Introduction

I saw (on AugustSprint) that there was a need to create this page (and a page for how to use getpaid.formgen, but one thing at a time!). Because getpaid.formgen is not available as an egg yet (as of January 2009), getting it can be a little challenging. I hope this saves you some time!

Details

Because getpaid.formgen is not available as an egg yet, you need to find some way to get the code. You can either

• checkout getpaid.formgen from this repository anonymously: svn co http://getpaid.googlecode.com/svn/getpaid.formgen/trunk/src getpaid.formgen (untested)
• checkout getpaid.formgen from this repository securely (i.e., with Write access) by contacting someone and using: svn co http://getpaid.googlecode.com/svn/getpaid.formgen/trunk/src getpaid.formgen

Now, you need to let your instance know about the code.

If you're not using Buildout: (untested)

1. Because getpaid.formgen is not in the magic "Products" namespace, you have to copy or link the files under zope2/lib/python/getpaid/formgen.
2. cd my-site-path/zope2/lib/python.
3. ls getpaid. See if there's already a getpaid folder (there probably is).
4. If there is, cd getpaid. Else, mkdir getpaid; cd getpaid.
5. To link: ln -s path-to-svn-checkout/getpaid.formgen/getpaid/formgen ./formgen. To copy: cp -R path-to-svn-checkout/getpaid.formgen/getpaid/formgen/* ./formgen.
6. getpaid.formgen depends on Products.DataGridField. Get it here: http://plone.org/products/datagridfield.

If you're using Buildout:

1. You can use getpaid.formgen as a development egg by copying or linking the files under src/.
2. cd buildout-path/src.
3. To link: ln -s path-to-svn-checkout/getpaid.formgen ./getpaid.formgen. To copy (untested): cp -R path-to-svn-checkout/getpaid.formgen ./getpaid.formgen.
4. cd .. to get to your buildout root again.
5. edit your buildout.cfg with something like nano buildout.cfg and make the following additions:
[buildout]
eggs =
    getpaid.formgen
develop = 
   src/getpaid.formgen

[instance]
zcml =
    getpaid.formgen

• That is, if you don't have a list of eggs in the [buildout] part of your buildout.cfg, add it with getpaid.formgen as a value. If you have it, add getpaid.formgen to the list of values. [instance] is what my plone.recipe section is called; yours may be different.
6. ./bin/buildout -vvvv
• You can't simply run ./bin/buildout -No because getpaid.formgen will tell zc.buildout to grab Products.DataGridField for you.

Finally, fire up your instance.

You should see getpaid.formgen listed in mydomain:myport/Control_Panel/Products/manage_main and mydomain:myport/mySite/portal_quickinstaller/manage_installProductsForm

Install the product.

Also, install DataGridField.