plone.app.changeownership 1.0

Change Plone objects ownership

Introduction

plone.app.changeownership as it sounds is a Plone package to change objects ownership.

Problem

While for a single content you can call the /change-owner view, there is no way in Plone to transfer ownership of all objects owned by an user to a new user. To delete a Plone member in such case is not an option.

Solution

plone.app.changeownership makes easy to transfer ownership from one ore more members to a new member. It also can change content metadata, like Creators field.

Install

The addon is installed via your Plone buildout.

• Add plone.app.changeownership to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:

  [buildout]
  ...
  eggs =
      ...
      plone.app.changeownership

• Re-run buildout, e.g. with:

  $ ./bin/buildout

You have to install the package from quickinstaller or setup_tool. You will get a configlet in the Plone control panel named “Change Ownership”.

Changelog

1.0 (2019-09-02)

• Plone 5 compatibility [tomgross]

• Python 3 compatibility [ajung]

• German translation [tomgross]

0.5 (2015-07-29)

• Fixed path filter [uschwarz]

• Minor changes to ownership form [keul]

• Support for Site Administrator role with a proper permissions [keul]

• Added uninstall profile [keul]

• Closed #3: Dexterity content doesn’t have Creators method [keul]

• Added new check flag to chose if changing modification date or not [keul]

0.4 (2012-09-20)

• Fix permissions for Plone 4 [fdelia]

0.3 (2011-03-07)

• Added MANIFEST.in [WouterVH]

• Added Dutch-translation [WouterVH]

• Added z3c.autoinclude support [keul]

• Added italian translation [keul]

0.2 (2010-02-02)

• Added check to support instances without a membersfolder [jaroel]

0.1 (2008-02-01)

• Merged matth’s branch that adds:

  • Filter by path

  • Dry run option

  • Sorting of usernames

  • Display userid as well as full name

• Initial release