AT Back Talk

A wrapper product to make the Zope-based 'BackTalk' product available from within Plone.

Current release

No stable release available yet.

Project Description

What is ATBackTalk

ATBackTalk is a thin Archetypes-based wrapper product to make the Zope-based BackTalk product available from within Plone.

It is used to publish the "Programming Plone" tutorial on docs.neuroinf.de.

What is BackTalk

BackTalk is a Zope product written by Chris Mcdonough. It supports commenting on individual sections including email notifications of the author(s), automatic table of contents generation, navigation between chapters, PDF generation and more.

It is used to publish the "Zope Book" and the "Zope Developers Guide" on zope.org.BackTalk can be obtained from SourceForge

Dependencies

ATBackTalk needs

• BackTalk from sf.net/projects/backtalk (you will need CVS head; the latest release - 0.3 at the time of this writing - will not work)
• Archetypes-1.3.1 or higher
• PloneBook from docs.neuroinf.de/products
• PDF generation requires a toolkit by ReportLab from www.reportlab.org.

Installation

Just like any other Plone product. For email support you have to configure the MailHost of each new book instance however.

How it works

All ATBackTalk does is to provide two new content types BackTalk Book and BackTalk Document which subclass the respective classes from BackTalk and an appropriate AT base class. The properties are exposed through the types' schemata. Rendering is done using AT's generic views. Only a few macros are selectively overriden.

Navigation, however, is done using the LocalNavigationSupport mixin class from PloneBook.

Want to See it in Action?

ATBackTalk is used on Plone Docs to deploy the online version of the Programming Plone tutorial.