Plone

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Plone

• Großes Seminar
• Blockseminar SS04
• Referentin Katja Reitz

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Table of contents

• CMS
• Plone
• First use of Plone
• Object types in Plone
• Workflow system
• Zope Management Interface

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What is a CMS?

• CMS Content Management System
• Administration of content
• Separation between design and content
• Templates
• Workflow system

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Plone (1)

• CMS
• Open source
• Free
• Based on Zope
• Programming language Python
• Support of 30 languages, also german

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Plone (2)

• Extensible
• Technology neutral
• Plattforms
• Linux
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Solaris
• BSD

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Zope

• Web application server
• Contains a Content Management Framework (CMF)
• Programming language Python
• Open source
• Free

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First use of Plone

• Download at http//plone.org
• About 20 MB (for Windows XP)
• Easy to install
• After installation
• One user ? Site-Manager
• Default-Page
• Possibility to create new users

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Default page
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Start page
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Object types in Plone

• To produce content
• Different object types to realize different
  content
• Generell features
• Discussing content
• Searching for content

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List of object types in Plone

• Document
• Date
• File
• Folder
• Image
• Link
• News item
• Topic

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Example Document

• Object type to produce text
• Different formats
• Plain text
• HTML
• Structured text

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Example 1 Structured text

• italic ? italic
• bold ? bold
• _underline_ ? underline

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Example 2 Structured text

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Workflow system

• Manage business processes
• Management of all activities in a project from
  start to finish
• Document Management
• User Roles
• Object states

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User Roles

• Anonymous
• Member
• Reviewer
• Owner
• Manager

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Example Reviewer
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Object states / actions

• Private
• Submit
• Retract
• Reject
• Publish

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Example Object states
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Zope Management Interface

• Administration tool
• http//localhost8080/manage
• Change the look of Plone
• Templates ? Zope Page Templates

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ZMI
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Change the look of Plone

• Simple changes
• Slots
• Skins/Layers
• Templates
• Zope Page Templates

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Zope Page Templates

• Structure of a web page
• HTML in combination with Template Attribute
  Language TAL
• TAL as a attribute in HTML-Tags
• Attribute talstatement
• Dynamic content

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Example 1

• The URL is
• ltspan talreplace"request/URL"gt
• URL
• lt/spangt.
• Static
• The URL is URL.
• Dynamic
• The URL is http//localhost8080/template_test.

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Example 2

• lttable border"1" width"100"gt
• lttrgt
• ltthgtlt/thgtltthgtIdlt/thgtltthgtMeta-Typelt/thgtltthgtTitle
  lt/thgt
• lt/trgt
• lttr talrepeat"item container/objectValues"gt
• lttd talcontent"repeat/item/number"gtlt/tdgt
• lttd talcontent"item/id"gtIdlt/tdgt
• lttd talcontent"item/meta_type"gtMeta-Typelt/tdgt
• lttd talcontent"item/title"gtTitlelt/tdgt
• lt/trgt
• lt/tablegt

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Output of Example 2
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Conclusion

• GroupWare tool
• Document Management System
• Easy to use
• More difficult for the site-manager and the
  template-programmer ? Zope Management Interface

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Vielen Dank für die Aufmerksamkeit!