[Plone-NGOs] Newsletter Musings - TALES like control for Non-ZMIusers

[David Bain]

ATDataMerge sounds pretty nice. I'll need to look into that.

On 1/8/07, Duane Raymond <duane.raymond at fairsay.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Is there anyway to let a non-power user of Plone
> > define a newsletter layout
> > that takes, say, 15 upcoming events and lets them
> > define how to display them, e.g. like
> >
> > <h2 tal:content="item/Title" />
> > <p tal:content="item/Description" />
> >
> > but without forcing them to know TALES or go into the ZMI?
> <snip>
> > [[Title]] would appear, letting
> > you compose something like:
> > <h2>[[Title]]</h2>
> > <p>[[Description]]</p>
>
> For the eCampaigning Tool we have developed (in Plone Collective
> SVN now and due to be released in alpha this week) one of the
> associated products we developed for it is ATDataMerge (also in
> Plone Collective) which enables us to insert dynamic variables
> into different content (e.g. firstname, title, description, etc.)
>
> It needs to be integrated by a developer into other products, but
> I see no reason why ATDataMerge it couldn't be used for the
> purpose you describe as well. (variables are inserted via simple
> [firstname] type square brackets)
>
> > Then going farther, you would want there to be a way
> > to loop through all your
> > items
> >
> > <tal:block repeat="item items" />
> >
> > so you'd want a way to specify
> >
> > These are the upcoming events:
> > [[Begin loop of items]]
> > <h2>[[Title]]</h2>
> > <p>[[Description]]</p>
> > [[End loop items]]
>
> At the moment it doesn't directly support looping, but with more
> development a solution for this could be found.  It also doesn't
> yet directly support conditional content (e.g. if firstname
> exists, use it otherwise display this generic greeting).  I say
> 'doesn't directly support' because an approach could be found
> using a 'getMergeData' python script which returns the right list
> of variable for insertion (e.g. in a loop: [Title1],
> [Description1], [Title2], [Description2], etc.)
>
> As I said - ATDataMerge is a developer component so can't be used
> directly and must be integrated.  But by releasing it as a
> separate product from eCampaigning Tool we hope others will find
> it useful and integrate it into their products (and help extend
> it!).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duane
>
> PS - my colleague - Saffe - was the one developing the product -
> I identify the needs, set the priorities for development and test
> it meets those needs)
>
> ===========================================================
> Duane Raymond
> FairSay
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>
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