bda.plone.finder 1.0b1

Mac Finder like view for Plone.

Overview

This package provides an AJAX browser for Plone sites.

It uses the column browsing metaphor of OSX finder.

The intention was to speed up content management issues, and fast content browsing in Plone.

Installation

• make egg available in your Plone site

• apply corresponding GS profile

• now you have a link named ‘Finder’ in the document actions which trigger the widget

Development and evaluation

you can checkout and install from source code. Plone 4 buildout configuration is included.

http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/bda.plone.finder/trunk/

Note

• Plone 4 only

• Firefox, IE7

Credits

• Written by Robert Niederreiter <[e-mail]>

• Thanks to the Sprinters at Cathedral Sprint 2010 for ideas and feedback

Changes

1.0b1

• Improve dialog styles [rnix]

• Remove auto fading status message when performing actions. Instead write this information to status bar below columns now [rnix]

• Reset finder._overlay and finder._scrollable on close [rnix]

• IE7 CSS fix for column items [rnix]

• Remove dependencies to bda.plone.ajax [rnix]

1.0a4

• Remove column batching. instead use css overflow [rnix]

• adopt to new jQuery tools scrollable [rnix]

• make me basically work in IE7 [rnix]

• JS refactoring [rnix]

1.0a3

• Change look and feel of batching column pages. Its a vertical slider now [rnix]

• Implement auto loading after editing or adding items out of finder [rnix]

• Implement change state dropdown [rnix]

• Implement add dropdown [rnix]

• Implement column filtering [rnix]

• Remove unused imports from source files [rnix]

• Titles for finder controls [rnix]

1.0a2

• Basic code cleanup [rnix]

• Implement column batching [rnix]

• Self-contained buildout for plone 3 and plone 4 [jensens]

1.0a1

• Make it work [rnix]