I'm on Plone 5 and I want to modify the number of columns that are shown by default on /folder_contents.
If I recall correctly, the whole table is a pattern that gets initialized with quite a huge JSON data-xxx parameter on the corresponding tag.
So, should I dig into the JSON or rather put my attention on the JS pattern?
Is there any documentation on how to customize it anywhere? A quick google search didn't show up anything relevant to me :-/
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Have anyone tried to have a form with MultiValueField in Magnolia having Composite fields with i18n enabled and is working properly?
Currently, I'm encountering some weird behaviour when adding items to English then switching to other language and adding items again then switch back to English with items all gone. In one JIRA post it said it was already fixed but I still encounter this issue. Also encountered issues in sorting which apparently not supported by the DelegatingMultiValueTransformer.
If so, can you please show me the configuration you use to make this work properly? If needed customisation, can you give me ideas on how to do it?
Would really appreciate any help on this.
Btw, I'm using the latest release 5.4.6 now.
Maybe you don't want to put two questions in one request in the future ;)
Re language issue:
did you check that you have i18n enabled also on the subfields, since you are using deletage transformer? AFAIK with delegate you need to have them enabled on all fields in the hierarchy.
Re transformer & ordering:
IMO the only way out is to write custom transformer. Look at source code of MultiValueTransformer and in the part of the code where it goes just two levels down when checking child values, you need to go deeper.
You would also need to define different structure storage for your values there since one used by the MultiValueTransformer would not suffice for multiple levels.
Perhaps you can extend one of the more specialized MultiValue*Transformer or perhaps you try MultiValueJSONTransformer if storing all values in json array is enough for you (you would still need to extend it and to repopulate values back into dialog when opening dialog for editing).
HTH,
Jan
I am a user, not a programmer, whose forthcoming new website on Plone 4 requires adding hyperlinks inside the Description field of pages and folders. This is needed to point specific words to our website Dictionary as we had been doing on EZ Publish for the last 10 years.
Our developer says this can't be done in Plone. I'm looking to help them find how to do this (they don't seem to use English-language forums).
Is there an existing add-on or existing code for this? If not, is it possible to code this in? How? If not, will it become standard in Plone 5?
<a href="http://python.org>Python</a> will not work, as the description-field is ment and used as a meta-information of an item, holding plain-text only, and doesn't allow the usage of html-elements, nor embedded Javascript. That's probably why T. K. Nguyen recommends to provide an additional rich-text-field.
But you can use reStrucuredText instead. Tell your developer to exchange the description-snippet in concerned templates to:
<div tal:define="Std modules/Products.PythonScripts/standard;
restructured_text nocall: Std/restructured_text;"
tal:content="structure python: restructured_text(context.Description())">
</div>
It will transform any word starting with 'http:' or 'https:' to a link, furthermore will also recognize mail-addresses like 'someone#plone.org' and transform them to mail-links (on click opens the user's default mail-client, if available, with the address pre-populated in the 'To'-field).
If you want to have named links, use the reStrucutredText-syntax for the input, like this:
`Check out Python`_, you'll love it.
`Write a mail`_ to someone.
.. _Python: http://www.python.org
.. _Write a mail: someone#example.org
The tricky part is to figure out, which templates are affected, but it's doable of my experience (did it with preserving line-breaks in listing-views, not reStructuredText).
Alternatively use a JS-workaround, as proposed by T. K. Nguyen. Be aware though, that it may break accessibility to some users.
It is possible to customize the description fields to be rich text (HTML) instead of plain text, but it requires a developer.
You can also use JavaScript to look at a description field and replace (for example) any string that starts with "http" with a hyperlink pointing to that URL. Your developer would have to look for examples of such JavaScript code and then would have to know how to register it on your site and then invoke it.
This describes how to do something similar, for PloneFormGen field help text (which is also plain text):
https://designinterventionsystems.com/blog/how-to-make-urls-clickable-in-ploneformgen-field-help-text
It might be easier to have your developer create a new rich-text description field and have all your content types include that new field. That, however, would require that you update the view templates for those modified content types. This is much easier with Dexterity, which ships with Plone 5 and is available for use with Plone 4.x.
imho it's a really bad idea to convert the description field to any richttext (html, rst, md) field. You need to change a hole bunch of templates to avoid html code rendered everywhere.
Example:
search
collections
content
portlets
Addons
The description is also often used as title attribute on links, in those cases you need to convert it to plain/text. And there are several more issues, where you could ran into.
As #T. Kim Nguyen wrote: Consider add a new textfield and show it, where necessary, probably implemented as a Viewlet in the below title slot.
Looking at your current site, it seems like you want this to provide a teaser for each article, which may contain links. If that is the case, then you can find other ways to do this without making the description html.
For instance, if you used collective.cover for your portal/collection pages then a Rich Text Tile would allow you to cut down the the object text to an appropriate size, but still edit it with a Rich Text editor, and keep/insert hyperlinks.
With alfresco advanced search form I would like to perform search by ajax and display the list of search results in the same page (without reloading the page).
Is it possible?
Is there a recommended way to do it?
Thank you in advance
So if I understand you clearly you don't want the page to reload.
Sure that's possible!
Do you start by hacking into the advanced search form or do you create a new page just for this is maybe the first question.
You can do it either way. Probably the latter is easier to maintain and less hacking and you can use a client-site Library of your preference.
If you want to keep the default form you just need to change the following files
advsearch.js, the client-side YUI file which gets run on the form and does the submit
/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/search/advsearch.get.html.ftl, the html file which has all the div's etc. defined.
So change the client-side library to do the search directly to the repo, take a look at search.js and use the method.
Then define in your template the search results area from search.get.html.ftl.
So basically you're merging these 2 components into 1 big one.
I'm working on have a property listing asp.NET website and the current search function is pretty crappy. I want to know if I can use the Google Custom Search API to extract the results but still present them in the same way there are now (comprehensive listing items with pricing, images, etc. Here's the current look: http://temporadaplus.com/Aluguel-Por-Temporada.aspx?pais=Brasil ). Each listing item is created via a .NET itemtype. SO basically all I need is to know how to go about using Google's much better results without altering anything visually.
I came across this question here but I am not sure its exactly what I;m looking for. Any ideas or comments are appreciated.
I'm looking for the way for the site's administrator / moderator to find / filter the list of nodes by some field custom value. Field value could be defined by radio / text / checkbox etc.
Default content listing proposes only few filters, it's not enough for sites with huge amount of custom nodes.
Use an EntityFieldQuery object, documented here:
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--entity.inc/class/EntityFieldQuery/7
The documentation has no examples (ugh), but there's a thread here with some:
http://drupal.org/node/916776
EDIT: Ah, you're talking about administration and not actually writing a module to do it. If that's the case, use a view with exposed filters, like the other guy said. :)
Maybe it would help to use a view for it, where you set filters, so that you get the desired listing.
I had to test this, but I've just confirmed. Views in Drupal 7 can indeed filter across multiple content types w/ custom fields, and still have filters apply to those custom fields. They seem to treat the nodes w/o those custom fields as empty or null values.
So for instance, I have article and blog content types. Blog has images, article does not. I can sort or filter on the image field, even though article doesn't have it. It simply assumes the field is null or empty.
This however, may not solve your problem of having a large number of custom fields. If these are dynamic (i.e. they grow over time) you might be in trouble. If, however, they are set, and just a very large number, you could manage this.
So while there is no automatic add all fields, which I believe you mentioned in a previous post, you could feasibly search on a large variety of the fields. Even exposing fields that you don't necessarily display in the table, but can then search on. Or changing the fields you expose or display on a per page basis in the view. All from one view. And then you could export the view to bring it over to the other sites.
I was going to try and attach the exported view, but the export is rather large for inclusion in an answer, I think. Please let me know if you think I should still include it, or if you'd rather I can simply send it to you through a PM. Let me know!
EDIT: I decided to include a link to an export of the view. http://greggalante.com/sites/greggalante.com/files/cross_type_view.txt
http://drupal.org/project/search_api