redturtle.smartlink 0.7.3

An advanced ATLink version, with image field and internal link feature

Smart Link

An enhanced version of the base Plone link content type.

After intalling this you’ll see that the Plone link will have a new image field and caption like the News Item content type.

As News Item do, the Link now behave image resize feature.

Also the new Link type can handle internal (to Plone contents) and external links. You can use the internal link field to automatically attach the link value to an internal content of the portal (in a similar way used for related contents).

An event-based system will also keep URLs updated even when you move/rename target document.

Handle backend/frontend URLs

The Smart Link structure is nothing more that a ATLink content, so the way used to store URL in the object or in the portal_catalog is the same as Plone does. There is no magic behind.

For this reason, when you are using Smart Link for internal references, the static URL is stored and used.

This will lead to problems when you are using this product for site where you have different backend/frontend URLs. For this reason you must use the “Configure Smart Link” control panel to handle URL transformation.

You can also use a control that say to Smart Link to store relative URLs but this will also include the Plone site id (and you must rewrite this from Apache if you don’t like this).

Warning 1

Smart Link shapechange itself and hide from portal_types tool the basic Plone Link type!

Warning 2

Pay attention when you update the whole portal_catalog using ZMI from URLs different from backend or frontend ones (for example: using a tunnel).

If you run the update from (for example) “localhost:8090/site” and this URL is not the public or backend URL, all your internal links will be changed to this hostname!

Another catalog update (from the right URL) will fix this.

FileSystemStorage

The product try to register the link image field onto iw.fss if it’s installed.

Credits

Part of the code of Smart Link was taken from the ComboLink Plone (and Plonegov) product. This project was giving the same internal link feature in old 2.1/2.5 Plone releases.

TODO

• Fix this ugly error: WARNING SecurityInfo Conflicting security declarations for setId

• Add more control on content icon. For remote site can be pretty the remote site favicon

• An anchor field. It seems useless for external resources, but can be usefull for internal link to Plone contents with anchors inside

• A better clean-uninstall that really remove all stuff (like marker interfaces applyed)

References

• Code repository: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/redturtle.smartlink/

• Questions? Comments? sviluppoplone AT redturtle.net

• Any great idea? Found a bug? http://plone.org/products/smart-link/issues

Changelog

0.7.3 (2010-06-03)

• fix #2 - error upgrading from 0.4.* to 0.7.* (missing utility) [mauro]

0.7.2

• The “smartLink” was using directlyProvides instead of alsoProvides… this was corrupting some target objects (like: it was impossible to internally link a file that use blobs) [keul]

• Removed the Plone 3.3+ dependency because Smart Link is providing the same feature given by Plone 3.3 also on older Plone versions [keul]

0.7.1

• Version 0.7 had a stupid, unused dependency [keul]

0.7.0

• Added z3c.autoinclude support [keul]

• From this version the minimun requirement is Plone 3.3 [keul]

• Aligned with changes done to ATLink from Plone 3.3 [keul]

• Added a fake link_redirect_view [keul]

0.6.1

• Fixed egg format [keul]

• README updated [keul]

0.6.0 (Unreleased)

• Changed name of tool [fdelia]

• Added icon for tool [fdelia]

0.5.1

• Fix for the corrupted version 0.5.0 [fdelia]

0.5.0

• Added configuration panel to transform back-end links in front-end links [fdelia]

• Added configuration panel to have internal links relative and not absolute [fdelia]

0.4.0

• Keep relations of internal link even if the target content is renamed/moved [keul]

• Added a marker interface for internally linked contents [keul]

• When target object is deleted, the internal relation became a normal absolute URL info [keul]

0.3.1

• Restored the original remoteUrl StringField , due to continuous bad integration with 3rd party products (like p4a and collective.flowplayer) [keul]

0.3.0

• Fixed syntax error on relation name (“internal_page” was “interal_page”) [keul]

• Disabled the backup of basic Plone ATLink [keul]

• Fixed some integration problem in content/link.py related to p4a (remoteUrl) [lucabel]

• Fixed major bug in post_validate (validation was useless) [fdelia]

• Internalization with i18ndude [fdelia]

• Created italian translation [micecchi]

• Clean uninstall (restoring the original ATLink in portal_types) [keul]

0.2.0

• Added a lot of ATLink methods not migrated to the SmartLink class.

• Fixed a bug that lead all reordering actions in folders with SmartLink inside to failure (or to chaotic results). After migrating to this version from the 0.1.0 you can also launch the fix_meta_data external method or your folder will remains broken.

0.1.0

• Initial release