A discussion board for Plone.
Project description
Introduction
Ploneboard is an easy to use web board. It uses the proven Plone user interface, and is made for easy integration into Plone sites. The target audience is businesses and developers wanting a discussion board in their Plone site.
Ploneboard aims to do one thing, and do it well. It will never be an over-the-top all-bells-and-whistles message board, but will stay minimal in the sense that it’s living inside an existing content management system - and will leverage that to the fullest extent possible.
Visit Ploneboard in the products area on plone.org for more information.
Ploneboard is sponsored by the Consumer Council of Norway, Marshall Mayer, LiveModern and various generous contributors
Requirements
Ploneboard requires:
Plone 3.0 or later
Installation
See the Installing an Add-on Product tutorial for more detailed product installation instructions.
Installing with buildout
If you are using buildout to manage your instance installing Ploneboard is very simple. You can install it by adding it to the eggs line for your instance:
[instance] eggs = Products.Ploneboard
If another egg package depends on Products.Ploneboard you do not need to specify anything in the buildout configuration: buildout will detect this automatically.
After updating the configuration you need to run the ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will take care of updating your system.
Installing without buildout
You can install Ploneboard easily using the easy_install command from setuptools; this will install both Ploneboard and SimpleAttachment. You can install this in either the system python path or in the lib/python directory of your Zope instance. If you have setuptools installed you can do this using easy_install:
easy_install Products.Ploneboard
If you do not have setuptools you can install both manually by using the setup.py script in the SimpleAttachment and Ploneboard sources. If you want to install SimpleAttachment inside your Zope instance instead of system wide you can its ‘’–prefix=’’ option to install in the ‘’lib/python’’ directory of your Zope instance.
Changelog
2.2 (2011-02-08)
Minor updates to German translation. “Message Board” is now “Foren” instead of “Forum”. [thet]
Added profile for a Ploneboard intranet workflow. Note that currently there are not transitions to publish selected content outside the intranet. [thet]
Fixed bug where you could not change Maximum Attachment Size while editing a Forum. Added test. [sureshvv]
Moved event notifications for object creation to later phase. Objects should be populated with data when firing ObjectInitializedEvent. [naro]
Remove catalog.xml and set up catalog from code instead. This avoids nuking index on update/reinstall. [tesdal]
Fix some references to the wrong the names of some browser views. [rossp]
Fix a setuphandler step dependency. [rossp]
Add some french translations in the plone domain and fix the translation of “help_body_attachments_maxsize” in Ploneboard-fr.po. [sylvainb]
ploneboard_recent and ploneboard_unanswered views need access to the toPloneboardTime method. This fixes http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/207 as well as http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/208 [sylvainb]
No more Zope2 interfaces [toutpt]
Merged changes from plone4-compatibility branch [jcbrand]
Defined global variables in templates, for Plone4 compatibility [jcbrand]
Fix Spanish translation for “Log in to start a conversation”. [timo]
Fix translation for “Post comment” and “Cancel” for the add_comment_form. [timo]
2.1b2 - 20091019
Set up dependencies correctly. [tesdal]
2.1b1 - 20091019
Create forums data structure in board view as dict of dicts. [tesdal]
Create conversations data structure in forum view as list of dicts. This can be easily cached, although there is no support for it yet. [tesdal]
Create comment automatically in conversation if adding conversation with text. [tesdal]
Made profiles for funkload testing. [tesdal]
Add the complete list of date elements when translating dates to allow customization of format by overriding the base translation string. [kdeldycke]
Fixed cosmetic bug (search results relevance percentage). [glenfant]
Added Swedish translation, thanks to Martin Lundwall. [hannosch]
Add Russian translation, courtesy of Eugene Korenevsky. [wichert]
Add missing empty alt-text for content type icons in the search results. [wichert]
Modified author retrieval to allow for blank fullnames on users, falling back to their user ID instead. [rockdj]
Added event notifications for object creation with _createObjectByType for Conversation, Comment and Attachment objects. [daftdog]
Make Conversation batch size configurable. Used to be 30 always. [sureshvv]
When adding comment, do not redirect to first page of conversation always. Redirect to page anchored to comment [sureshvv]
When viewing a forum, clicking on Most recent comment link should take you there [sureshvv]
Make toPloneboardTime obsolete as a PythonScript. It is now a method in the view class. [sureshvv]
User can edit thier and only their comments using PlacefulWorkflow [sureshvv]
Added workflow to lock an entire message board [sureshvv]
2.0 - March 14, 2008
Index newly added comments so all their data is correct in the catalog. [wichert]
Rework the RSS feed: make the Ploneboard RSS feed work recursively so a feed on a forum shows all conversations and a feed on the board itself shows all comments from all fora. Enabled feeds on the Ploneboard type. [wichert]
Remove the object_provides index from Ploneboard: Plone 3.0 has a much more efficient version of that itself. [wichert]
Add an explicit visualClear below the ‘start new conversation’ button so it does not overlap the table. This fixes http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/161 [wichert]
In preparation of PLIP195 being merged for Plone 3.1: declare Products.SimpleAttachment as a dependency in our GS profile. [wichert]
- _ Update the Lithuanian translation. This fixes
Correct the attachment size vocabulary: the values should be integers, not strings. This fixes http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/168 as well as http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/144 [wichert]
Honour the content-type for comments when transforming them. Doing things like replacing newlines with <br/> on text/html comments is kind of silly. [wichert].
2.0rc1 - December 21, 2007
Make the comment-icon a link to the comment. This fixes http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/78 [wichert]
Fix a corner case: creating a conversation without text but with attachments would loose the attachments. [wichert]
When creating a new conversation do not set its description to the entered text. [wichert]
Switch to a plone.app.controlpanel based control panel. [wichert]
Correct base class for portlet add form. This fixes http://plone.org/products/ploneboard/issues/154 [wichert]
2.0b2 - December 19, 2007
Correct login-name vs userid usage. [wichert]
Correct attachment handling, which broke in previous 2.0 releases. [fschulze]
Add a search form to the board view. [wichert]
Disable non-working javascript-based sorting on conversation and forum views. [wichert]
Port the recent conversations portlet to plone.portlets. [wichert]
2.0b1 - November 28, 2007
Portlets management enabled, Plone 3.0 tests, deprecations hidden. [glenfant]
French translation completed. [glenfant]
Port to Plone 3.0 [wichert, fschulze]
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