Practical Plone 3 -- Table of Contents -- Practical Plone 3 -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Part 1 - Background -- Part 2 - I want to... -- Part 3 - Now that I've got the basics, I'd like to learn how to... -- Part 4 - My boss wants me to... -- What you need for this book -- Who is this book For -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- I. Background -- 1. Introducing Plone -- What is a content management system? -- What is Plone? -- Plone: the product -- Plone: the framework -- Plone: the community -- Online -- In the real world -- What does it mean that Plone is open source? -- Planning your web site -- Audience -- Outcomes -- Content and site features -- Business rules -- Graphic design, branding, look, and feel -- Integration with external systems -- Hosting/deployment -- Who will maintain and edit the site? -- Summary -- 2. Installing Plone -- Background -- Downloading Plone installers -- Installing on Windows -- Running the Windows installer -- Running Plone -- Setting ports -- Starting and stopping the Plone service -- Customizing startup -- The installation layout -- Uninstalling -- Installing on Mac OS X -- Running the installer -- Custom install options -- Finishing up -- Starting and stopping Plone -- Uninstalling Plone -- Installing on Linux -- Installation options -- Preparing your system -- Extra packages -- Downloading and unpacking the Unified Installer -- Running the Unified Installer -- Starting and stopping Plone -- The installation layout -- Installation options -- Installation from source -- The software stack: Python, Zope, and Plone -- Traditional source install -- A better build with buildout -- Testing your installation -- Summary -- 3. A Brief Tour of Plone.

Logging into a Plone based site -- Portlets -- Navigating the home page -- Logo -- Site Map -- Accessibility -- Contact -- Search -- User link -- Personal dashboard -- Profile -- Change password -- Dashboard edits -- Tabs on the Home page -- Home tab -- Users tab -- News -- Events -- Breadcrumbs -- My folder -- Colophon -- Summary -- II. I want to... -- 4. Create Web Pages -- Viewing site contents -- Adding a new page -- Title -- Description -- Body Text -- Using the formatting tools -- Bold and Italics -- Left, center, and right align -- Numbered and bulleted lists -- Definition list -- Indent text -- Using the style menu -- Examples of each style -- Saving your work -- Editing a page -- Edit all parts of a page -- Edit a single part of a page -- Editing the HTML of a page -- Using full screen mode -- Creating hyperlinks -- Internal Links -- External Links -- Linking to a specific part of a page: anchors -- Defining the anchors -- Linking to an anchor from a different page -- Linking to an anchor on the same page -- Working with images -- Uploading an image -- Inserting an image on a Page -- Preparing images for the web -- Controlling the layout of a page: tables -- Publishing your work -- Publishing a page -- Publishing multiple pages -- Publishing a folder -- Summary -- 5. Add News Items, Events, Links, and Files -- News items -- Creating a news item -- The news folder -- Events -- The events folder -- Creating events -- Using the vCal and iCal links -- Links -- Files -- Adding a file -- Summary -- 6. Structure Your Content -- Real world information architecture tips -- Structuring your content -- Adding Collections to your site -- Additional Collections -- Restricting types of content -- Moving content -- Changing the order of pages -- Summary -- 7. Safely Manage Different Versions Of Content -- Introducing versioning -- Creating a new version.

Viewing the version history -- Previewing previous versions -- Comparing versions -- Reverting to a previous version -- Summary -- 8. Delegate Content Management to Other People -- Creating users and groups -- Creating a user -- Allowing users to register themselves -- Creating users with initial passwords -- Roles and permissions -- Contributor -- Editor -- Reader -- Reviewer -- Manager -- Using groups to control security -- Creating groups -- Adding users to groups -- Assigning roles to specific places in your site -- Summary -- 9. Manage Approvals and Other Workflow for my Content -- Background -- Roles -- States -- Transitions -- Changing your site's workflow -- Understanding Plone's supplied workflows -- Making our own collaboration workflow -- Summary -- 10. Show Additional Information to Users and Visitors -- What's a portlet, anyway? -- Plone's built-in portlets -- Add-on portlets -- Adding portlets -- Adding portlets to specific sections of your site -- Adding portlets to specific content types -- Adding portlets to specific groups of users -- Hiding portlets for specific content objects -- Unblocking portlets that have been blocked -- Creating new types of portlets -- Installing collective.portlet.tal -- Adding a simple TAL portlet -- Variable declaration -- Conditionals -- Choosing a random item -- Filling in the value of an HTML tag -- Attributes on an HTML tag -- More information -- Summary -- 11. Automate Tasks with Content Rules -- Understanding content rules -- Getting into action -- Receiving an email when someone adds a page -- Moving published news items to a top-level news folder -- Triggering events -- Conditions -- Actions -- Notify site users of a successfully-completed action -- Summary -- 12. Control My Site's Configuration -- The Plone control panel -- Walk-through of each preference panel -- Add/Remove Products -- Calendar.

Collection -- Content Rules -- Errors -- HTML filtering -- Language -- Mail -- Maintenance -- Markup -- Navigation -- Search -- Security -- Site settings -- Themes -- Types -- Users and Groups -- Kupu visual editor -- Styles -- Zope Management Interface -- Syndicating content with RSS -- Navigation options -- Global sections -- Navigation portlet -- Summary -- III. Now that I've got the basics, I'd like to learn how to... -- 13. Set up a Repeatable Environment using Buildout -- Terms -- Why zc.buildout? -- Default settings -- Buildout quick start -- Cooking with buildout -- Buildout configuration -- Advanced configuration -- Debug configuration -- Version pinning -- Summary -- 14. Find and Install Add-Ons that Expand Plone Functionality -- Background -- Where to find products -- Using the Plone product pages -- Playing it safe with add-on products -- Product choice strategy -- Evaluating a product -- Testing a product -- Looking to the future -- Installing and testing products -- Zope installation -- Downloading and unpacking a product -- Traditional product installation -- Finding the Instance products directory -- Checking ownership and permissions -- Restarting Zope -- Eggs -- Plone installation -- Installation problems -- Widely-used Plone products -- Integration -- Content management -- Community -- Feedback -- Page composition -- Media -- E-commerce -- Mashups -- Internationalization -- Development and examples -- Examples -- API exploration -- Code generators -- Summary -- 15. Build Forms -- Installing PloneFormGen -- Creating a form -- Adding a Form Folder -- Configure the basic properties of your form -- Adding and editing form fields -- Adding selection fields and multi-select fields -- Action Adapters -- Mailer Adapter -- Save Data Adapter -- Custom Script Adapter -- Overrides -- Configuration -- References -- Summary.

16. Create New Content Types -- Background -- When do I actually need a custom content type? -- But I'm not a programmer! -- The tools-or drawing code for fun and profit -- Archetypes and object-oriented programming -- The concept of schema -- Object-oriented programming concepts -- UML and a quick introduction of the symbols you'll use -- A quick look at the programs that make it possible -- The class, the package, composition, aggregation, and generalization -- Class -- Package -- Composition and aggregation -- Generalization -- Stereotypes and tagged values -- Our bridge to happiness: ArchGenXML -- Building a custom newsroom -- A rough outline of the types we'll use -- Press release -- Press kit folder -- Drawing your first new product -- Creating a package for your types -- Creating your first classes -- Generate your product! -- Adding your fields -- Adding a custom folder type -- Cleaning things up a bit -- Tagged values for greater precision -- Moving around in the code and renaming fields them -- Summary -- 17. Customize Plone -- Background -- Make changes to tabs, buttons, and menu options -- Document actions category -- Site actions category -- Folder buttons category -- Object category -- Object buttons category -- Portal tabs category -- User category -- Customization using templates -- Skin layer customization-The old fashioned way -- Registering and installing a new filesystem-based skin layer -- Getting started -- Zope 3 basics -- Zope 3 browser layers -- Using plone.theme to enable a custom browser layer interface -- Using browser layer technology to allow additive layers -- About Zope 3 browser resources -- Images and stylesheets -- Browser views and pages -- Using portal_view_customizations -- Finding views -- Viewlets -- Portlets -- Writing a filesystem product -- About GenericSetup -- Base profile -- Extension profiles.

An example extension profile.