#3: Make Press Room subfolders into Large Plone Folders

Contents

1. Motivation
2. Proposal
3. Implementation

Proposed by

Jon Stahl

Seconded by

Andrew Burkhalter

Proposal type

Architecture

Assigned to release

• Press Room 3.2 (Beta release 2)

State

completed

Motivation

Right now, the Press Release and Press Clip subfolders of Press Room are normal Folders.  Thus, if they get more than a few hundred objects in them, they will become a bit slow.   A large organization doing active media work would have no trouble generating large numbers of clips and releases, and so we should use Large Plone Folders, which can scale to thousands of content objects (if not more!).

Proposal

Create Large Plone Folders instead of normal folders for Press Releases and Press Clips subfolders.

Implementation

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12305437 has a hint about how to do this.

We'll also need a migration script that can be run against an existing non-Large-Folder-based Press Room which will:

1. Create new Large Plone Folders for Press Release and Press Clips
   
2. Cut and paste all content in the existing releases and clips normal folders into the new large folders
3. Delete the now-empty existing normal folders
4. Rename the new large folders so they have the same names as the now-deleted normal folders.