foei gone olive!

Ken Wasetis [at Contextual] kw_cms_lists at contextualcorp.com
Wed Apr 25 17:42:57 UTC 2007


Sisi,

Congratulations on your launch - the site looks great!

As for the online donations feature, I'd recommend looking at and 
hopefully contributing (in development, documentation, requirements 
definition, or however) to the PloneGetPaid product, which I believe has 
some implementations already hooked up with PayPal.  The project home 
page is at:  http://www.openplans.org/projects/plonecommerce    and the 
Plone product pages is at:  http://plone.org/products/plonegetpaid .  As 
you can probably glean, there's a lot of recent activity and momentum on 
this project, so it may be one to start leveraging and contributing to.

As for the manageable menu, we're hitting the same issue on a client 
site we're working on (want top navigation tabs to be manageable - not 
just auto-generated by listing all published folders at a certain level 
of the site, and want the tab to visually reflect the current navigation 
section.)  If you get some good advice on this, I'd like to hear it as 
well. 

One approach, which may be less than ideal, but that I think will work 
and that I think we're going to apply (if I don't hear of a better 
option) is to leverage the CMFPublicator tool 
(http://plone.org/products/cmfpublicator), if it works with Plone 2.5.x 
(the product page doesn't indicate whether it'll work with anything past 
Plone 2.1.x), or we'll build something similar and custom, but more 
lightweight that just provides a custom type that acts as a list 
manager.  Create links (via ATReferenceBrowserWidget or something 
similar) to arbitrary objects (could be some, but not all content 
folders for a section of a site, or folders that exist at different 
hierarchy levels of the site) and then just iterate through that list 
when building the top nav.  We'll still need to leverage the navigation 
macro that build the top nav, so that it produces the -currentitem style 
when appropriate to indicate the currently selected tab/section.

If anyone knows of an existing solution to the above scenario, please 
provide some feedback.  Sounds like it's a fairly common requirement out 
there in Plone land.

Thanks,
Ken Wasetis
ken <dot> wasetis <at> contextualcorp <dot> com



sisi wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Friends of the Earth International went olive with our brand new plone 
> based public site about fifteen minutes ago. The site still has rough 
> edges, but we're two weeks over deadline and decided enough was enough!
>
> Total migration time just over three months (and we originally thought 
> it would take us three years, heh!)
>
> Any faults and problems you come across please email me. You'll find 
> the site here: http://www.foei.org
>
> Two caveats: I had to change the tab design to _not_ reflect where you 
> are in the site because of the way we are redirecting our urls (long 
> and painful story...). We hope to find a more elegant solution to that 
> in the near future. And, we're using PloneMultisite (which I'm very 
> happy with so far...) :-)
>
> Anyone has any tips on a donation tool that'll work with paypal please 
> speak up!
>
> Cheers,
> sisi
>






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