plone.app.gloworm 0.1a5

A Firebug-like inspector tool for Plone.

This package adds a Firebug-like inspector tool for Plone. Activating the GloWorm inspector view allows the user to click on portions of the page to discover tal: statements, macro names, and viewlet information. Viewlets can be shown/hidden, rearranged, and modified without entering the Zope Management Interface.

Using GloWorm

Install the plone.app.gloworm package through the Add/Remove Products page. Once installed and when running in Zope debug mode, an “inspect this page” link will appear in the Object Actions section of content objects on your site. Clicking this link will open up a new view of the page which includes the GloWorm inspection panel. (You may also reach this view by appending ‘@@inspect’ to the current page’s URL).

In this view, clicking on any element of the current page will bring up a list of information about that object, including TAL commands and the viewlet or portlet is contained in.

Click the viewlet name to inspect that viewlet. Viewlet inspection includes the ability to customize the template and to move viewlets from one viewlet manager to another.

In the viewlet inspection view, click the viewlet manager name to inspect that viewlet manager. Clicking the lightbulb icon shows or hides the viewlet. Clicking the up and down arrows allows viewlet reordering. Clicking the name of a viewlet will take you to the viewlet inspection view for that viewlet.

Click the “close” icon in the upper-right corner of the GloWorm panel to return to normal browsing.

Support

Contact WebLion at <[e-mail]>, or visit our IRC channel: #weblion on freenode.net.

Bug reports at http://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/newticket

Author: WebLion Group, Penn State University <[e-mail]>.

Requirements

Requires plone.app.customerize 1.1.2 (included in Plone 3.1.3) or higher.