plone.schemaeditor 1.0b2

Provides through-the-web editing of a zope 3 schema/interface.

Introduction

plone.schemaeditor provides a through-the-web interface for modifying Zope 3 schemata (interfaces).

Currently there is support for:

• adding and removing fields

• editing attributes of existing fields

• reordering fields

• renaming fields

plone.schemaeditor only handles the actual schema editing. To be useful, it requires some integration code to take care of the following pieces:

• traversing to a schema that is used as the context of the editor

• persisting schema changes across Zope restarts

See plone.app.dexterity (along with plone.dexterity and plone.supermodel) for one approach to this integration.

The following field types (from zope.schema) are currently supported:

• TextLine

• Text

• Int

• Float

• Bool

• Password

• Datetime

• Choice (with simple list of values)

• List of Choice (with simple list of values)

Third-party packages can make additional field types available by registering new IFieldFactory utilities.

Dependencies

• Zope 2

• z3c.form

• plone.z3cform

Despite the namespace, Plone is not a dependency.

Credits

Author:

• David Glick ([e-mail])

Thanks to:

• Nathan Van Gheem

• Martin Aspeli

• Alex Limi

• Ross Patterson

Changelog

1.0b2 - 2011-01-22

• Add another possible base to try for our fixed IDatetime, since plone.app.z3cform may change which one takes precedence. [davisagli]

• Default to adding Textline fields. [davisagli]

1.0b1 - 2010-04-18

• Added overlay support to the field edit screens. [davisagli, limi]

• Revamped UI to show WYSIWYG representation of fields. [davisagli, limi]

• Removed the JavascriptFormWrapper. [davisagli]

• Major package cleanup. [davisagli]

• Omit the ‘required’ and ‘missing_value’ fields for Bool fields. [davisagli]

• Add the ability to define vocabularies of simple TextLine values. Both single and multiple select fields are provided. [rossp]

• Override base field interfaces to get the correct field types for the default and missing_value fields, rather than using the MetaFieldWidgetFactory. [rossp]

• Make sure that normalized ids for new fields use _ instead of -, so that they can be accessed without using getattr. [davisagli]

• Fix issue with moving fields to position 0 in a schema. [davisagli]

• List the available field type vocabulary alphabetically. [davisagli]

• No longer provide a field factory for zope.schema.Bytes, since plone.namedfile provides a better file field and now registers its own field factories. [davisagli]

• Fix inline validation for the field edit form. [davisagli]

• Added ReadOnlySchemaListing for listing fields without making them editable. [davisagli]

• CSS tweaks [davisagli]

1.0a2 - 2009-07-12

• Changed API methods and arguments to mixedCase to be more consistent with the rest of Zope. This is a non-backwards-compatible change. Our profuse apologies, but it’s now or never. :-/

  If you find that you get import errors or unknown keyword arguments in your code, please change names from foo_bar too fooBar, e.g. add_field() becomes addField(). [optilude]

1.0a1 - 2009-05-23

• Initial release