Installing Formulator

Requirements

Formulator should work with Zope versions 2.5 or higher:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope

For reading in forms as XML you need to have minidom installed; this should come with a normal python 2.1 distribution. This is not required to use Formulator, however.

Upgrading

to 1.4.2 from earlier versions

There should be no problems.

to 1.4.1 from earlier versions

There should be no problems.

to 1.4.0 from earlier versions

There should be no problems.

to 1.3.1 from earlier versions

There should be no problems (see note for 0.9.2 though in the unusual case you're upgrading from that..this is the last time I'll mention it :).

to 1.3.0 from earlier versions

There should be no problems, but see the note if you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below (but I'd be surprised if you were!).

to 1.2.0 from earlier versions

There should be no problems, but see the note if you're upgrading from version 0.9.2 or below.

to 1.1.0 from earlier versions

There should be no problems. If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below however, please see the upgrading note for 0.9.3. Do note that the Override tab is scheduled to be phased out eventually in favor of the TALES tab. This will take a while yet, though.

to 1.0.9 from earlier versions

There should be no problems. If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below however, please see the upgrading note for 0.9.3. Do note that the Override tab is scheduled to be phased out eventually in favor of the TALES tab. This will take a while yet, though.

to 1.0.1 from earlier versions

There should be no problems. If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below, please see the upgrading note for 0.9.3.

to 1.0 from earlier versions

There should be no problems. If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below, please see the upgrading note for 0.9.3.

to 0.9.5 from earlier versions

There should be no problems in upgrading from 0.9.4 or 0.9.3. If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below, see the upgrading note for 0.9.3.

to 0.9.4 from earlier versions

There should be no problems in upgrading from 0.9.3.

If you're upgrading from 0.9.2 or below, see the upgrading note for 0.9.3.

to 0.9.3 from earlier versions

items_method in ListField is gone; you'll have to adjust make your forms use items in the override tab now instead. Sorry about that, it was marked experimental. :)

There should be no other problems in upgrading.

to 0.9.2 from earlier versions

There should be no significant upgrade problems; your forms should still work. RangedIntegerFields should show up as IntegerFields, which subsume their functionality.

to 0.9.1 from earlier versions

There should be no significant upgrade problems; your forms should still work.

Quickstart

Formulator follows the normal Zope filesystem product installation procedure; just unpack the tarball to your products directory and restart Zope.

Now the same at a more leisurely pace.

Unpacking

Formulator comes as a Formulator-x.x.tgz file, where x.x stands for the Formulator version number. On Unix, you can use:

      tar xvzf Formulator-x.x.tgz 

to unpack the file. On Windows you can use your favorite archiving software, such as WinZip.

This will create a Formulator directory.

Installing the Product

Move this directory to your Zope's Products directory. Normally this is yourzope/lib/python/Products.

Now restart your Zope.

Verifying Installation

If all went well, Formulator should now be visible in Zope in the Products screen (/Control_Panel/Products). In a Zope folder, you should now see a Formulator Form in your Add list. You should be able to add a form to a folder now.