" is part of the application-folder. The user «ggz» doesn't  
> have all rights like the admin, but I could change it, if it's necessary.
>
> I tried to put the folder "Plone-3.0.1" in the folder  
> /Users/Shared/Plone-3.0.1 - but I don't find the right way to give a  
> promt in the terminal.
>
> Is it possible to run Plone also as user?
>
> It's very annoying to change all the time from admin zu ggz - because  
> mail and all documents are on ggz.
>
> Thank you very much for your help
> Gilberto Zappatini
> --
>
> gilberto zappatini
> zappatini gmbh, ludwigstr. 8, CH-9010 st.gallen
>
> telefon	+41 71 244 41 71
> fax	+41 71 244 41 72
> web	http://www.zappatini.com
>

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Re: using Plone as user instead ot the admin on MacOS 10.4.10

I downloaded Plone from http://plone.org/products/plone and used the installer of this package. I was
never asked to specify something spezial.

I found the solution: At first I have to start Plone in the Mac OSX user «admin» via terminal. Then changing
to the Mac OSX user «ggz» and open my locsl Plone-site via browser http://localhost:8080/Plone.

Now I can work with every defined Plone-user included the Plone-admin in my working-area.

Thanks for responding.
Gilberto

>Yes, use the Unified Installer in non-root mode. I think the GUI installer for OS X still insists on
creating a separate user.
>
>On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:37:30 -0700, gilberto zappatini <gilberto.zappatini <at> zappatini.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>my Mac is configurated in an «admin» an user «ggz». At the moment I'm only capable to use Plone as
«admin» but not as «ggz». The folder "Plone-3.0.1" is part of the application-folder. The user
«ggz» doesn't have all rights like the admin, but I could change it, if it's necessary.
>>
>>I tried to put the folder "Plone-3.0.1" in the folder /Users/Shared/Plone-3.0.1 - but I don't find the
right way to give a promt in the terminal.
>>
>>Is it possible to run Plone also as user?
>>
>>It's very annoying to change all the time from admin zu ggz - because mail and all documents are on ggz.
>>
>>Thank you very much for your help
>>Gilberto Zappatini
>>--
>>
>>gilberto zappatini
>>zappatini gmbh, ludwigstr. 8, CH-9010 st.gallen
>>
>>telefon	+41 71 244 41 71
>>fax	+41 71 244 41 72
>>web	http://www.zappatini.com
>>
>
>
>
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>
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