Plone 3.0 - Templates and Skins, all held together by rubberbands.
Posted on torsdag, februar 26, 2009 @ kl. 10.33 by david
Plone is a HUGE system which was obviously planned by programmers. Trying to move sections/viewlets around in the templates is not impossible, but not something a designer can do from the /@@manage-viewlets interface.
While working on a recent project I was asked about making some relatively simple changes to the site, but after further investigation, turns out to be near impossible.
1. Change "send this" and "print this" to use icons and move them to the top of the template. These are all called document actions, and customizing them is pretty much a nightmare. Read my other blog article about Plone 3 templates: Customizing the document actions.
2. Moving the Portal Personal Tools (preferences, etc) down into the left or right column of the content area.
This request seems like an easy one, but is really a HUGE pain in the ass.
This "portal-personaltools" is considered a Viewlet. Viewlets live inside of Viewlet Managers.
Normally you can just add /@@manage-viewlets to the end of the URL and get a slick interface for moving viewlets around inside their viewlet manager on the page.
But moving a viewlet into a new viewlet manager is not as easy... here is an article from the Plone documentation about how to achieve this.
