1.
EASYFORM FOR
PLONE 5
Prakhar Joshi (GSOC’16)

2.
FORMS IN PLONE

3.
Archetype vs Dexterity

4.
• There is a package called collective.easyform
that provides forms for dexterity content type.
• Easyforms have less functionalities than PFG for
creating forms in Plone.

5.
Problems with Easyforms

6.
Failing Test cases

7.
ENHANCEMENTS

8.
Mailer working properly

9.
• While I was working on improving test cases for
easyform, Steve made the code more readable
and more aligned. Like shifting all interface at
one place.
• Also there were few functional as well as design
flaws that have been noticed during tests
improvements.

10.
Design Improvements in package

11.
Actions and fields for easy forms flowing in side bar

12.
Actions and fields under tab.

13.
Migration of forms

14.
Lot of options to proceed with migrations

15.
Out of options we choose to go with
control panel option.

16.
The Migration Script

17.
p.a.contenttype ?

18.
What are the other ways
??

19.
• Steve suggested to write migration for separate
fields and content types .
• We first started with test cases and then wrote
migration for the few fields.
• Migration still needs more efforts to push it live.

20.
Some PFG Fields
Migrations

21.
Summary
• Improved test cases and make the package
stable.
• Improve some designs for the package.
• Introduce install/uninstall profile for the package.
• Introduce migration framework for the package to
migrate old forms.

22.
Acknowledgment
• This project was slightly on tougher side as
compared to previous one.
• People really supported me during the whole
summer specially Steve, Davi, Tom and all the
other Developers who showed interest in the
project.

23.
• They really helped me a lot and really valued my
opinions for different problems and we came out
solution.
• This time also I have learnt a lot of stuff but this
time I learnt it with more pace and more
understanding.

24.
Thank You !!