collective.contentrules.runscript 0.2beta

An action for the cntentrules framework to run a script on the object that triggered the rule

Introduction

Content rules are a powerfull feature in Plone 3. But create a filesystem product for every single little action we’d like to perform seems a little overkill. To help those integrators and administrators out there, RunScript brings the ability to register a condition that once matched will perform whatever the action you state in a script configured in the Rule configuration form.

Just to meet a few use cases, the product brings a some sample scripts that might come in handy:

tag_after_parent

Adds the parent’s title as a tag to the item (appends to the subject field).

others_might_come_in_the_future

You can give your suggestions.

One could easily write a new script that just needs to be traversable from the object that will trigger the condition.

Installation

Add collective.contentrules.runscript to your buildout as an egg or from source. No (generic setup) installation is necessary, the action is registered using ZCML. So do add the package to the zcml slug list of your [instance] section.

If you’d like to use any of the available sample scripts then you should install the product by the Addons configlet.

Usage

Go to the Plone Control Panel, select Content Rules and add a new Rule. Under ‘actions’ you now have a new option: Run Script.

In the ‘Configure element’ form, point to a script that knows how to perform the desired action upon the object that will trigger the rule.

If you installed the sample scripts, you could use the ‘tag_after_parent’ script and have every object matching the rule’s condition categorized by their parent’s title.

If the script you inform at the configuration form is not traversable from the object that triggered the rule an exception will or will not be thrown depending on the state of the ‘Fail on script not found’ flag.

If you set the rule to an ‘add to container’ event, not finding the script means not fullfilling the add.

Credits

This package has been highly based on collective.contentrules.mailtolocalrole.

Changelog

0.1.1 (2009-07-23)

• Fixed packaging problems

0.1 (xxxx-xx-xx)

• Initial release