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Carousel allows you to add user-configurable rotating banners to any section of a Plone site.

Project description

Introduction

Carousel is a tool for featuring a rotating set of banner images in any section of your Plone site. Features:

  • Different sets of banners can be used in different sections of the site.

  • Banners can link to another page in the site, or an external URL.

  • Carousel provides options to customize the appearance of the banner as well as the length and type of transition.

  • An optional pager provides navigation among the banners.

  • Transition effects are implemented using the jQuery javascript library which is included with Plone, so they are pretty lightweight.

  • Banners do not rotate while the mouse cursor is hovering over the Carousel.

  • Banner and pager templates can be registered to customize the appearance of the Carousel.

  • Carousel implements jQuery events, allowing for integration with custom javascripts.

Compatibility

Carousel requires Plone 3.0 or greater, mainly because it renders itself in a viewlet.

Installation

Add Products.Carousel to your buildout’s list of eggs, and re-run buildout. If you get version conflicts while running buildout, you can use a known good version set to find versions compatible with plone.app.z3cform:

http://good-py.appspot.com/release/plone.app.z3cform/0.5.0-1?plone=4.0.2

Start Zope, go to Site Setup -> Add-on Products in your Plone site and install the Carousel product.

Detailed overview and tests

Viewing the banners

Now if we return to the home page, where we initially configured the banners, the banner we just added should be rendered (before the tabs):

>>> browser.open('http://nohost/plone')
>>> browser.contents
<BLANKLINE>
...Pirates and Cowboys...
...class="contentViews"...

Adding banners in other scenarios

Non-structural folder: put the carousel in the containing folder:

>>> self.setRoles(['Manager'])
>>> self.portal.invokeFactory('Folder', 'nonstructural')
'nonstructural'
>>> from zope.interface import alsoProvides
>>> from Products.CMFPlone.interfaces import INonStructuralFolder
>>> alsoProvides(self.portal.nonstructural, INonStructuralFolder)
>>> browser.open('http://nohost/plone/nonstructural')
>>> browser.getLink('Carousel').click()
>>> browser.url
'http://nohost/plone/carousel/@@edit-carousel'

Collection, not default item: put the carousel in the collection itself:

>>> self.portal.invokeFactory('Topic', 'topic')
'topic'
>>> browser.open('http://nohost/plone/topic')
>>> browser.getLink('Carousel').click()
>>> browser.url
'http://nohost/plone/topic/carousel/@@edit-carousel'

Collection, as default item: put the carousel in the containing folder:

>>> self.portal.default_page = 'topic'
>>> browser.open('http://nohost/plone/topic')
>>> browser.getLink('Carousel').click()
>>> browser.url
'http://nohost/plone/carousel/@@edit-carousel'

Change history

2.1b1 (2010-12-06)

  • Fixed known good versions set link. [yomatters]

  • Made instructions for adding and modifying banners more prominent. [yomatters]

  • Added option for setting the ID of the Carousel. [yomatters]

2.0 (2010-11-19)

  • Split plugin into functions, making it easier to override parts of the Carousel behavior. [yomatters]

2.0b1 (2010-09-30)

  • Added slide as a possible transition type. [yomatters]

  • Refactored javascript as a jQuery plugin that triggers jQuery events on transitions. [yomatters]

  • Added settings to customize the appearance of the banner and pager and the length and type of transition. [yomatters]

  • Added an optional pager for navigation among banners. [yomatters]

  • Replaced description field on Carousel banners with a rich-text body field. [yomatters]

  • Remove the browser layer to help with use in Plone 2.5. [davisagli]

1.1 (2010-03-26)

  • In Plone 4, add viewlet to the abovecontent viewlet manager by default, to avoid weird styles. [davisagli]

  • Added Spanish translation. [tzicatl]

  • Only show published banners in the Carousel, even for users who have permission to see others. [davisagli]

1.0 (2009-03-31)

  • Changed behavior of text links to swap banner on mouseover. [davisagli]

1.0b3 (2009-02-07)

  • Add ‘Carousel Banner’ to types not searched. [davisagli]

  • Locate carousel folder correctly on containers used as default pages (e.g. a Topic) [davisagli]

  • Apply proper security declarations to the getSize and tag methods of the banner type so that the view works okay when customized TTW. [davisagli]

  • Only display the carousel on default view; not any of the other tabs. [davisagli]

  • Fix viewlet removal on uninstallation. [davisagli]

  • Fix duplicate entries in quick installer. [davisagli]

1.0b2 (2009-02-04)

  • Declare dependency of our custom GS import step on the viewlets step. [davisagli]

  • Separate the (globally-registered) template from the (locally-registered) viewlet, so that the former can be customized using portal_view_customizations. [davisagli]

  • Added banner description to the template. Changed the ‘carousel-title’ class to ‘carousel-button’ so I could split out ‘carousel-title’ and ‘carousel-description’. [davisagli]

  • Handle non-structural folders correctly. [davisagli]

1.0b1 (2009-02-03)

  • Initial release. [davisagli]

Contributors

  • David Glick [davisagli], Groundwire, Author

  • Matt Yoder [yomatters], Groundwire

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