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Customising Plone 3 sharing tab

Where do the titles "Can add", "Can edit", "Can view" and "Can review" come from in the plone 3 sharing tag? What is the difference between "Can view" and "Can review"? ...

Plone 3.2.1 on Fedora 10 with Active Directory Authentication

I have gone through tons of documents over the internet in enabling Active Directory Authentication for Plone 3 using LDAPMultiplugins, PlonePAS etc., but none of them are working for me. Is there any one who has successfully done this? Even if this has accomplished on Windows, it is ok! ...

how to use plone as a framework

I am creating a web app that allows people to debate topics. I started prototyping with Django and have a functional app. I have not yet decided on what framework to use. I've read about Plone the app and Plone the framework. I just can't seem to find any online documentation on using Plone as a framework. I'm looking for a tutorial...

plone + formlib: how to reference form.pt

I'm working on plone 3.2.1 and I've made a formlib's form with a custom template: from Products.Five.formlib import formbase from Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile import ViewPageTemplateFile ... class MyForm(formbase.PageForm): ... template = ViewPageTemplateFile('myform.pt') I want to make a simple change to the stand...

How does one default to current date and time for content publishing?

In this link, http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/set-default-datetimefield-current-date-time it describes how to do this with new Schema attributes. I could update all umpteen content types in our system use this method, but I would prefer something a bit less work intensive, since if I have to change umpteen content types it will be ...

How do I update the version number in a Plone add-on?

Version and installation profile numbering for Plone add-ons has been changing and this is very confusing. What worked in one version of Plone will not necessarily work in other places. ...

After a Plone 2.5x to Plone 3.x migration, how do I correct the kss_generic_macros problem?

I get the error below on several views. Which seems identical to what is described here in this other kss_generic_macros post. An answer is supplied, which is "*This was caused by the 2.5->3.0 migration process failing to add the plone_kss layer to a handful of our custom skins. When I went in and added plone_kss by hand to those skins, ...

How do I modify robots.txt in Plone?

I've got a Plone site that I administer and I'd like to add some pages to the Disallow of a robots.txt. It appears that Plone automatically generates a robots.txt file. I can't find any way to modify that. I've also tried adding a 'robots.txt' file to the root of the app, but it says that "robots.txt is reserved" Does anyone know how t...

Problem in plone translation

I am a plone Newbie and I needed to change a translated word in the .po file, the translation is in Arabic. When I changes the word to the right word and restarted the zope. My plone site is no more reading the Arabic translations from this file and displays question marks instead. When I searched I found that I must do some synchroniza...

plone.app.blob or z3c.blobfile?

I need a blob file field as part of a content type in plone. plone.app.blob's BlobField should provide this, but I can't find how to get a URL to download the file including the original filename (e.g. http://plone.site/plone/obj/orig-file-name.avi). Is there a way to do this using plone.app.blob? Alternately, there are a few pointers o...

Zope / Plone 3 product uninstsall issue

Hey all, I uninstalled a content type that I'd previously added and afterward I'm still getting a warning of 2010-01-06 22:43:50 WARNING OFS.Uninstalled Could not import class 'myclass ' from module 'ns.archetype_name.content.content_type_name' It isn't resulting in obvious problems, but it concerns me since I thought I'd uninstalled...

Install Plone egg as a Python module on Windows

I have a Plone site (Plone version 3.1.2) that I need to install a product called GrufSpaces on - (http://plone.org/products/grufspaces). However, it is a production site and so I can't easily take it down to upgrade Plone to 3.2+ in order to use buildout; using buildout would allow me to easily add Grufspaces (collective.groupspace.role...

Disable Plone Archetypes index/convert doc/pdf files

Hi Stackoverflowers, if i rebuild my catalog in plone i get many of this infos: 2010-02-18T11:26:09 INFO Archetypes Error while trying to convert file contents to 'text/plain' in .getIndexable() of : Unable to find binary "wvHtml" in /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre...

separating JSS from CSS at plone.htmlhead

Hey there! I'm using Plone 3.1.7 in a project that needs performance tweaks. One of the tweaks requests that CSS should be at the top of page and the JS should be at the bottom. However both are located at <div tal:replace="structure provider:plone.htmlhead" /> In main_template. How do I split these ones? Thanks in advance ...

Change Plone default URL

I'm using Plone 3.3.5, installed using the unified installer and run ning standalone without Apache. By default, you can access plone in http://localhost:8080/Plone and I'd rather change the /Plone part with /Docs. I've tried tweaking the virtual host monster, but couldn't find a way to change the url. Can anyone help me? Thanks! ...

Python: Sort list using another list order, having different lengths, and without 'sorted'

I'll to explain this right: I'm in an environment where I can't use python built-in functions (like 'sorted', 'set'), can't declare methods, can't make conditions (if), and can't make loops, except for: can call methods (but just one each time, and saving returns on another variable foo python:item.sort(); #foo variable takes the val...

Plone: How to sort folder items

I have a folder called myfolder, that has some items inside, like: item1, item2, item3, and etc. When I added the portlet Navigation to the left column of the page, and entered on the folder myfolder, it showed me the links on the portlet like this: item1 item2 item3 I want that the Navigation portlet shows me links on this exact so...

Plone3: How export changes on a permission of a portal_type

I went to the address of zope manage: localhost:8000/manage Entered my plone_site named 'foo', than clicked on the portal_types link. Went through the content type named 'MyContentType', and there clicked on the tab Permissions. Changed some permissions to assign than to some roles, and so on... Now, I went to the portal_setup to tr...