This document summarizes Richard Shea's presentation on Plone use at the Cuba Group. It discusses how Plone has been used at Cuba Group for over 3 years, initially as an experiment. Plone provides a centralized knowledge base, standards, resources, and documentation. It allows for consistency, searchability, and document management. Plone's extendability provides many options through add-ons. Richard highlights three add-ons he likes: OpenXML for searching Office files, PloneArticle for enhanced page layouts, and wsapi4plone for a web services API.

1. Plone in Business

2. About Me Richard Shea rshea@thecubagroup.com mainlydata.kubadev.com

3. This Talk Plone use at Cuba Group Why, when, how Plone – Content in 300 secs PloneExtendability Batteries++ included 3 Things I think are smart

4. Plone and Cuba Group In use for 3+ years Originally an experiment ... On an old laptop ! Driven by necessity

5. Motivation ... Or what got us into this ?

6. The Way We Are Software Solutions Vendor Variety of technologies Constant new work Support of older systems

7. Stuff On Our Plate Oracle ... ...Linux ... ... ASP.Net ... ... MySQL ... ...Python ... ...SQL Server ... ... Javascript ...CherryPy ... ... And then some ...

8. The Problem ! Distributed Workforce Distributed Time Zones Contractors – Fast Start up

9. Shoemakers Son Multiple Excel spreadsheets Access database Various home made ... Etc

10. Better Way Plone 3 Initially experiment on old laptop Now on Windows 2003 Pretty much out of the box

11. Better Way Institutional Knowledge Communications Tool Standards/Procedures

13. Knowledge Base

14. Standards

15. Resources

16. Who Office Admin Programmers HR

17. How Standards + Policies Background Detail Tips and Tricks Procedures

18. Why we like it Able to be simple Consistency Search Document Management

19. Obvious Perhaps Techology not the whole answer Knowledge Management Mindset Everyone involved

20. Content in 300 secs ... If I talk fast ...

21. Candidate Actions Add Folder Add Page Add Collection Search

22. Extendability ... Do you want ... Just about anything ... With that ?

23. Extendability ? Why, Where and What ? Why do you want to do that ? Three I like

24. Why (it’s good for us) Plone as a platform Provides niche needs Heterogeneous Data Environment

25. Why Not (Perhaps) Variable Qualities/Approaches Fear of the command line ? Applicability to Windows Hosted Plone ? Try on dev system

26. Where ? Plone has many extensions http://plone.org/products

27. Lolly Scramble ! Help in many areas Auth and User Management, Basic content types, Buildout, Commerce, Communication, Calendars/Events, Code examples, Database integration & external storage, Development tools, Documentation management, Educational, Fields and widgets, Geospatial, Internationalization, Import/Export, Layout and presentation, Media, Migration scripts, Miscellaneous, Polls/Surveys, Portlets, Project management, Statistics & reporting, Services, Theming tools, Themes, Versioning, Staging and Deployment, Weblogs, Workflow

28. My Picks OpenXML Allow search within and Office 2007 documents PloneArticle Enhanced Layout Capabilities wsapi4plone.core Web Services API

29. OpenXML Allow full-text search within Office 2007 documents .docx and .xlsx http://plone.org/products/openxml License: GPL v2

30. OpenXML Allow full-text search within Office 2007 documents .docx and .xlsx http://plone.org/products/openxml License: GPL v2

31. OpenXML Pause for Demo ?

32. PloneArticle Provides a selection of templates providing easy enhanced layout http://plone.org/products/plonearticle License: GPL v2

33. PloneArticle Provides a selection of templates providing easy enhanced layout http://plone.org/products/plonearticle License: GPL v2

34. PloneArticle Pause for Demo ?

35. wsapi4plone Plone web services API ! Plone operated by other applications http://plone.org/products/wsapi4plone.core

36. wsapi4plone Plone web services API ! Plone operated by other applications http://plone.org/products/wsapi4plone.core

37. wsapi4plone Add/Query/Management Query plone from other applictions XML-RPC

38. wsapi4plone Pause for Demo ?

39. wsapi4plone #Link up to the Zope Instance from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy client = ServerProxy('http://admin:zutalors98@localhost:8080/Plone') q=client.query() #Discover what Content Types are available types = client.get_types() #Get details of what makes a link a link link_schema = client.get_schema('Link') #Find which bits of a link are mandatory [ x for x in link_schema if link_schema[x]['required'] ] #Put link information together and add it to Plone webww = {'/Plone/food/Broccoli': [{'title': 'Broccoli', 'remoteUrl': 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli'},'Link']} webww = client.get_object(client.post_object(webww)) #Now publish the link client.set_workflow('publish','/Plone/food/Broccoli')

40. Conclusion

41. Great Things I Didn’t mention Security Workflow International Character Support Search Engine Optimization

42. Take Aways Very powerful but can be made simple Consistency a great strength Extendibility provides great options

43. Questions ? Richard Shea – Cuba Group rshea@thecubagroup.com mainlydata.kubadev.com