Summary
Mass view and edit content in a summary table
Current release
Summary 1.0
Released Jan 27, 2007 — tested with Plone 2.5.1
The first public release
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Project Description
Copyright and license
Copyright 2007 Red Innovation
Licenced under GPL.
Purpose
Summary product adds a new field type "SummaryField". SummaryField allows viewing and editing data collected from other content objects. Data is displayed as a table which acts as a shortcut for quick overviews and mass editing.
- Collect information from other objects
- Display it in easy-to-digest table form
- Edit data without the need of going through many clicks to the object edit view
This product is aimed for Plone developers only. Python knowledge is needed for the product usage.
The orignal use case for this product was editing of a hospital patient visit information. A doctor needed to have a quick look to patient visit and laboratory measurement information.
Other imaginary use cases:
- Mass review content based on author name and content title
- Spreadsheet kind of data input
- Replace some Smart Folders use cases with a possibility to edit values too
See screenshots.
Features
- Default action is to collect and edit data from child content objects and their fields. Content objects appear as rows and field appear as column in the resulting table.
- Provides a flexible API for custom storage backends and use cases
- Different computed values can be placed to the summary table
- Per cell edit control disabling - no accidental misedits of already valid data
- Per cell input value validation
Out-of-box supported field and widget types
- Text fields
- Integer fields
- Floating point fields
- Selection list fields
Installation
Use Plone quick installer to install demo types if you wish to see the product in action.
Usage
Please see supplied demo content types and their source code how to use this product.
Comparison with DataGridField
Feature comparison with DataGridField product which is another table editor component
| Features in DataGridField | Features in Summary |
| Stores data in object field | Stores data in arbitary storage backend |
| Cool Javascripted UI to add new rows easily | New rows cannot be added without a custom code |
| Rich stylesheet customization hooks | Per cell input value validators |
| Per cell input value locking | |
| Works around some ZPublisher limitations | |
| Rich stylesheet customization hooks | |
| More flexible API |
Quality assurance
The product is supplied with basic unit tests.
Following product combination was used for system testing
- Plone 2.5.1
- Windows XP
- IE 6.0
- Firefox 1.5
- Opera 9.0
Known bugs
- SummaryField understands only A-Z, 0-9 and dash in ids. Other ids will break the code.
Sponsorship
This product development was sponsored by ZiteLab.
Contact
Use plone.org product area issue tracker to report bugs and suggestions for the product.
To ask help, to sponsor product development or to hire skilled Plone developers, please contact us.info@redinnovation.com
Wishing a happy Ploning,
Mikko "Moo" Ohtamaa
