collective.portlet.ngcollection

by Quintagroup — last modified Jan 23, 2012 04:24 PM

Extends plone collection portlet in order to allow assigning different views for each newly created portlet through it's edit form

Project Description

Introduction

This package provides portlet which extends plone collection portlet in order to allow assigning different views for each newly created portlet through it's edit form.

This is often required to have many collection portlets displaying different information in different places. Plone portlets provide us with portletRenderer directive which in general is really usefull, but it's not an option because it overrides portlet renderer globally thus allowing to have only one template at a time.

Thus to avoid having some odd conditions in your collection portlet's template NGCollection extends standard plone collection portlet with a template field where you can select template to use from available templates.

Apart from the 'template' field NGCollection portlet also adds 'show_more_label' field. This field is here to override default collection's portlet 'More...' link text with some custom one entered by user.

Portlet Templates

In order to register new alternative templates for your portlet this package provides portletTemplates directive:

<configure
    xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope"
    xmlns:plone="http://namespaces.plone.org/plone">

  <include package="collective.portlet.ngcollection" file="meta.zcml" />

  <plone:portletTemplates
      interface="path.to.some.portlet.assignment.Interface"
      directory="alternative_templates"
      />

</configure>

In this example we register templates contained inside alternative_templates folder as alternative templates available for path.to.some.portlet.assignment. Interface portlet. Thus you'll be able to select one of them on portlet edit form via Plone interface.

You can register more than one directory for your portlet.

This idea with registering directories with custom templates was highly inspired by z3c.jbot package.

Contributors

  • Vitaliy Podoba
  • Roman Kozlovskiy
  • Volodymyr Cherepanyak

Changelog

1.2 (2012-01-23)

  • Fixed import deprecation and removed unused imports

1.1 (2011-08-19)

  • fixed filesystem path binding

1.0 (2011-08-08)

  • long overdue release

0.1 (xxxx-xx-xx)

  • Initial release

Current Release
collective.portlet.ngcollection 1.2

Released Jan 23, 2012 — tested with Plone 4.1, Plone 4, Plone 3

Plone 4.1 compatibility
More about this release…

Download file Get collective.portlet.ngcollection for all platforms
collective.portlet.ngcollection-1.2.zip
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All Releases

Version Released Description Compatibility Licenses Status
1.2 Jan 23, 2012 Plone 4.1 compatibility More about this release…
Plone 4.1
Plone 4
Plone 3
 GPL final
1.1 Aug 19, 2011 Bugfixes: filesystem path binding fixed. More about this release…
Plone 4
Plone 3
 GPL final
1.0 Aug 08, 2011 Long overdue release More about this release…
Plone 4
Plone 3
 GPL final

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