Plone Keyword Manager
Plone Keyword Manager allows you to change, merge and delete keywords in Plone and updates all corresponding objects automatically. It uses a similiarity search to support you in identifying similar keywords. Keywords can be cleaned up from time to time by a site manager to create a consistent vocabulary.
Current release
Plone Keyword Manager 1.5
Released Sep 08, 2008 — tested with Plone 3
Targeting Plone 3 compatibility.
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- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Project Description
Plone Keyword Manager allows you to change, merge and delete keywords in Plone and updates all corresponding objects automatically. It uses a similiarity search to support you in identifying similar keywords. Keywords can be cleaned up from time to time by a site manager to create a consistent vocabulary.
Plone Keyword Manager is a simple solution to a problem in the real-world use of Plone: If you can't work with restricted vocabularies, your keyword vocabulary will get duplicate entries very quickly - depending on your authors' interpretation of existing keywords.
Installation
Plone Keyword Manager can be easily installed and removed with the built-in install mechanism in Plone. Place it in your Products directory, restart Plone, and use the Add/Remove Products panel to activate.
Plone Keyword Manager uses Python's difflib for the similarity search per default, but if you want to speed up the Plone Keyword Manager, you should install the Python-Levenshtein-Module (written in C) which will makes things up to 10 times faster. A copy of the Levenshtein-Module is provided in the package (to install it on Linux do something like "cd python-Levenshtein; python setup.py install"). Plone Keyword Manager will use the faster Levensthein search automatically if it can be imported by your Zope instance.
Usage
After installing, you will find an entry in Plone Setup called Keyword Manager. Inside, you will see an alphabetical listing and a selection for all existing keywords in your site.
Use the last one to see similar terms for a single keyword.
Use the former one if you want to see a list of all keywords starting with
letter b, click it. The Plone Keyword Manager will then search all
keywords starting with b and will also look for similar keywords. You can
now select several keywords and delete them for example. If you only want to
change a single keyword, select it, then enter the new keyword and click on
merge. If you want to merge several keywords into one new one, select them,
enter the new keyword and click on merge.
The last selected keyword is entered automatically into the text box if JavaScript is enabled. This may be surprising at first glance, but you'll learn to appreciate it. If you use it the right way, you don't have to copy&paste into the text box. Try it, you'll get the idea. :)
Credits
Plone Keyword Manager was primarily written by Maik Jablonski during the Plone Paderborn Sprint (September 2003), founded by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
- Main code
- Maik Jablonski
- User Interface updates and Setup Code
- Alexander Limi from Jarn
- Plone 3.0 update and release management
- Alex Clark
We would also like to thank Maik for letting us put this code in the Collective - so it can be improved and maintained by the Plone community.
History
- v1.5
- Updated for Plone 3.0.
- v1.0
- Updated for Plone 2.5.
- v0.2
- Improved UI, now installs as a Plone Setup panel, compatible with Plone 2.0.
- v0.1
- Initial release of Plone Keyword Manager
