#3 — Upgrade script to 3.0 collection portlets is needed

For people that used SmartPortlets on Plone 2.5, a conversion script is needed to convert all existing SmartPortlets in a site, to the new Plone 3 collection portlets.

One idea of how to do this is as follows:

The 1st script looks for folders where left_slots or right_slots contains here/smartportlets_tool/<nameofsmartportlet>/smartportlet .
Every time it finds this, it writes to a file the url to the object, plus , from the smartportlet, the url of the folder to make a collection portlet from.

A 2cnd script reads the file back in, after migration of the Plone site to 3.1.1 or later. For each line in the file it adds a collection portlet to the newly migrated site, hopefully using the API that Plone 3.x normally uses to add Collection portlets.


We need this fix and don't currently have time to write this code.

Can anyone who has the ability and interest to fix this, please send me a quote ( nd51 at leciester dot ac dot uk ).

The resulting code we would openly release, for anyone else who needs to use it.