Products.QuillsEnabled 1.7.0

A Blogging Suite for Plone.

Quills is an Enterprise Weblog System for the Plone content management system. It is designed from the ground up to work well and provide specialized features for a multi-blog, multi-user environment.

Requires Plone 3.1 or later.

Getting started

QuillsEnabled allows you to use Plone Folders, Documents and News Items for blogging. To create a blog, simply add a new Folder and select “Activate Blog” from the “Actions” menu, then add Pages/New Items for each new post. Existing folders can be turned into a blog the same way. To change a Blog back into a plain and boring folder, select “Deactive blog” from the Actions menu.

Extensions

There are a few packages that add extra functionality to your Blog.

quills.remoteblogging

Use your Blog with any Weblog Editor that supports the MetaWeblog API. This feature requires the Products.MetaWeblogPASPlugin product to be installed into your Plone site.

Pitfalls

There is a slight incompatibility with Quintagroup’s Plone Comments product. To fix it, open the ZMI of your Plone site and go to the “portal_form_controler”. There select the tab “Actions” and delete the overide “discussion_reply_form”.

Links

Product Homepage

Visit http://plone.org/products/quills to learn more about Quills.

Mailing List

Read our mailing list archive at Google Groups, or subscribe to it there. To post, write an e-mail to [e-mail].

Issue Tracker

Report bugs and request features by using the issue tracker on our product homepage.

Code Repository

You can find the source code in the Plone Collective Repository at http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.QuillsEnabled/.

Changelog

The following people contributed to the Quills project during the period this change-log covers. In lexical order:

• Érico Andrei [erico_andrei]

• Leonardo J. Caballero G. [macagua]

• ? [dunny]

• Jan Hackel [jhackel]

• Tim Hicks [tim2p]

• Jens W. Klein [jensens]

• Mikel Larreategi [erral]

• Tom Lazar [tomster],

• Thomas Clement Mogensen [tmog]

• Clayton Parker [claytron]

• Reinout van Rees [reinout]

• Raphael Ritz [raphael]

• Justin Ryan [justizin]

• Jon Stahl [jonstahl]

• Per Thulin [pthulin]

• Sasha Vincic [svincic]

1.7.0 (2009-09-29, r98430)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Thomas Clement Mogensen [tmog]

• internal changes or improvements [tmog] (r97175, r97195)

1.7.0 RC3 (2009-08-04,, r93625)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Érico Andrei [erico_andrei], Leonardo J. Caballero G. [macagua], Jan Hackel [jhackel]

• Fixed issue #205: feeds of the filtering blog views (topic and author view) would show all entries instead the restricted set. [jhackel] (r89441, r89442)

• New i18n messages. Translators, update! [jhackel]

• updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish [erico_andrei, jhackel, macagua] (r89515, r93025, r93575)

• egg package updates [jhackel] (r89441, r89473)

1.7.0 RC2-post1 (2009-07-07, r89345)

• Fixed issue #209: non-ascii characters in topic names break the blog. This (among others) was caused by an rewrite of the traversal logic for topics which proved fatal (issue #198, r88258). This release switches back to the old logic, though in an re-implemented form. [jhackel] (r89053, r89344)

• Fixed issues #203 & #204: content or views named day or month would break the archive portlet and archive links. This happened, for instance, when CalendarX was installed. [jhackel] (r89158, r89162, r89168)

• internal changes or improvements [jhackel] (r89330)

• egg package updates [jhackel] (r88324)

1.7.0 RC2 (2009-06-16, r88321)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Jan Hackel [jhackel], Thomas Clement Mogensen [tmog]

• Fixed issue #202: TypeError happens when filtering blog entries by an non-existant member id, e.g. an image id. [jhackel] (r88075, r88118, r88258)

• Fixed issue #198: Images do not appear in the topics and authors views. [jhackel] (r88070, r88258)

• Fixed issue #195: topic views will name only one topic in the view heading when filtering by multiple keywords/authors. [jhackel] (r87931, r87933)

• Depend on Products.fatsyndication >= 1.0.0, this should fix issue #196. [jhackel] (r87730)

• Mention that Products.MetaWeblogPASPlugin is required for remote blogging. [jhackel] (r87353)

• internal fixes and improvements [jhackel] (r87929)

• better test-bed [jhackel] (r87908)

• (new and) updated translations: Danish [tmog] (r87412, r87413)

• egg package updates [jhackel] (r86422)

RC1 post-1 release (2009-05-19, r86421)

• Querying the authors of a Blog would yield only those whose posts were in the workflow state published, whereas Quills allows multiple states for published posts. [jhackel] (r86421)

• Fixed issue #194: discussion was broken for possible weblog content (e.g. Pages) outside a Weblog [jhackel] (r86414, r86416)

1.7.0 RC1

Contributors in alphabetical order: Enzo Cesanelli [Luthy], Jan Hackel [jhackel], Per Thulin [pthulin]

• Fixed issue #193: post viewed by archive URL would render without CSS-styling in NuPlone. [jhackel] (r86062)

• compiled this change-log [jhackel] (r85768, r85823, r85834, r85835, r85981)

• Fixed issue #164: MarsEdit (and other blogging tools) could not upload images. [jhackel] (r85515)

• Obsoleted package Products.QuillsEnabledRemoteBlogging. Remove it from your buildouts! [jhackel] (r85424, r85678)

• Archive view shows posts in full just as those other Quills views do. [jhackel] (r85423)

• Fixed issue #191: Topic listing contained broken links to indvidual topics (keywords). [jhackel] (r85392)

• Archive does not show the number of posts as a sort of debug information anymore. [jhackel] (r85365)

• Fixed issue #189: replying to a comment raised a non-fatal TypeError in the portlet code. [jhackel] (r85157, r85687)

• message files updated [jhackel] (r85089, r85091, r85628, r85667)

• Fixed issue #168: Quills was spilling out warning messages. Now it is silent. [jhackel] (r84998, r85003, r85076)

• Fixed issue #180: links to authors were broken in the post view. [jhackel] (r84996, r84997)

• Fixed issue #179: Quills broke the static text portlet (and others) across the site. [jhackel] (r84946, r84958)

• Feed links now point to archive URLs. [pthulin] (r84193)

• Fixed issue #178: byline of post did not show up. [?] (r84186)

• Fixed issue #176: syndication feed icons missing when Product.Quills is not installed. [jhackel] (r84052)

• egg package updates [jhackel] (r83916)

• new and updated translations: Italian [Luthy] (r76452, r85959)

• internal fixes and improvements (r84037, r85367, r85400, r85684, r86066)

• better test-bed (r85119, r85149, r85196, r85733)

1.7.0 Beta 3 (2009-04-06, r83858)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Jan Hackel [jhackel], Mikel Larreategi [erral], Tom Lazar [tomster], Sasha Vincic [svincic]

• egg package updates [jhackel] (r83718,r83845_, r83848, r83858)

• Fixed issue #173: Archive and Quills links portlet could not be added to the blog. [jhackel] (r83446)

• Fixed issue #172: Could not use the “view” alias to display posts. This broke linking from outside the blog. [jhackel] (r82282, r83630, r83674)

• Fixed issue #153: Archive portlet did not render correctly in the Internet Explorer 6. [jhackel] (r81362)

• Fixed issues #162 and #149: Quills was leaking memory, plus broke the folder list accoss the whole site. [jhackel] (r81088, r81282)

• Fixed issue #159: post descriptions were looking just like the body text. They now match the look of the standard portal types. [jhackel] (r81087)

• Fixed issue #158: “Add Entry” of the admin portlet did not work. [jhackel] (r81018, r81021)

• Fixed issue #160: describtions of a post could not be saved. [jhackel] (r80964)

• Authors portlet option are now beeing saved. [erral] (r80792)

• Skip configuration screen for portlets that have no options to choose from. [erral] (r80787, r80789)

• new and updated translations: Swedish [svincic] (r80495)

• internal fixes and improvements (r80872)

1.7.0 Beta 2 (2009-01-24, r79562)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Érico Andrei [enrico_andrei], Jan Hackel [jhackel], Tim Hicks [tim2p], Mikel Larreategi [erral], Raphael Ritz [raphael], Sasha Vincic [svincic]

• News Items allowed for posting [svincic] (r74326)

• Fix issue #119: jump back to the archive URLs after commenting. [tim2p] (r78681)

• Fix issue #151: make post titles more visually more prominent than section headings. [tim2p] (r78675)

• Fix issue #143: blog portlets show up as soon as the blog is activated. [jhackel] (r77100)

• Register portlets to the context instead of portal type or interface. [erral] (r75744, r75747)

• Fix issue #147: allow Unicode characters in keywords/topics. [erral] (r74930, r74931)

• Quills and QuillsEnabled can coexist on the same site now. [jhackel] (r73682)

• Fix issue #123: allow arbitrary workflows, specifically the single state workflow works now. [jhackel] (r70247, r71678, r71711)

• Syndication works more reliable. [svincic] (r69456, r69513)

• new and updated translations: basque, brazilian portuguese, german, spanish [enrico_andrei, erral, jhackel] (r68092, r72830, r72831, r72832, r72877, r72878, r72879, r72921, r72922, r72923, r74082, r74084, r74087, r74089, r74090, r74095, r74101, r74102, r74103, r74104, r75757, r75758, r76081, r76082, r76084, r76085, r76089)

• lot’s of internal fixes and improvments (r67215, r68365, r69457, r72833, r72834, r72835, r74085, r74088, r74375, r74923, r75523, r75763, r75991, r77704; r78148, r78679)

• better test-bed (r72157, r72191, r72282, r72513, r76260, r76274, r77100, r77539, r78068, r78069, r78078, r78079, r78080)

1.7.0 Beta 1 (2008-06-04, r66180)

Contributors in alphabetical order: Tim Hicks [tim2p], Jens W. Klein [jensens], Tom Lazar [tomster], Clayton Parker [claytron], Reinout van Rees [reinout], Justin Ryan [justizin], Jon Stahl [jonstahl]

• egggified (r62377, r62378, r62379)

• optional byline for posts [claytron] ](r61086)

• Only show the recent comments portlet if there are actually comments to show. [claytron] (r59289)

• improve looks and stability of portlets [claytron, jensens, justizin, tomster] (r52195, r54914, r55744, r55951, r55952, r56496, r56815, r59288, r59044)

• locate weblog by interface [jensens, tim2p] (r56302, r56814, r56815)

• fixed bug where archive would miss post on last day of year or month [tim2p] (r56301)

• more robust and better looking topic and archive views [claytron, tomster] (r52196, r52197, r55953, r55954, r55955)

• Fix issue #112: Make the URLs generated for comments in the recent comments portlet archive-aware. [tim2p] (r52571)

• Fix issue #117: Stop the admin portlet being shown to non-admin-ish users. [tim2p] (r52562)

• plone-3-ish looks for Quills [reinout] (r52226, r52228)

• style sheet tuning [jonstahl] (r51922)

• show comments count [tim2p] (r50095, r50096)

• Fix for issue #111: /archive/ hardcoded into weblog archive urls. [tim2p] (r50065, r50067)

• Fix for issue #97: comments, commenting button and content actions do not show for posts [tim2p] (r50053)

• lot’s of internal fixes and improvements (r50068, r50966, r51917, r52190, r52194, r55950, r55956, r56528, r56811, r56823, r59287, r61085, r62375, r65079, r66166)

• better test-bed (r50100)

svn/unreleased (pre r50045)

Left for future generations to dig out…