Plone

Großes Seminar

Blockseminar SS04

Referentin: Katja Reitz

Table of contents

CMS

Plone

First use of Plone

Object types in Plone

Workflow system

Zope Management Interface

What is a CMS?

CMS – Content Management System

Administration of content

Separation between design and content

Templates

Workflow system

Plone (1)

CMS

Open source

Free

Based on Zope

Programming language: Python

Support of 30 languages, also german

Plone (2)

Extensible

Technology neutralPlattforms:

LinuxWindowsMac OS XSolarisBSD

Zope

Web application server

Contains a Content Management Framework (CMF)

Programming language: Python

Open source

Free

First use of Plone

Download at http://plone.org

About 20 MB (for Windows XP)

Easy to install

After installation:One user Site-ManagerDefault-PagePossibility to create new users

Default page

Start page

Object types in Plone

To produce content

Different object types to realize different content

Generell features:Discussing contentSearching for content

List of object types in Plone

Document

Date

File

Folder

Image

Link

News item

Topic

Example: Document

Object type to produce text

Different formats:Plain textHTMLStructured text

Example 1: Structured text

*italic* italic

**bold** bold

_underline_ underline

Example 2: Structured text

Workflow system

Manage business processes

Management of all activities in a project from start to finish

Document Management

User Roles

Object states

User Roles

Anonymous

Member

Reviewer

Owner

Manager

Example: Reviewer

Object states / actions

Private

Submit

Retract

Reject

Publish

Example: Object states

Zope Management Interface

Administration tool

http://localhost:8080/manage

Change the look of Plone

Templates Zope Page Templates

ZMI

Change the look of Plone

Simple changes:SlotsSkins/Layers

TemplatesZope Page Templates

Zope Page Templates

Structure of a web page

HTML in combination with Template Attribute Language TAL

TAL as a attribute in HTML-Tags

Attribute: tal:statement

Dynamic content

Example 1

The URL is

<span tal:replace="request/URL">

URL

</span>.

Static: The URL is URL.

Dynamic: The URL is http://localhost:8080/template_test.

Example 2

<table border="1" width="100%">

<tr>

<th>#</th><th>Id</th><th>Meta-Type</th><th>Title</th>

</tr>

<tr tal:repeat="item container/objectValues">

<td tal:content="repeat/item/number">#</td>

<td tal:content="item/id">Id</td>

<td tal:content="item/meta_type">Meta-Type</td>

<td tal:content="item/title">Title</td>

</tr>

</table>

Output of Example 2

Conclusion

GroupWare tool

Document Management System

Easy to use

More difficult for the site-manager and the template-programmer Zope Management Interface

Vielen Dank für die Aufmerksamkeit!