Let the Machine work for you ! Content. Productivity. And Having Fun ! Kamon AYEVA Ingeniweb / Alter Way Group

Content. Productivity. And Having Fun !

Kamon AYEVA Ingeniweb / Alter Way Group

Introduction Kamon AYEVA Ingeniweb: Zope & Plone Provider Training

Kamon AYEVA

Ingeniweb: Zope & Plone Provider

Training

So you have a powerful tool... Content Management System Content is first-class citizen Visual editing, presentation, navigation, classification, searching, transformation... and all that Jazz...

Content Management System

Content is first-class citizen

Visual editing, presentation, navigation, classification, searching, transformation...

and all that Jazz...

But you're still doing things manually ! Content modification Reviewing and ”publishing” Awareness of content changes Collaboration etc...

Content modification

Reviewing and ”publishing”

Awareness of content changes

Collaboration

etc...

”Content Rules” to the rescue ! Plone 3 Fine-grained settings for more productivity control awareness

Plone 3

Fine-grained settings for more

productivity

control

awareness

Content Rules Engine Rules allow automatic actions based on ”triggers” If event, if condition(s), then action(s)

Rules allow automatic actions based on ”triggers”

If event, if condition(s), then action(s)

Events Object added to the container Object modified Object removed from the container Workflow state changed

Object added to the container

Object modified

Object removed from the container

Workflow state changed

Possible use cases Moving contents Logging content modifications Providing notifications Sending mail messages

Moving contents

Logging content modifications

Providing notifications

Sending mail messages

C.R.E. @ work Example: Improving the way we manage news.

Example: Improving the way we manage news.

Manage our News Items Move news items to the news section, when published Adding the rule Setting the condition(s) Setting the action(s) Assigning the rule to folders within the site

Move news items to the news section, when published

Adding the rule

Setting the condition(s)

Setting the action(s)

Assigning the rule to folders within the site

Adding the rule

The conditions

The action(s)

Assign the rule to folders. Test !

Other examples Track content removal Pre-populating a folder (MemberFolder ?) with content

Track content removal

Pre-populating a folder (MemberFolder ?) with content

Wanted: Populate folder action # In plone.app.contentrules.actions.populate class IPopulateAction(Interface): """Interface for the configurable aspects of a populate action. """ skeleton_folder = schema.Choice(title=_(u"Skeleton folder"), description=_(u"As a path relative to the portal root."), required=True, source=SearchableTextSourceBinder({'is_folderish' : True}))

# In plone.app.contentrules.actions.populate

class IPopulateAction(Interface):

"""Interface for the configurable aspects of a populate action.

"""

skeleton_folder = schema.Choice(title=_(u"Skeleton folder"),

description=_(u"As a path relative to the portal root."),

required=True,

source=SearchableTextSourceBinder({'is_folderish' : True}))

Conclusion Powerful Extensible Use it when it makes sense !

Powerful

Extensible

Use it when it makes sense !

Thanks ! Thank You, The Plone Rock Stars !

Thank You, The Plone Rock Stars !