quintagroup.dropdownmenu

Building you dropdown menu with portal_actions

Starting from Plone 3 portal actions introduced CMF Action Category containers, it opened opportunity to build nested actions trees. Though CMF Action Category does not behave as a regular action, it has different set of properties. We introduced convention in quintagroup.dropdownmenu that requires to have a specially named Action for each Actions Category. The id of each such action must be build using the rule:

action_id = prefix + category_id + suffix

where:

So, the actions structure can look like:

+ portal_tabs
|- home
|- blog_sub
|-+ blog
| |-- 2009
| |-- 2010

By default the root of dropdown menu is 'portal_tabs' category.

Menu caching

If the menu built with Navigation strategy is entirely public it can be cached for all users. If Authenticaded users should see some non public items the menu can be cached for anonymous only.

Caching in case of involving the portal_actions strategy is effective only in case if all the action are public and have no extra conditions. In case some conditions are applied per action switch off caching.

Compatibility

• Plone 4 sample CSS file based on Sunburst theme provided
• Plone 3.0-3.3 the default CSS file has to be overridden

Installation

• add http://good-py.appspot.com/release/plone.app.registry/1.0b2 to versions in your buildout
• add quintagroup.dropdownmenu to eggs in your buildout
• install Plone DropDown Menu in Plone via Site Setup -> Add-ons

Find more details on the topic inside docs/INSTALL.txt

Changelog

1.2.10 - May 10, 2012

• property decorator removed - Plone 3.3.6 compatibility issue fix
• fixed Plone 4.1.5 compatibility issue when accessing action id attribute

1.2.9 - May 2, 2012

• fixed issue that significantly reduced menu caching performance [malthe]

1.2.8 - Apr 23, 2012

• fixed styles for a drop-down menu list in IE7 [gvizdyk]

1.2.7 - Jan 31, 2012

• added cache switch for tabs

1.2.6 - Jan 26, 2012

• revisited caching key strategies, added language and anonymous switch
• added caching switch to control panel

1.2.5 - Oct 21, 2011

• added cache header for csshover.htc view to allow proxy and browser to cache it.

1.2.4 - Sep 07, 2011

• documentation formatting fixed

1.2.3 - Sep 05, 2011

• Live search with dropdown menu overlaps fixed

1.2.2 - June 21, 2011

• Fixed caching content tabs and action tabs
• portal_action generated menu caching is conditional and switched off for now

1.2.1 - June 15, 2011

• Caching fixed

1.2 - Apr 6, 2011

• Changed z3c.autoinclude includeDependencies to simple include to work in plone 3.2 [kroman0]
• drop-down overlay bug fixed [wald]
• cleared unnecessary classes, changed styles to current and hover element [gvizdyk]
• Fixed uninstallation. Added unisntallation with QI [mylan]
• Tests refactoring [mylan]

1.1.1 - Sep 23, 2010

• fixed the docs markup [chervol]

1.1 - Sep 22, 2010

• removed debug code [chervol]
• fixed the dropdown CSS
• fixed the Home tab highlight

1.0 - Sep 08, 2010

• Initial release