Site-wide Properties

by Mikko Ohtamaa — last modified May 27, 2009 01:19 PM

Site-wide properties available at the properties tool.

Plone uses the properties tool's sheet site_properties to store some site-wide settings.

They can be set using GenericSetup throught the propertiestool.xml file. Check the CMFPlone/profiles/default/propertiestool.xml file for an example.

Title	Default Value	Type	Desccription
allowAnonymousViewAbout	False	boolean	If False, only logged-in users will be able to view information about who created an item and when it was modified.
localTimeFormat	%b %d, %Y	string	Format to be used when displaying dates in short notation (e.g. without hours and minutes). It should follow the syntax as specified by Python's time.strftime. To know more, read the Python documentation for time.strftime.
localLongTimeFormat	%b %d, %Y %I:%M %p	string	Similar to `localTimeFormat` but including more information (e.g. with hours and minutes).
default_language	en	string	The default language for the site's content.
default_charset	utf-8	string	The default charset in which the site's content is encoded.
use_folder_tabs		lines	List of content types that should include the 'contents' view. Not used in Plone 3.
ext_editor	False	boolean	If True, an icon will be made visible on each page, to allow the user to edit content using an external editor. This requires an additional application called ExternalEditor to be installed on the client workstation.
available_editors	None Kupu	lines	List of available editors that the users are able to select.
allowRolesToAddKeywords	Manager Reviewer	lines	Roles allowed to add new keywords/categories when editing content.
auth_cookie_length	0	int	Length of the authorization cookie.
calendar_starting_year	2001	int	The starting year to show in the calendar widget.
calendar_future_years_available		int	The number of future years, after the current year, to show in the calendar widget.
invalid_ids	actions	lines	Invalid ids for content created in Plone.
default_page	index_html index.html index.htm FrontPage	lines	Attributes or object ids that, if available, should be used as default page.
search_results_description_length		int	Length of the description to be included in search results listings. For items with a longer description, text will be cropped.
ellipsis	...	string	The ellipsis that will be added at the end of the cropped description in search results listings.
typesLinkToFolderContentsInFC	Large Plone Folder Folder	lines	Content types that should link to its 'contents' view, when listed in a 'contents' view.
visible_ids	False	boolean	If True, users will be able to set the ids for content items. If False, the ids will be generated automatically based on the normalized version of the title.
exposeDCMetaTags	False	boolean	If enabled, Plone will include Dublin Core metadata information at the HTML header.
types_not_searched	ATBooleanCriterion ATDateCriteria ...	lines	List of content types whose instances won't be retrieved by search results.
disable_folder_sections	False	boolean	If True, the automatic site sections (portal tabs) generation will be disabled, so only actions in category `portal_tabs` will be included.
disable_nonfolderish_sections	False	boolean	If True, only folderish content items will be included in site sections.
typesUseViewActionInListings	Image File	lines	List of content types that should link to its 'view' action in content listings.
verify_login_name	True	boolean	If True, when login fails, users will get a specific answer, telling their login name field wasn't found or the password was incorrect. If False, users will only be told that the login failed.
many_users	False	boolean	If True, the Plone user management screen will be optimized for a large amount of users, allowing only to search instead of listing them all.
many_groups	False	boolean	If True, the Plone group management screen will be optimized for a large amount of groups, allowing only to search instead of listing them all.
enable_livesearch	True	boolean	When set to True, the global search box will show live results, only for browsers supporting javascript.
default_page_types	Topic	lines	The list of content types that can be used as default pages, so the user is able to selected them using the 'display' menu.
use_folder_contents	...	lines	Complementary to `use_folder_tabs`. Not used in Plone 3.
forbidden_contenttypes	text/structured text/restructured ...	lines	List of forbidden mimetypes that are not available in text areas. Mimetypes removed from this list will be available in text areas (e.g. page body). Only if the user isn't using Kupu, since it only supports HTML.
default_contenttype	text/html	string	Default mimetype for text areas.
enable_sitemap	False	boolean	Expose sitemap.xml.gz in the portal root according to the sitemaps.org standard.
number_of_days_to_keep	7	int	Indicates how many days of undo history should be kept.
enable_inline_editing	True	boolean	If True, enables the inline editing feature, allowing users to click directly in the field value and change it without accessing the edit form. Only for browsers supporting Javascript.
enable_link_integrity_checks	True	boolean	If True, users will get warnings when they delete or move content that is linked from other content available in the site.
webstats_js		string	Intended for code snippets from external providers. It will be included in the rendered HTML as entered near the end of the page. It can be used to enable web statistics support from external providers (e.g. Google Analytics).
external_links_open_new_window	False	string	If True, all external links in the content region will open in a new window. Only for browsers supporting Javascript.
icon_visibility	enabled	string	If 'disabled', content icons won't be shown in listings; if 'authenticated', content icons will be visible only for authenticated users; if 'enabled' content icons will be visible for all users.