rt.lastmodifier 0.4

Greatly expand features and shown data in Plone document byline section

Enhance the Plone adding an additional information on document view: the user who performed the last change and the change note. Optionally expands the document byline section showing those informations.

Table of contents

• Documentation

  • When the new byline informations are shown?

  • Show change notes

• Installation

  • Compatibility

• Credits

• Authors

• Changelog

  • 0.4 (2014-07-17)

  • 0.3.1 (2014-02-25)

  • 0.3 (2014-02-12)

  • 0.2 (2013-04-17)

  • 0.1 (Unreleased)

Documentation

Plone already handle lot of infos in the document byline section, like the document author, the modification date and the publication date.

In the same way new data added by this add-on will be added to the byline section.

When the new byline informations are shown?

New infos apart, all byline elements can now be controlled with a granular security configuration. This will change the way to handle document byline because commonly Plone simply use a couple of site-wide options: the allow_anon_views_about and the displayPublicationDateInByline.

The viewlet will now handle many different informations: author, last modifier, publication date, modification date and last versioning change note (if versioning is enabled on the content). Each information is visible if the user has a specified permission:

• rt.lastmodifier: documentByLine view author

• rt.lastmodifier: documentByLine view last modifier

• rt.lastmodifier: documentByLine view modification date

• rt.lastmodifier: documentByLine view publication date

• rt.lastmodifier: documentByLine view change note

To show last modifier info, Creator and Modifier must be not equals (just for not show a duplicate link).

By default Anonymous users can’t see anything (this will reproduce the Plone default behavior, where Anonymous can’t see the byline section by default).

Show change notes

This feature will show the comment to changes you did, that commonly are kept in the history section.

The editor must explicitly choose if a change note must be putted in the byline section by selecting the “Show the changes note in document info” checkbox. This will store that change note to be shown in the content, that means that additional changes without checking the option will not update that information.

To delete the change note shown you must edit a document, provide an empty note while keeping the check selected.

Note: this feature require JavaScript to work properly.

Installation

Add rt.lastmodifier to your buildout:

[buildout]
...

[instance]
...
eggs=
   ...
   rt.lastmodifier

After that, install the “rt.lastmodifier” add-on product.

Note

Installation will trigger an index creation and population. This can require some times on huge sites.

Compatibility

All Plone versions from 3.3 to 4.3.

Credits

Developed with the support of:

• S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara

  

• Camera di Commercio di Ferrara

  

All of them supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

Changelog

0.4 (2014-07-17)

• New feature for showing the last change note on versionable contents. User must explicitly mark the change has “showable” [keul]

0.3.1 (2014-02-25)

• Fixed default roles: do not use Authenticated but Member [keul]

0.3 (2014-02-12)

• Added new permissions to handle the view of single infos in the viewlet: author, last modifier, publication date and modified date [cekk]

• fixed bug: last modifier was never shown to anonymous users in Plone 4 (#1) [keul]

0.2 (2013-04-17)

• Renamed the product from “collective.lastmodifier” to “rt.lastmodifier”. This is unbelievable and embarassing, but I didn’t find collective.lastmodifier when I looked for a Plone product with those features… and in the end I choosed the same name! However the original product is using a different approach.

• Added collection criteria (for new and old ones)

0.1 (Unreleased)

• Initial release