ibme.persondirectory 1.0

Introduction

A simple dexterity-based directory with faceted search. Developed initially as a directory of academic staff. This is designed to be used along with a Diazo theme to present the results.

Installation

Install as any other Plone add-on, i.e. add to your buildout.cfg and then enable your add-on in your site. See official install documentation for more advice.

Configuration

Before you start creating a directory, consider what fields you want your directory entries to have. For example, “department”, “favourite animal”, etc. Initially, directory entries have 2 fields, title and image. These can be edited or new fields added. To do this:

• Go to the Plone control panel

• Select “Dexterity content types”

• Select “Directory Entry”

• Click the “Fields” tab.

Add as many fields as you require, and/or alter the title/description of the existing fields.

If you would like “department” to be sortable with facets (i.e you can filter the entries with links down the right hand side), then you need to create a TextLine field that uses the SuggestionFieldWidget. To do this you need to alter the schema XML (click “Edit XML Field Model”) and change it to:

<field name="research_group" type="zope.schema.TextLine">
  <title>Research Group</title>
  <form:widget type="ibme.persondirectory.widget.SuggestionFieldWidget"/>
</field>

Once set up, you can add a Person directory anywhere to your site using “Add new”

Credits

Authors:

• Jamie Lentin [lentinj]

Developed as part of the Oxford IBME website.

Further work

The resulting display is rather uninspiring admittedly, this is most useful in combination with your own Diazo theme. However, the initial view could be tarted up a bit.

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