PloneExternalFile

An attempt to make the CMFExternalFile product still useable under Plone 2.5

Project Description

Features :

The CMF product CMFExternalFile   http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/CMFExternalFile was quite useable under Plone 2.0x and allowed us to keep the ZODB at a  manageable size with several hundred of files and images uploaded by our students.

Unfortunately, this product ( as per revision 0.5) breaks Plone 2.5 in several ways :

• It is not written using Archetype architecture
• It breaks addition of any content by overloading the createObject method of  CMFPlone/skins/plone_scripts/
• It does not return anymore the  actual content-type but text/plain
  

The aim of this project is to fix these features to avoid manual deletion and re-creation of these objects as regular files/images on a migrated site.

Caveats :

Our purpose is only to give backward compatibilty to sites migrated from Plone 2.0x to Plone 2.5.  The attached screenshot shows edition of an external file running under Plone 2.5 .

Administrators seeking for a new and more reliable solution for "externally stored content" should turn to CMFExtFile http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/CMFExtFile that requires only some tweakings at the template's level to be used with Plone 2.5.

Dependencies :

• ExternalFile http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile

Compatibility :

• developped and tested only with plone 2.5.1

Current Release

No stable release available yet.