[Product-Developers] Taxonomy support in a modern Plone

Jean-Michel FRANCOIS toutpt at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 12:15:50 UTC 2012


Does works done to support vdex vocabulary in Plone could be used ?
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.vdexvocabulary

* It is standard
* it is integrated to zope vocabulary

My 2 cents.

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2012/8/30 Malthe Borch <mborch at gmail.com>

> On 30 August 2012 08:59, Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com> wrote:
> > Content items seems a clumsy way to create a taxonomy but I'm guessing
> you
> > want to make use of the permissions system such that colour/* can be
> "owned"
> > by one group and type/animal/bigcat/* could be some other group?
>
> Yes.
>
> > http://plone.org/products/atvocabularymanager/ which has tree like
> > vocabularies. This uses content types as terms.
>
> I have two issues with this product:
>
> 1) It's Archetypes-based and quite bloated.
> 2) It does not (attempt to) integrate with vocabulary components at all.
>
> > Wouldn't it be a nicer UI to create and edit taxonomies in the control
> panel
> > and then create a UI on top of that for assigning editing rights to
> parts of
> > a taxonomy? Perhaps using rules like I've outlined above? Potentially a
> lot
> > less clicking around and less confusing than having your taxonomy and
> > content items mixed together. How would you hide the taxonomy content
> items
> > from the public?
>
> With a good base, a custom user interface can be built on top. But
> with proper import/export, this might be unnecessary because there are
> external tools that work with taxonomy and can offer a much better
> user experience.
>
> > Have you thought of upgrading ATVocabularyManager to use dexterity
> instead?
>
> No.
>
> I think it's a good time to start with something all new.
>
> \malthe
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