I need to edit a existing form in plone - plone

I've never used plone but I need to edit a form to add a field. I've already looked everywhere but I can't find anything to do this, is there portal_type?
It's a big problem we have on my company, last programmer ran away and left us with Plone :\
Thanks.

Look at your URL, find the Name View, the last Part of url, e.g /fileupload-form
Search with grep on the Commandline in your Productfolder to the Name, you can find a Browserview with the Name 'fileupload-form'
Look at the Definition in the zcml-File you can find the Classdefinition of View/Form
Search the Interface of Form, it could be defined like:
class IMyForm(form.Schema):
""" Define form fields """
name = schema.TextLine(
title=u"Your name",
)
add a new Field of Type NamedBlobFile or NamedFile, look in the Documentation Example

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How do I make a node title translatable?

I'd like to translate each node title as a string (using i18n). I'm trying this function in my theme template:
function theme_process_page(&$variables) {
$variables['title'] = t($variables['title']);
}
Yet when I refresh strings, none of my node titles are on the list. Is there something I'm missing?
And to clarify the function name is using my theme name, not the word "theme".
Title is my usual solution for this (I use Entity Translation, it works fine with Title module).
This module replaces node titles by a regular translatable text field. You can choose wich content type titles must be replaced (on the "Manage Field" forms, you'll find a "replace" link in the title row). Pretty useful.
Good luck
You should never use t() to translate user-supplied or variable strings. See the documentation on the function.
That said, there are some solutions, one is to use the built-in language support for entity fields. Following that you should be able to do something like this in a field hook (in a module, not in your template):
$langcode = $field_info['translatable'] ? $content_langcode : LANGUAGE_NONE;
$entity->{$field_name}[$langcode][0]['value'] = t("Salut!");

Append additional event data for RSS in plone

I'd like to customize the rss feed in plone, and append information about the location, contact person, email address and phone number of an event.
Modifying the RSS.pt template I managed to add the start date:
<dc:date tal:content="python: item.context.start()"></dc:date>
But I don't know how to access the other things (guessing like item.context.mail etc doesn't work).
Can someone give me a hint about their names, or how to find information about the context attributes and their correct names?
Using Plone4.3
Be careful, if you list something that is not an event, item.context.start() will raise an error.
You can find the schema here : https://github.com/plone/Products.ATContentTypes/blob/master/Products/ATContentTypes/content/event.py

Why does my content object not show up in the portal_catalog?

I am trying to implement a basic Zope2 content type directly without using dexterity or Archetypes because I need this to be extremely lean.
from OFS.SimpleItem import SimpleItem
from Products.ZCatalog.CatalogPathAwareness import CatalogAware
from persistent.list import PersistentList
class Doculite(SimpleItem, CatalogAware):
""" implement our class """
meta_type = 'Doculite'
def __init__(self, id, title="No title", desc=''):
self.id = id
self.title = title
self.desc = desc
self.tags = PersistentList()
self.default_catalog = 'portal_catalog'
def add_tags(self, tags):
self.tags.extend(tags)
def Subject(self):
return self.tags
def indexObject(self):
self.reindex_object()
From an external method I am doing this:
def doit(self):
pc = self.portal_catalog
res1 = pc.searchResults()
o1 = self['doc1']
o1.add_tags(['test1', 'test2'])
o1.reindex_object()
res2 = pc.searchResults()
return 'Done'
I clear the catalog and run my external method. My object does not get into the catalog. But from the indexes tab, when I browse the Subject index, I can see my content item listed with the values. Both res1 and res2 and empty.
Why is my content item not showing up inside the searchResuts() of the catalog?
Plone is a full-fat content management system, if you're after something lean it's probably not the right choice (perhaps try Pyramid.)
For your content type to be a full part of a Plone site it has to fulfil a number of requirements across the Zope2, CMF and Plone layers. plone.app.content.item.Item is about the simplest base class you can get for a content item for a Plone site, though a simpler base class in itself will not really make instances of your content type any more 'lean' - an instance of a class in Python is basically just a dict and a pointer to it's class.
Most of the work on a page view will be rendering the various user interface features of a site. Rendering the schema based add/edit forms of frameworks like Archetypes and Dexterity is also relatively expensive.
I'd spend a little time profiling your application using one of the supported content type systems before putting time into building your own.
In order to see your objects in the "Catalog" tab of the portal_catalog your objects need to have a "getPhysicalPath()" method that returns a tuple representing their path (ex. ('','Plone','myobject')).
Also try to use this:
from Products.CMFCore.CMFCatalogAware import CMFCatalogAware
as base class.
You need to register your type with the catalog multiplexer. Look at the configuration in the zmi -> archetypes_tool.
I'm not sure, but you may also need a portal_type registration also...
Like Lawrence said though, you're better off just using one of the current content type frameworks if you want to be able to catalog your data with plone's portal catalog. If you can deal with a separate catalog, take a look at repoze.catalog.
Plone needs every content object to provide an "allowedRolesAndUsers" index to return the object in searchResults.
There is probably a zcml snippet that will enable this for my content type. But I was able to get things working by adding another method as follows:
def allowedRolesAndUsers(self):
return ['Manager', 'Authenticated', 'Anonymous']
CatalogAware will be removed in Zope 4 and then can't be used any more.
cf https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.ZCatalog/issues/26

Take data from a field from exsisting node and make that the default value of a field in different content type

I don't know if I'm on the right track but I'm trying to let users of my web site create there own versions of pages on my web site.
Basically I'd like to make our documentation used as a starting point where they just add details and make a new page for themselves in the process.
I have a 'book' content type that I have changed with CCK and a 'client edits' content type that uses a nodereferencefromURL widget to link itself to the book node.
So simple version of what I'm saying is I have a link on my book pages that creates a node using client edits content type. I would like to put some fields on the client edits content type that take the values of some of the fields from the book page it is linked from.
I'm sure I'm missing something as I would have thought someone would have tried this before but I can't even find a hint on how to go about this.
All I really need is a point in the right direction if my current thinking is wrong.
Current thinking is that I use a php script to get the default value for a field on the new node add screen that drags the value for a field from the book I'm linking from.
I'm thinking this is the case because there is an option for default values for the field in cck manage fields that lets you put in a php value to return a default value for your field.
Am I on the right track or is there already a module or process that does what I'm talking about and I'm just too dumb to find it.
This sounds a little strange, are your client edits going to be a diff from the original node or just coppied data?
I would prehaps do it a more simple way, just have book nodes, and have different fields disaply depending on who edits it (enable the content_permissions module). That way you can use the node clone module to create the users copy.
You will need to make a module to contain your custom php code.
I ended up using rules to save information from the user and the cloned node into hidden fields.
One that saved the original node ID into a field when ever you create content of that type unless the url ends with Clone. This means that when you create the clone the original node ID is kept in the field.
That made it easy to use a views argument that took the node ID to make the clone appear along side the original when a user visits the original page.
The second rule trick was to compute a field that saved the "store name" from the profile of the user only when saving clone content.
This meant that there was a hidden field on the clone that stored the info so I could then use another views argument to restrict the view to only people with the same store name in their profile.
I am no good with PHP but I managed to find a snippet (can't remember where) that returns the store name of the current logged in user as the argument.
global $user;
profile_load_profile($user);
return $user->profile_store_name;

Drupal Views (Page) Using Human-Friendly Path

I have CCK and Views module installed. For the sake of this question scope, I'll call the content type as Project. Projects have many Members.
Project nodes are accessible through /project/project-name. I want to be able to display list of members through path /project/project-name/members.
Is there any way to do this?
Currently I have a views setup for page display on path /project/%/members, and have the argument taken from the url. I realize I can't use "Node ID from URL" option directly since it's node name instead of node id. Therefore I tried to enable "PHP Code" argument. But the problem is, Drupal Views always assume that the parameter is "project-name" and therefore ignored my php code argument setting. Anyone knows how I might be able to do this?
Thanks
Yes, you can actually use the "Node ID from URL" option, and you should.
Use the path or pathauto module to generate human-readable URLs for your projects in the form project/project-name. This will create a human-readable alias for the node, but the underlying Drupal system path is still node/nid.
Views can still use the "Node ID from URL" as an argument (or Contextual filter, as they are known in Drupal 7) even with human-readable aliases for those ugly paths.
If the project's name is the node title you can get what you want pretty easily.
You can pass the node title as argument instead of the nid, but the result will be the same. You get some options to use lowercase, transform - to space ect, as what you can do in a url is limited compared to a node title.
The rest of the view would be the same, as the solution using node nids in the url.
You need to create path aliases for /project/project-NID/members to /project/project-Name/members
I asked this exact question a month ago. :)
drupal link to view dependent on argument

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