[Framework-Team] PLIP 244: Portlet management improvements

Tom Lazar lists at tomster.org
Thu Oct 16 21:19:56 UTC 2008


+1 from me

The way I understand the proposed changes they are not breaking  
backwards compatibility, but simply make it easier to achieve already  
existing functionality. also +1 on the idea of making portlet  
assignments browser layer dependant. that's a feature i often find a  
need for.

cheers,

tom

On 16.10.2008, at 17:35, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ricardo Alves has been working (with me providing some guidance) on  
> some incremental improvements to plone.app.portlets. We'd like to  
> propose this for Plone 3.3:
>
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/244
>
> The key suggestions are:
>
> - Create a "site wide" portlet category for portlets that should  
> show on all pages (unless blocked). Currently, people have to use  
> contextual portlets at the root of the site for this, which gets  
> cumbersome since if you block them in one folder, you need to re-add  
> all portlets in subfolders.
>
> - Improve the contextual "manage portlets" screen so that you can  
> see what portlets will disappear/appear when you block/unblock.
>
> - Add a setting (actually, an annotation) to each individual portlet  
> assignment that determines whether it is shown in subfolders or not.  
> This will probably need to default to true, at least for migrated  
> sites, but may be better off as defaulting to false. This will solve  
> the problem of "I want this portlet in this folder, but not all sub- 
> folders". Currently, you need to go and block contextual portlets in  
> each sub-folder, which is a pain.
>
> Each of these could be implemented separately, although they do go  
> hand in hand.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
>
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