The Definitive Guide To Plone

978-1-4302-1893-7, 978-1-4302-1894-4

Table of contents :
Prelims
……Page 1
Contents at a Glance……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Plone 2.1……Page 17
Post-3.0……Page 18
About the Authors……Page 19
About the Technical reviewers……Page 21
About the Foreword Writer……Page 23
Introduction……Page 25
Introducing Plone……Page 29
What a CMS System Gives You……Page 30
Who Needs Plone?……Page 31
Usability……Page 32
Documentation……Page 33
Zope and the CMF……Page 34
The Plone World……Page 35
Getting Involved……Page 36
Summary……Page 37
Installing plone……Page 39
Installing Plone on Windows 2000/XP/Vista……Page 40
Changing the Ports……Page 44
Installing Plone on Mac OS X……Page 45
Ubuntu and Other DebianLike Distributions……Page 46
Installing on Fedora and Red Hat/CentOs……Page 47
Installing with the Unified Installer……Page 48
Installing Plone with zc.buildout……Page 50
The Buildout Directory Tree……Page 53
Managing Your Buildout……Page 54
Adding a Plone Site……Page 57
Installing a Traditional Zope 2 Product……Page 59
Summary……Page 60
Logging in As a New User……Page 61
A First Look at the Plone Interface……Page 64
Organizing Your Site……Page 66
Setting Up Your Dashboard……Page 69
Setting Up Your Preferences……Page 70
Adding and Editing Site Content……Page 72
Adding and Editing Pages……Page 73
editing a page……Page 74
Setting page Metadata……Page 75
Adding and Editing Images……Page 78
Adding and Editing Files……Page 80
Adding and Editing Events……Page 81
Adding and Editing Links……Page 82
Adding and Editing News Items……Page 83
Automatic Item Locking and Unlocking……Page 85
Publishing Your Documents……Page 86
Restricting Content Types in a Folder……Page 89
Using the Display Drop-Down Menu……Page 90
Tracking the History of Content and Versioning……Page 94
Sharing Your Content……Page 97
Adding a New Collection……Page 98
Setting the Search Criteria……Page 100
Finding Content in Your Site……Page 103
Performing an Advanced Search……Page 104
Commenting Content……Page 105
Summary……Page 106
Main Site Setup……Page 107
Managing Your Site Settings……Page 109
Managing Language Settings……Page 111
Managing Security Settings……Page 112
Managing Theme Settings……Page 113
Managing Mail Settings……Page 114
Using the Error Log……Page 115
Navigation Settings……Page 119
Managing Search Settings……Page 120
Adding/Removing Products in Your Site……Page 121
Managing the Calendar Settings……Page 122
Managing the Collection Settings……Page 123
Markup Settings……Page 124
Type Settings……Page 125
Managing Users and Permissions……Page 126
Users, Roles, and Groups……Page 127
Adding New Users……Page 128
Changing Users Details……Page 129
Managing Groups Through the Web……Page 131
Changing Group Details……Page 132
Configuring the WYSIWYG Editor……Page 134
Library Configuration……Page 135
Kupu Resource Types……Page 137
Links……Page 138
Managing HTML Filtering……Page 139
Tags……Page 140
Styles……Page 141
Managing Portlets……Page 142
Managing and Adding Portlets……Page 143
Using the Block/Unblock Portlets Controls……Page 145
Content Type Portlets……Page 146
Using Classic Portlets……Page 147
Managing Automatic Rules……Page 148
Creating a New Rule……Page 149
Assigning Rules……Page 153
Summary……Page 155
References……Page 157
Understanding ObjectOriented Web Development……Page 159
Understanding Object Publishing and Acquisition……Page 161
Configuring Content Types……Page 163
Changing Icons for a Content Type……Page 166
Looking at Actions……Page 168
Exporting Your Configuration……Page 170
Creating a New Content Type from an Existing Type……Page 171
Understanding the Portal Catalog……Page 173
Indexing Content……Page 174
how Do You reindex all the Content on Your Plone Site?……Page 175
Searching a Field or Date Index……Page 176
Searching a KeywordIndex……Page 177
Searching a ZCtextIndex……Page 178
Using Search Results……Page 179
Tying It All Together: Making a Search Form……Page 180
Taking Advantage of the ZCA: Searching by Interfaces……Page 183
Summary……Page 185
Changing the Entire Site’s Look Quickly……Page 187
Using Layers Within a Skin……Page 189
Your First Customization……Page 191
DTML and ZPT……Page 193
Managing Viewlets……Page 195
Editing CSS……Page 198
Examining Example Customization Snippets……Page 199
KSS: Ajax Made Easy……Page 201
What Can You Do with KSS?……Page 203
Summary……Page 205
Implementing Security in Zope……Page 207
Adding New Roles……Page 209
Understanding the Way Zope Stores Users’ Information……Page 210
Using the portal_workflow Tool……Page 212
Managing an Existing Workflow……Page 214
Adding Plone Policy Support……Page 223
Customizing an Existing Workflow……Page 227
Duplicating and Creating New Workflows……Page 228
Summary……Page 230
advanced User Management……Page 231
The Pluggable Authentication Service (PAS)……Page 232
The Plugin Types……Page 233
Managing Users Through the acl_users Tool……Page 235
Users Can Be Searched but Cannot authenticate……Page 237
Authentication with LDAP……Page 238
Configuring Your LDAP Connection……Page 239
Configuring Your LDAP Connection Through the ZMI……Page 241
Authentication with Relational Databases……Page 242
Summary……Page 245
Structure of a Plone Product……Page 249
Building a Regional News Reader: Requirements and Discussion……Page 252
Forms……Page 272
Getting and Using z3c.form……Page 273
Understanding the Plone Catalog……Page 281
Viewlets and Portlets……Page 282
Summary……Page 301
Publishing the File System……Page 303
ZODB vs. Relational Databases……Page 305
Adopting a Relational Database in Zope……Page 306
SQLAlchemy and Plone……Page 309
Accessing Plone over FTP……Page 314
Using Plone Through the WebDAV Protocol……Page 315
RSS Integration into Plone……Page 317
And Now for Something Completely Different: Plone on WSGI……Page 318
Summary……Page 320
System Architectures and Deployment Configurations……Page 321
Configuring BLOB Storage……Page 322
Configuring RelStorage……Page 323
Asynchronous Indexing……Page 325
Plone Behind a Web Server……Page 326
Caching, Clustering, and Load Balancing……Page 327
Zope Clustering with ZEO……Page 328
Installing a Load-Balancing ZEO Cluster with buildout……Page 330
Caching Proxies and Your Plone Site……Page 332
Multiple ZODBs……Page 334
Speeding Up Plone by Putting portal_catalog on a Different ZODB with a Stand-Alone Zope Instance……Page 335
Speeding Up Plone by Putting portal_catalog on a Different ZODB with a ZEO Cluster……Page 336
Automatic ZODB Packing……Page 338
Summary……Page 339
Management of Enterprise Workflow……Page 341
Integrating ECommerce Functionality into a Plone Portal……Page 343
Watermarks on Images……Page 344
Plone and Multimedia……Page 345
Handling Many Large Objects with Plone……Page 347
Integration of External Applications and Single-SignOn……Page 349
Custom Member Profiles……Page 351
Community Portals and Social Networks……Page 352
Intranets and Document Management Systems……Page 353
Plone: Faster Than Light……Page 354
Summary……Page 355
License……Page 357
Creative Commons Notice……Page 363
Index……Page 365