Products.CMFContentPanels 2.6a2dev

Overview

Products.CMFContentPanels is a repackaging of CMFContentPanels a Plone portlets product to build manageable composite pages.

You can create new content object which is composed of other contents as configurable ‘content panels’. You can change the layout, the panel skin and the content viewlet through the web.

This repackaging is intended to support projects migrating from earlier versions of Plone (2.x) to newer ones (3.1.x).

Requirements

• Plone 3.1.x (http://plone.org/products/plone)

Features

• Support multi-page and multi-column

• fully functional layout management, easy to use: move panels left/right/up/down

• predefined viewlets for Document, Image, Folder, Topic, ZWiki Page, PloneChat, mxmDynamicPage.

• each viewlet is configurable. it is quite easy to add new viewlets. You can add a RSS viewlet or a simplet text viewlet.

• contentpanels content can be a plone portlet and show on the left/right column.

• support multi-rows: use ‘tile’ page layout mode, and each page becomes a new row!

Installation

To use this product, on a buildout based installation:

1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add Products.CMFContentPanels to the list of eggs to install

   [buildout]
   ...
   eggs =
       Products.CMFContentPanels

After updating the configuration file you need to run the ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the ‘Site Setup’ page in the Plone interface and click on the ‘Add/Remove Products’ link.

Choose the product (check its checkbox) and click the ‘Install’ button.

Uninstall – This can be done from the same management screen, but only if you installed it from the quick installer.

Extending Products.CMFContentPanels (For Developers)

Credits

• Simples Consultoria <http://www.simplesconsultoria.com.br/> for

  sponsoring the eggfication of this product.

• “ZopeChina.com”:http://www.zopechina.com, a leading Zope Service provider in China. ZopeChina.com runs the biggest Chinese Zope community in China - “CZUG.org”:http://czug.org (China Zope User Group). We are trying to make Zope/Plone works better for Chinese people.

• ausum’s “CMFPortlets”:http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/CMFPortlets , many idea comes from CMFPortlets. Thanks!

• The Rounded panels technique is from Denis Mishunoff’s how-to: http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/portlets-with-rounded-corners-and-shadow

Bug report and feature request

In the “Products.CMFContentPanels product area”: http://plone.org/products/cmfcontentpanels you can report bugs and request new features.