Plone has undergone several rounds of changes and developers need to make sure their applications evolve with it in a graceful manner. Review powerful new tools that have been created to ease Plone development. Learn how your products can take advantage of Plone 3's improved user-experience. Unleash the power of Zope 3 using Five to utilize views, viewlets, events and utilities. Learn how to leverage migration steps in GenericSetup. Find out what methods are now deprecated in Plone 3. Developers will walk away with the knowledge needed to keep their applications current.

1. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Tips for Migrating Apps to
Plone 3
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Questions?
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How Do We Get There?
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4. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Zope Won’t Start
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5. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Deprecated Methods and Imports
• Products.CMFCore.CMFPermissions
Products.CMFCore.permissions
• Products.CMFPlone.utils.BrowserView
Products.Five.BrowserView
• toPortalTime finally gone
• toLocalizedTime now in the @@plone view
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6. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Getting Current
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7. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Update your type info
• Remove Sharing Tab
• Remove Properties Tab
• Add Lock Awareness to the Edit Tab
condition_expr=quot;not:object/
@@plone_lock_info/
is_locked_for_current_user|python:Truequot;
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8. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Life Changing Decisions
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9. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Taking Advantage of Zope 3
• View Classes
• Create Utilities instead of Portal Tools
• Use MenuItems to add custom Actions
• Zope 3 Events
manage_afterAdd
manage_beforeDelete
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10. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
ZCML
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11. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
<configure
xmlns=quot;http://namespaces.zope.org/zopequot;>
<subscriber
for=quot;Products.OER.interfaces.IOERItem
OFS.interfaces.IObjectWillBeRemovedEventquot;
handler=quot;.subscribers.deleteSubmissionsquot;/>
<subscriber
for=quot;Products.OER.interfaces.IOERTag
zope.app.event.interfaces.IObjectModifiedEventquot;
handler=quot;.subscribers.checkTagsquot;/>
<subscriber
for=quot;Products.OER.interfaces.IOERSubmission
OFS.interfaces.IObjectWillBeAddedEventquot;
handler=quot;.subscribers.changeStateHomeFolderquot;/>
</configure>
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12. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
def deleteSubmissions(self, event):
quot;quot;quot;
Delete the submissions attached to the object we just come from deleting
quot;quot;quot;
item = event.object
# we delete the tags/ratings/reviews/notes associated with this item
ps = getToolByName(self, 'portal_submissions')
pc = getToolByName(self, 'portal_catalog')
targets = ps.getTargets(item)
...
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13. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
GenericSetup
• Replaces Customization Policies
• Replaces the old Install.py for QuickInstaller
• Upgrade Steps
Versatile One Time Steps
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14. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
<configure
xmlns=quot;http://namespaces.zope.org/zopequot;
xmlns:genericsetup=quot;http://namespaces.zope.org/genericsetupquot;
i18n_domain=quot;plonequot;>
<genericsetup:registerProfile
name=quot;defaultquot;
title=quot;AdvancedDocument Profilequot;
directory=quot;profiles/defaultquot;
description=quot;Extension profile for the AdvancedDocument Productquot;
provides=quot;Products.GenericSetup.interfaces.EXTENSIONquot;
/>
<genericsetup:upgradeStep
title=quot;Update Catalogquot;
description=quot;Update the Catalogquot;
source=quot;0.4quot;
destination=quot;0.5quot;
handler=quot;Products.AdvancedDocument.upgrades.updatecatalog.updateCatalogquot;
sortkey=quot;1quot;
profile=quot;Products.AdvancedDocument:defaultquot;
/>
</configure>
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16. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Setting up Versioning
• GenericSetup export/import broken
• Setup via a setup handler
• Register via your product
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17. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
<?xml version=quot;1.0quot;?>
<import-steps>
<import-step id=quot;versioningsetupquot; version=quot;20070828-01quot;
handler=quot;Products.AdvancedDocument.exportimport.versioningsetup.versioningSetupquot;
title=quot;Versioning Setupquot;>
<dependency step=quot;contentquot;/>
Add versioning on our selected content types
</import-step>
</import-steps>
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18. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
def versioningSetup(context):
quot;quot;quot;Setup portal_factory
quot;quot;quot;
site = context.getSite()
portal_repository = getToolByName(site, 'portal_repository')
portal_diff = getToolByName(site, 'portal_diff')
versionable_types = list(portal_repository.getVersionableContentTypes())
type_ids = ['AdvancedDocument', ]
for type_id in type_ids:
if type_id not in versionable_types:
versionable_types.append(type_id)
for policy_id in DEFAULT_POLICIES:
portal_repository.addPolicyForContentType(type_id, policy_id)
diff_res = portal_diff.getDiffForPortalType(type_id)
if not diff_res:
portal_diff.manage_addDiffField(type_id, 'any', 'Compound Diff for AT types')
portal_repository.setVersionableContentTypes(versionable_types)
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19. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
People Skills
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20. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
GRUF and PAS
• PAS added as default in 2.5
• GRUF completely removed in 3.0
• User and Group Searching Done via PAS
directly
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21. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
New Roles
• Reader
• Editor
• Contributor
Add your custom add permissions to this role
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22. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Portlets
• Viewlets
• Viewlet Manager
• Classic Portlet
Performance Issues
left and right slots properties gone
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23. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
<configure xmlns=quot;http://namespaces.zope.org/zopequot;
xmlns:plone=quot;http://namespaces.plone.org/plonequot;>
<plone:portlet
name=quot;portlets.Adsquot;
interface=quot;.portlets.ads.IAdPortletquot;
assignment=quot;.portlets.ads.Assignmentquot;
renderer=quot;.portlets.ads.Rendererquot;
addview=quot;.portlets.ads.AddFormquot;
editview=quot;.portlets.ads.EditFormquot;
/>
</configure>
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24. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Leverage Other New
Features
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25. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Additional Markup and Field
Support
• textile
• markdown
• wiki style linking
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26. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Don’t Forget the Basics
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27. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Catalog Enhancements
• ExtendedPathIndex
• New Date Indexes
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28. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Leverage the Registries
• CSS
• Javascript
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29. Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker 10.11.2007
Questions?
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