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Provide 'membership' in specific areas of a Plone Site

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collective.workspace

Introduction

collective.workspace package for providing ‘membership’ in specific areas of a Plone Site.

It allows you to grant people access to areas of content using a membership group rather than local roles for each user, and to delegate control over that group to people who don’t have access to the site-wide user/group control panel.

collective.workspace provides a behavior that can be enabled for any Dexterity content type. When enabled, it adds a “Roster” tab which is where you can manage the team.

All the functionality takes place via an IWorkspace adapter, which can be overridden to specify:

  • A list of groups, and the roles that each group should receive. These groups are created automatically via a PAS plugin, and automatically granted local roles using a borg.localrole adapter.

  • The schema for which fields should be stored for each member in the roster. This includes checkboxes for the groups, to determine which groups the member is in.

  • Action links for each row in the roster. The default is an “Edit” link which brings up a popup to edit the fields for that person’s roster membership.

  • Action buttons at the bottom of the roster which apply to the rows the user selects. An example of this could be a ‘Send email’ action, so a roster admin can easily email users in the roster.

Unlike similar previous packages (see slc.teamfolder and collective.local.*), collective.workspace supplies its own PAS groups plugin, instead of using standard Plone groups. This means that Workspace-specific groups do not appear in the sitewide group control panel.

Some other features are:

  • Membership in a roster is indexed, so you can search the catalog for items of portal_type X that have a particular user in their roster.

  • Events are fired when roster memberships are added/modified/removed.

Basic Installation

  • Add collective.workspace to your buildout eggs.

  • Install collective.workspace in the ‘Add-ons’ section of Plone’s Site Setup.

  • Enable the behaviour on your dexterity content type (Either using GenericSetup or Site Setup -> Dexterity Content Types).

Custom Workspace Groups

The default groups available on a workspace are ‘Members’ and ‘Admins’. You can customise the groups that are available and the default permissions they are given by adding a custom IWorkspace adapter:

configure.zcml

<adapter
   for="mypackage.MyContentType"
   provides="collective.workspace.interfaces.IWorkspace"
   factory=".adapters.MyWorkspace"
   />

adapters.py

from collective.workspace.workspace import Workspace

class MyWorkspace(Workspace):
    """
    A custom workspace behaviour, based on collective.workspace
    """
    # A list of groups to which team members can be assigned.
    # Maps group name -> roles
    available_groups = {
        u'Supervillians': ('Reader', ),
        u'Superheroes': ('Reader', 'Contributor', 'Reviewer', 'Editor',),
    }

Contributors

  • David Glick - Original Author

  • Adam Forsythe-Cheasley - Documentation/Testing

  • Ben Cole - Documentation/Testing

  • Matthew Sital-Singh - Documentation

Changelog

1.2 (2016-06-22)

  • Performance improvements

  • Intelligent caching of groups, plus cache invalidation on changes to a workspace

  • Added a new role TeamGuest that can be used to grant reduced access permissions to a workspace

1.1 (2014-07-04)

  • Fixed distribution issues

1.0 (2014-07-04)

  • Initial release

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