collective.plonefinder 1.0.0b

collective.plonefinder

Ajax popup to reference plone contents.

This code is an extraction of plonearticle explorer for referencables contents

The intent is to make it usable in different situations :

• for referencable fields inside AT edit forms

• to store selected contents in zope3 forms (portlet forms as example)

• for collective.ckeditor or any possible wysiwyg editor for referencing images or contents inside a rich text field, it’s also possible to upload files / images and create folders with this product (big part of code taken from collective.uploadify)

• for links fields (as remoteUrl in ATLink) to reference internal links

This work has been started at Ingeniweb in 2007 by Christophe Bosse & Jean-mat Grimaldi for PloneArticle product.

How to use it as reference widget :

A reference widget for zope3 forms is available inside this product.

The widget can be used to store objects references in a sequence field.

Example of use in a portlet form for a field named target_contents:

from collective.plonefinder.widgets.referencewidget import FinderSelectWidget

target_contents = schema.Tuple (title=u"Browse for contents",
                                description =u"Choose contents to display "
                                              "with a plone finder window. ",
                                required = False,
                                default= ()
                                )

form_fields['target_contents'].custom_widget = FinderSelectWidget

Example of use for images referencing:

from collective.plonefinder.widgets.referencewidget import FinderSelectImageWidget

target_images = schema.Tuple (title=u"Browse for images",
                              description =u"Choose images to display "
                                             "with a plone finder window. "
                                             "You can select different image sizes. "
                                             "You can upload new images. ",
                              required = False,
                              default= ()
                              )

form_fields['target_images'].custom_widget = FinderSelectImageWidget

How to use it in wysiwyg editor :

See the collective.ckeditor product as example.

You can easily use it with another editor.

Todo :

• i18N support

• Ajax opening/moving and all window effects inside the same browser window (in progress)

• Improve some reference widget options (add option to hide or show selected items in browser)

• New zope3 widget to store urls (for a string field)

Authors :

Jean-mat Grimaldi - Alter Way Solutions

Code repository :

https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.plonefinder/trunk

Support :

• Questions and comments to support@ingeniweb.com

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