Extension profile does not change any properties

[Martin Aspeli]

Jinshi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am reading Martin Aspeli's new book and I find it is very helpful even 
> for plone-newbie like me. Finally I have the feeling of "that makes sense"!

I'm glad. :)

By the way - plone-user would probably be am ore appropriate mailing 
list for this type of question, but don't worry.

> Not surprisingly, I still have plenty questions. Here is one of them. I 
> created profiles/default/properties.xml and I am trying to change the 
> site title and description. I also updated the configure.zcml file in my 
> product to use extension profile. If you read that book, I just did what 
> is described in Chapter 5. Then I run a test to see if I changed the 
> title: self.portal.getProperty('title'). But it is still "Plone site".

Does it work if you start up Plone and install it through portal_setup? 
If so, it's a problem with your test setup (in tests/base.py, if you're 
following the conventions int he book). If not, then you'll need to 
paste your code (configure.zcml, properties.xml at a minimum).

> The plone test site started fine with just a couple deprecation warning. 
> Does anyone have any idea how I can figure the problem out? And in 
> general how do I debug profile and zcml? Here, say how do I check if my 
> extension profile is used? What commands can I use in the pdb?

If it shows up in portal_setup, then at least your product registers 
(you didn't forget the ZCML slug, did you?) and portal_setup finds it.

Martin

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