collective.calltoaction 1.0b3

Portlet with call to action

collective.calltoaction

This shows a call to action: an overlay with an image, titel rich text. This calls the attention of a visitor to take action, usually to click a link or button.

Compatibility

Works on Plone 4.3.x, tested explicitly on Plone 4.3.8. Not yet compatible with Plone 5: the javascript and css need work.

Features

• A call to action portlet. This is basically a copy of the static text portlet with a few extra options.

• In the portlet you can set the number of milliseconds before the overlay is shown.

• When the overlay is shown, a cookie is set. We use this to show the overlay only once. The cookie is specific for this portlet: a new call to action portlet will be shown once too.

• When you edit the portlet, you can use a checkbox to say that this is not a minor edit, but a new version. The previous cookie is then not valid anymore and the visitor will again see the overlay once.

• The portlet itself is never shown. Instead a viewlet looks for portlets and shows the contents after a pause. This avoids a portlet column taking up space but not showing anything when there are no other portlets.

• You can create multiple portlets if you really want to, but only one overlay is shown on a page. If there are three portlets, and the user has already seen the first one but not the others, then the second one will be shown.

Examples

This add-on is planned to be used on https://www.arbounie.nl and http://www.zeelandia.com, who have sponsored development, but the sites may not always have a call to action configured.

Translations

This product has been translated into

• Dutch (Maurits van Rees)

Installation

Install collective.calltoaction by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    collective.calltoaction

and then running bin/buildout

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/collective/collective.calltoaction/issues

• Source Code: https://github.com/collective/collective.calltoaction

• Documentation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.calltoaction

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know by creating an issue in the tracker.

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Contributors

• Maurits van Rees, [e-mail]

• Lennard Huiskes, [e-mail]

• Jean-Paul Ladage, [e-mail]

Changelog

1.0b3 (2016-04-13)

• Except AttributeErrors only, and verify if an image is actually uploaded to a newsitem. [jladage]

1.0b2 (2016-04-13)

• Support both ATImage and ATNewsItem as providers of images. [jladage]

1.0b1 (2016-04-06)

• Initial release. [mauritsvanrees]