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A z3c form keyword widget using select2.

Project description

Introduction

ftw.keywordwidget provides three features:

  1. A widget, which loads select2 for better usability on single and multiselect fields.

  2. A ChoicePlus field, which allows new terms. This is prevents us from making a specific, complicated source, which allow new items.

  3. Render a additional New Entry textarea for new terms.

  4. Uses tags feature of select 2 to add new keywords.

The widget supports schema.Choice, schema.Tuple and schema.List fields.

Primary Use-Case

The widget provides the same functionality as the AT Keywordwidget with some benefits.

Features from the AT Widget:

  • Protect adding new terms by a permission/role

  • Display all possible values

  • Add new terms

Benefits:

  • Configurable select2 widget

  • Sane defaults for the Widget

  • z3c.form Widget

  • Based on the SelectWidget (No new converter, etc. needed)

  • Configurable “add new terms permission” per field/widget possible

Demarcation

There are several other z3c form widgets for plone 4.x, which provides a similar feature set, Like collective.z3cform.keywordwidget, or the AutocompleteWidget.

  • They do not fit the primary Use-Case.

Further you can configure the select2 plugin as you wish.

TODO

  • Implement async option

Compatibility

Plone 4.3.x

Installation

  • Add the package to your buildout configuration:

[instance]
eggs +=
    ...
    ftw.keywordwidget

Usage / Integration

This Widget is not automatically applied to all possible select fields. The idea is that you integrate it where needed by your self.

But for the primary Use-Case mentioned above, there is a behavior:

  1. Install the default profile and the select2 profile if needed.

  2. Enable the ftw.keywordwidget.behavior.IKeywordCategorization behavior on your content type.

For some other Use-Cases you can also enable the ftw.keywordwidget.behavior.IKeywordUseCases behavior. This enables a single and multi select field.

Check behaviors.py for examples:

from ftw.keywordwidget.widget import KeywordFieldWidget


class IKeywordUseCases(model.Schema):

    directives.widget('types', KeywordFieldWidget)
    types = schema.List(
        title=u'Types',
        value_type=schema.Choice(
            title=u"Multiple",
            vocabulary='plone.app.vocabularies.PortalTypes',
            ),
        required=False,
        missing_value=(),
    )

    directives.widget('types2', KeywordFieldWidget)
    types2 = schema.Choice(
        title=u'Single type',
        vocabulary='plone.app.vocabularies.PortalTypes',
        required=False,
        missing_value=(),
    )

alsoProvides(IKeywordUseCases, IFormFieldProvider)

You can configure select2 as you wish by giving a js_config to widget factory.

directives.widget('types',
                  KeywordFieldWidget,
                  js_config={'placeholder': 'Select something...'})

The select2 4.0.3 JS Plugin is shipped with this package. But you it’s not installed with the default profile, because you may already have a select2 JS installed for other purpose. If you need select2 you can install the ftw.keywordwidget Install select2 jquery plugin profile.

Development

Python:

  1. Fork this repo

  2. Clone your fork

  3. Shell: ln -s development.cfg buidlout.cfg

  4. Shell: python boostrap.py

  5. Shell: bin/buildout

Run bin/test to test your changes.

Or start an instance by running bin/instance fg.

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