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.
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Calvin Hendryx Parker Tips For Migrating Apps To Plone 3
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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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Zope Won’t Start
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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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Getting Current
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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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Life Changing Decisions
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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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ZCML
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<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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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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GenericSetup
• Replaces Customization Policies
• Replaces the old Install.py for QuickInstaller
• Upgrade Steps
Versatile One Time Steps
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<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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Setting up Versioning
• GenericSetup export/import broken
• Setup via a setup handler
• Register via your product
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<?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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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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People Skills
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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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New Roles
• Reader
• Editor
• Contributor
Add your custom add permissions to this role
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Portlets
• Viewlets
• Viewlet Manager
• Classic Portlet
Performance Issues
left and right slots properties gone
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<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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Leverage Other New
Features
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Additional Markup and Field
Support
• textile
• markdown
• wiki style linking
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Don’t Forget the Basics
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Catalog Enhancements
• ExtendedPathIndex
• New Date Indexes
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Leverage the Registries
• CSS
• Javascript
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