Introduction

collective.tinymcetemplates is a Plone 3 add-on that provides a TinyMCE plugin that allows authors to insert templates and snippets into the page.

Installation

Add collective.tinymcetemplates to your buildout in the eggs list, or as a dependency in the install_requires list in the setup.py file for a product that is already installed in your build. The package’s configuration is loaded automatically by Plone.

You must also install the product in Plone’s Add-on control panel.

Usage

Content authors can use the new Template button to insert templates into the page.

Templates are created and managed as standard Plone Pages:

• The Page title is used as the template title

• The Page description is used as the template description.

• The Page body is used as the the template content.

Hint: If you don’t want templates to show up in search results, remember that they need only be accessible to content authors at edit time. You can thus put them in a workflow state that gives content authors access. You can also restrict access to templates in this way: an author will not see a template built from a Page he does not have the permission to see.

To create some templates, the quickest option is to create a Folder with the id “templates” in the root of the site and put one or more Pages in this folder.

Hint: You can tick the “exclude from navigation” button on the templates folder to make sure it doesn’t show up in the portal tabs or navigation tree.

It’s possible to set a different path for templates, and to list multiple folders. In the configuration registry, as managed by plone.app.registry, the template paths are listed under the key collective.tinymcetemplates.templateLocations. This contains a tuple of paths to pages or folders of pages, relative to the portal root. You can also use GenericSetup to manipulate this list. See plone.app.registry for details.

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