collective.portlet.content 1.3

A Plone portlet that shows a content item.

Introduction

This portlet shows a content item as content in the portlet. It’s LinguaPlone aware, and is initially created to provide a language-dependent address footer.

Author: Lennart Regebro <[e-mail]>

Development funded by the Nordic Council and Nordic Concil of Ministers. http://www.norden.org/

Compatibility

The product is compatible with Plone 3 and Plone 4.

Tested on Plone 3.3.5 and Plone 4.0b5.

Installing

Add collective.portlet.content to your buildout and re-run buildout. Install the product in your Plone site using the Plone Control Panel (prefs_install_products_form) or the ZMI’s portal_quickinstaller.

Using

Go to @@manage-portlets. If the product was installed properly, you’ll have the option to add a Content Portlet.

Next, select a content item to display. It can be any type of item. You can select which of the item’s fields you want to display in the portlet’s content area:

• Title (either as a link to the content item or as plain text)

• Description

• Date

• Body text

• Image

When the content item doesn’t have a selected field, it should work without errors, but you’d obviously not see the field in the portlet.

You can set these options separately:

• portlet’s title as shown in @@manage-portlets screen

• portlet header title as rendered on page (use content’s title or select custom)

• hide portlet header altogether

• conditionally show a portlet footer with a link to the content item (link text is configurable)

• disable the portlet border

To do

• translations

• tests

Changelog

1.3 (2010-07-29)

• Plone 4 compatibility (while maintaining Plone 3 compatibility) [pcaro]

• Added options to display fields other than the body text. [yomatters]

• Allow portlet border, header and footer to be disabled. [khink]

• Added z3c.autoinlude.plugin so we don’t need to add zcml to buildout. [khink]

1.2 - 2009-1-30

• Test coverage with translated content portlets via LinguaPlone [andrewb]

• Improved test coverage over original paster created boilerplate portlet tests. Now verify the portlet renderer contains the body text of the chosen content item. [andrewb]

• Fixed getTranslation AttributeError when product is used outside the context of LinguaPlone aware content. [andrewb]

1.1 - 2008-11-25

• Fixed a UnicodeDecodeError. [regebro]

1.0 - 2008-11-06

• Initial release