AT Content Types

A full and feature rich reimplementation of CMF's default content types with Archetypes. It contains all content types from CMFDefault, CMFTopic and CMFCalendar and a migration system to migrate to the new types. This product is part of Plone 2.1, and you do not need to download it separately unless you need bugfixes between releases of Plone.

Project Description

Comparing CMF types with ATContentTypes

This is a very rough and short list of differences between the old CMF types and the new ATContentTypes types.

• Archetypes: All types are written with Archetypes and have all features default Archetypes based types have like:
  • autogenerated edit forms based on the schema
  • referenceable
  • Easily enhanceable by subclassing or adding fields to the schema
  • Transformations like restructured text, python source code highlighting, pdf to html, office to html and many more.
  • plugable validation of fields
• Clean and documented API.
• Translateable using LinguaPlone.
• TemplateMixin: All types are using the template feature of Archetypes that allows you to choose the view template per instance. Simply register your template, assign it to a type and choose it in the edit form of your object. This features is used to turn an ordinary folder into a photo ablum by simple switching to a different view.
• Permissions per type and feature: Every type has its own add permission and all features like template mixin have their own modify permission, too.
• Numerous small adjustments and enhancements to all types for example:
  • Images can be rotated through the web and have exif informations
  • News Items have an image plus caption
  • Events have a body text
  • Documents have a history tab to show the last changes as an unified diff view using the ZODB history.