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Site Root Properties

by Plone Documentation Team — last modified Feb 04, 2009 02:38 AM
Contributors: Mikko Ohtamma, Martin Aspeli, Kamon Ayeva, Israel Saeta Pérez
Properties managed by the site root object.

Although Plone uses other property managers for configuration, the Plone portal object (site root) is a property manager itself, including a set of important properties for site setup.

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

To learn how to access properties programatically, see The Zope Book, Appendix B: API Reference.

Name Default Value
 Type
 description
title
  string
 The title of the Plone site. This title will be used in the <title> HTML tag.
description   text

The description of the site. It will be used to include the description in the HTML header using the tag <meta>, if the site is configured to expose DC meta tags. See exposeDCMetaTags.
default_page
 front-page string
 Sets the default page of the Plone site.
selectable_views folder_listing,
news_listing
 lines
 The views available to be used as default pages for the Plone site.
email_from_address   string
 The email used as the sender for messages sent by Plone, including account activation and password resetting emails.
email_from_name Site Administrator
 string
 The name included in email messages sent by Plone.
validate_email True boolean
 Activates email validation for user registration. If enabled, users receive an email upon registration, with a URL to a temporary form, requesting them to enter the new password.
email_charset utf-8 string
 The charset used when sending email messages.
enable_permalink False boolean
 A CMF property  not used in Plone.