Plone 3.0 templates: Customizing the document actions

Posted on fredag, februar 13, 2009 @ 18:35:58 by david

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In Plone 2.5, the document actions (print this, send this), are located at the top of each page as a link with an icon. In Plone 3.0 the document actions are now at the bottom of the page as a link without an icon.



So how do I move the links to the top and get the icons back?

Moving the Plone document action links (Plone 3.1.6)

  1. Go into the ZMI (Zope Management Interface)
  2. Open the portal_actions folder
  3. Open the folder for document_actions
  4. Use the checkbox for the action you want to move, and select either up, down, top, or bottom.

Doesnt quite work, I see.

UPDATE Feb 11, 2009

This only moves the icons or links around inside the document_actions area itself... thats no help.

Problem with working through the web:
Some customizations of components aren't possible (e.g. can't move viewlets between viewlet managers)

Ref. the Plone Theme Manual - 6.8.15. Document Actions

It looks like it may have to be done in the product, so its still an ongoing investigation...

UPDATE Feb 13, 2009 (Friday the 13th) :)

Customizing in your own product - This is the only way to do it I guess. Not all that easy if you ask me.

Thanks again to Joel David - @jlnd

 

Using Icons with the Plone document action links (Plone 3.1.6) - part 1

  1. Go into the ZMI (Zope Management Interface)
  2. Open the portal_actions folder
  3. Open the folder for document_actions
  4. Open the print (Print this) item
  5. Add "string:$portal_url/print_icon.gif" for Icon (Expression)
  6. Do the same for Send to, RSS and the others to use the icons that come with Plone 3.x

Using Icons with the Plone document action links (Plone 3.1.6) - part 2

  1. Go into the ZMI (Zope Management Interface)
  2. Open portal_view_customizations
  3. Under Zop.interface.Interface, open plone.abovecontenttitle.documentactions
  4. Click on Customize and replace this code:

 

 <a href="" tal:attributes="href daction/url; title daction/description" tal:content="daction/title"></a>

 

With this code (standard Plone install)

 

<a href="" tal:attributes="href daction/url; title daction/description">
<img tal:condition="daction/icon" tal:attributes="src daction/icon; alt daction/title; title daction/title" />
<tal:action tal:condition="not:daction/icon" tal:content="daction/title" i18n:translate="">
Action name
</tal:action>
</a>

 

UPDATE: Thanks to Joel David @jlnd for this update...

With this code (Clouseau installed):

<a href="" tal:attributes="href daction/url; title daction/description">
<img tal:condition="daction/icon|nothing" tal:attributes="src daction/icon; alt daction/title; title daction/title" />
<tal:action tal:condition="not:daction/icon" tal:content="daction/title" i18n:translate="">
Action name
</tal:action>
</a>

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