Stock Plone 2.1.x is doesn't have fill-slot mechanism for
portlets. This means a lot of manual work for us: Every portlet macro
you are going to use at your site must be manually modified to take the
advantage of the image frame template and fill-slots. I hope this will be
changed in the future versions of Plone and personally I am glad to
help in such a task. Plone's militaristic 90 degree corners give imago like Plone
was the content management system of 70s functional Soviet Russian. This might affect a bit in the harsh competition of modern CMS UIs.
You cannot always simply replace <div> definitions with <metal fill-slot> calls, since there are some restrictions how TAL handles variables. In fill-slot scope variables defined outside the call might not be valid and must be redeclared.
Here I have modified portlet_prefs (preference portlet as example). Changes are bolded.
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<html xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal"
xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"
i18n:domain="plone">
<body>
<metal:portlet define-macro="portlet"
tal:define="controlPanel python:modules['Products.CMFCore.utils'].getToolByName(here, 'portal_controlpanel');
groups python:controlPanel.getGroups('site');
getIconFor nocall:putils/getIconFor">
<dl class="portlet"
id="portlet-prefs">
<dt class="portletHeader"><span i18n:translate="heading_control_panel">Site Setup</span></dt>
<dd class="portletItem"
tal:repeat="group groups">
<strong tal:content="group/title"
i18n:translate="">Plone Configlet Group Title</strong>
<ul class="configlets" tal:define="configlets python:controlPanel.enumConfiglets(group=group['id'])">
<li tal:repeat="configlet configlets">
<a href=""
style="display: block;"
tal:attributes="href configlet/url"
tal:condition="configlet/visible">
<img src="" alt="" tal:attributes="src python:getIconFor('controlpanel',configlet['id']);
alt configlet/description"
i18n:attributes="alt"
tal:on-error="string:" />
<tal:configletname tal:content="configlet/name"
i18n:translate=""></tal:configletname>
</a>
</li>
<li tal:condition="not:configlets" i18n:translate="label_no_panels_available">
No Preference Panels available.
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</metal:portlet>
</body>
</html>
| <html xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal"
xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"
i18n:domain="plone">
<body>
<div metal:define-macro="portlet">
<div metal:use-macro="here/portlet_slot/macros/portlet">
<dl class="portlet" id="portlet-prefs">
<div metal:fill-slot="portlet-header" class="portletHeader">
<span i18n:translate="heading_control_panel">Site Setup</span>
</div>
<div metal:fill-slot="portlet-body" class="portletContentArea"
tal:define="controlPanel python:modules['Products.CMFCore.utils'].getToolByName(here, 'portal_controlpanel');
groups python:controlPanel.getGroups('site');
getIconFor nocall:putils/getIconFor">
<div class="portletItemSingle"
tal:repeat="group groups">
<strong tal:content="group/title"
i18n:translate="">Plone Configlet Group Title</strong>
<ul class="configlets" tal:define="configlets python:controlPanel.enumConfiglets(group=group['id'])">
<li tal:repeat="configlet configlets">
<a href=""
style="display: block;"
tal:attributes="href configlet/url"
tal:condition="configlet/visible">
<img src="" alt="" tal:attributes="src python:getIconFor('controlpanel',configlet['id']);
alt configlet/description"
i18n:attributes="alt"
tal:on-error="string:" />
<tal:configletname tal:content="configlet/name"
i18n:translate=""></tal:configletname>
</a>
</li>
<li tal:condition="not:configlets" i18n:translate="label_no_panels_available">
No Preference Panels available.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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