What is ATContentTypes?
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Plone Documentation Team
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last modified
Mar 14, 2009 01:41 PM
Contributors:
Mikko Ohtamma, Martin Aspeli, Kamon Ayeva, Israel Saeta Pérez
ATContentTypes is the Plone core product that provides the default content types (since Plone 2.1).
One of the major changes introduced in Plone 2.1 was that the core content types (Page, Image, etc) were changed from being based on stock CMF types, to using Archetypes. The new core types are housed in the ATContentTypes product.
ATContentTypes introduces a number of base classes and tools that provide common "Plone-ish" behaviour. This includes things like support for the "display" menu and the "more..." menu and restrictions for the "add item" menu.
You can use ATContentTypes' base classes and tools in your own products. The RichDocument tutorial covers the core techniques, and is probably a good place to go when you have finished this reference.
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