Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Dan Jacka

Signify Ltd.

28 April 2010

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

What we'll cover

What we'll cover

Plone content type basics

Restricting which types can be added

Content type portlets

Leveraging existing types

The future of Plone's content types

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

Basics

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

A fresh site

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

Site tree

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

Addable types

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

Content to add

Some news

Some events

Ploneboard forum

PloneFormGen form

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

An fuller site tree

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Basics

Looking like a real site now!

All the simple types

. . . plus Collections, ands its criteria types,

. . . plus the specialist types e.g. News, Event,

. . . plus PloneFormGen types e.g. Form Folder, Checkbox,

Fieldset, etc.

. . . plus Ploneboard types e.g. Forum, Conversation,

Comment, etc.

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Restricting which types can be added

Restricting which types can be added

Per folder

Per folder type

Globally

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Restricting which types can be added

per folder (in the Add Menu)

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Restricting which types can be added

per folder type (in portal_types)

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Restricting which types can be added

globally (in portal_types)

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Restricting which types can be added

Restricting which types can be added

Helps to manage complexity

Used by default in News and Events

Useful for common uploads directory

Per type for custom content types

Globally for one-o� features

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

Content type portlets

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

What does this button do?

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

Type settings

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

Page type settings

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

An example content type portlet

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Content type portlets

Content type portlets

The lesser-spotted portlet type

Static `help' portlet for complex types

Custom types can build on this feature

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Leveraging existing types

Leveraging existing types

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Leveraging existing types

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Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Leveraging existing types

collective.�owplayer

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Leveraging existing types

Leveraging existing types

Build smart functionality around the existing types

Plone core moving to plone.folder

For developers: archetypes.schemaextender

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

And �nally . . . Dexterity

Build content types through-the-web

. . . but with the full power of �lesystem code

Lighter than Archetypes

version 1.0 beta 1 out now.

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

And �nally . . .

Dexterity

Making the Most of Plone's Content Types

Summary

Summary

Restricting types - helps control and organise your site

Content type portlets - don't neglect them!

Choose (and develop) products that add functionality to

existing types

Try Dexterity