Comments on: Subsites in Plone: Review of info and call for sharing products, experiences, and best practices http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: catherine-w http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-61 catherine-w Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:34:04 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-61 I've just updated the WebLion team's wiki's SubsiteTheming page with details of the subsite theming products that we are currently working on, and how they fit into our vision of how subsite theming will work in Plone 3: https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/SubsiteTheming We're delighted to be collaborating (internationally!) with several other people on these products already, and we'd be very glad to work with an even bigger community. Hop on our IRC channel at #weblion to touch base with us about vision, code, documentation.... or anything else you think it could be useful for us to know. WebLion team members most involved in this at present are (in alphabetical order) catherine-w, ErikRose, pumazi and RobZoneNet. I’ve just updated the WebLion team’s wiki’s SubsiteTheming page with details of the subsite theming products that we are currently working on, and how they fit into our vision of how subsite theming will work in Plone 3:

https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/SubsiteTheming

We’re delighted to be collaborating (internationally!) with several other people on these products already, and we’d be very glad to work with an even bigger community.

Hop on our IRC channel at #weblion to touch base with us about vision, code, documentation…. or anything else you think it could be useful for us to know.

WebLion team members most involved in this at present are (in alphabetical order) catherine-w, ErikRose, pumazi and RobZoneNet.

]]> By: wouterVH http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-60 wouterVH Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:55:00 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-60 The main thing I find missing from this overview is plone.app.localconf (no webpage?) It would be very nice to have a standard way of overriding a global configurations in a subfolder. Now we have a variety of solutions related to skinning, an integrated addon-product for workflow (CMFPlacefulWorkflow), but no solutions for other local customisations like local site-actions, language, kupu-settings,... plone.app.localconf could be the solution to that. The main thing I find missing from this overview is plone.app.localconf (no webpage?)

It would be very nice to have a standard way of overriding a global configurations in a subfolder. Now we have a variety of solutions related to skinning, an integrated addon-product for workflow (CMFPlacefulWorkflow), but no solutions for other local customisations like local site-actions, language, kupu-settings,…

plone.app.localconf could be the solution to that.

]]> By: Tim Knapp http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-59 Tim Knapp Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:45:02 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-59 One other url to add to the list[1]. Found this when hacking on themetweaker.themeswitcher. Unsure of the state of it or in fact which versions of Plone it supports as there's no doco (that I could find anyway). Thanks, Tim [1] http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/browser/qLocalSkin One other url to add to the list[1]. Found this when hacking on themetweaker.themeswitcher. Unsure of the state of it or in fact which versions of Plone it supports as there’s no doco (that I could find anyway).

Thanks,
Tim

[1] http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/browser/qLocalSkin

]]> By: ifpeople http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-58 ifpeople Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:59:29 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-58 @Nate Aune - thanks for the info. There wasn't any intention to leave those out...rather it is just hard to find this stuff. I mostly searched for "microsites", "subsites", and variants thereof (and didn't see any of the links you posted). As mentioned in the title, I am actually asking people to help me find this stuff...in return centralizing the information that I find here. Looking around I can't find collective.microsite code and also seems that the JazMiniSite code isn't released yet. By compiling this information, I am hoping to allow the community to understand how much is really going on and hopefully work together more effectively. I really don't want to be contributing to reinventing the wheel - and want to help others avoid it too. Software is a liability - spread out the burden!! By the way, given how long the URL got to this, I created http://tinyurl.com/plone-subsites to make it easier to reference. @Nate Aune – thanks for the info. There wasn’t any intention to leave those out…rather it is just hard to find this stuff. I mostly searched for “microsites”, “subsites”, and variants thereof (and didn’t see any of the links you posted). As mentioned in the title, I am actually asking people to help me find this stuff…in return centralizing the information that I find here.

Looking around I can’t find collective.microsite code and also seems that the JazMiniSite code isn’t released yet.

By compiling this information, I am hoping to allow the community to understand how much is really going on and hopefully work together more effectively. I really don’t want to be contributing to reinventing the wheel – and want to help others avoid it too. Software is a liability – spread out the burden!!

By the way, given how long the URL got to this, I created http://tinyurl.com/plone-subsites to make it easier to reference.

]]> By: Nate Aune http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-57 Nate Aune Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:19:48 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-57 Hi Chris - I was surprised that you didn't mention Sidnei's SubPlone product on which I think Kurt's MassDeploy is based. http://plone.org/products/subplone https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/MassDeploy We were hoping to Martin's collective.microsite, but ended up building JazMiniSite for a customer project. http://plone.org/support/forums/core#nabble-td349929 We plan to release the JazMiniSite code as open source, so that others can build on it. Yes, I agree there are way too many solutions floating around out there, and we need to consolidate and find a definitive solution on which others can base their implementations. If Calvin's PLIP 234 is approved, I think that will be a good start. Nate Hi Chris – I was surprised that you didn’t mention Sidnei’s SubPlone product on which I think Kurt’s MassDeploy is based.
http://plone.org/products/subplone
https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/MassDeploy

We were hoping to Martin’s collective.microsite, but ended up building JazMiniSite for a customer project.
http://plone.org/support/forums/core#nabble-td349929

We plan to release the JazMiniSite code as open source, so that others can build on it.

Yes, I agree there are way too many solutions floating around out there, and we need to consolidate and find a definitive solution on which others can base their implementations.

If Calvin’s PLIP 234 is approved, I think that will be a good start.

Nate

]]> By: ifpeople http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-55 ifpeople Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:21:15 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-55 @Darryl - thanks for the link! I just added it to the overview above. @calvinhp - thanks for the fix and update! Guess that makes me part of your unintentionally built "get out the test" movement :) . How long till Plone 3.3 hits the ground anyway? @Darryl – thanks for the link! I just added it to the overview above.

@calvinhp – thanks for the fix and update! Guess that makes me part of your unintentionally built “get out the test” movement :) . How long till Plone 3.3 hits the ground anyway?

]]> By: Darryl Noye http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-54 Darryl Noye Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:23:17 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-54 Have you seen this: http://weblion.psu.edu/news/theme-switching-by-url-folder-page-etc Have you seen this:
http://weblion.psu.edu/news/theme-switching-by-url-folder-page-etc

]]> By: Calvin Hendryx-Parker http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-53 Calvin Hendryx-Parker Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:21:42 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-53 I have been working on PLIP 234 and it is ready for review right now. Basically if fixes all the spots where setting a INavigationRoot marker interface wasn't completely getting the job done. We are using this in combination with a custom time and a skin switching plugin that is similar to the WebLion one. With PLIP 234 commit and released in Plone 3.3 doing this subsite dance will be a lot easier. If you want to check out the work you can see it here: https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/review/plip234-inavigationroot-fixes/ Cal I have been working on PLIP 234 and it is ready for review right now. Basically if fixes all the spots where setting a INavigationRoot marker interface wasn’t completely getting the job done. We are using this in combination with a custom time and a skin switching plugin that is similar to the WebLion one. With PLIP 234 commit and released in Plone 3.3 doing this subsite dance will be a lot easier.

If you want to check out the work you can see it here:

https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/review/plip234-inavigationroot-fixes/

Cal

]]> By: Steve McMahon http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/subsites-in-plone-review-of-info-and-call-for-sharing-products-experiences-and-best-practices/#comment-52 Steve McMahon Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54:05 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-52 Thanks for the great overview. Regarding PloneMiniPortals: it works through Plone 2.5.x, but is an architectural dead end. I've used it successfully in our local community network to contain 70+ local organizations inside a single Plone instance and it's worked well. But, I'll be looking to some of the newer solutions when we're ready for Plone 3.x. Thanks for the great overview.

Regarding PloneMiniPortals: it works through Plone 2.5.x, but is an architectural dead end. I’ve used it successfully in our local community network to contain 70+ local organizations inside a single Plone instance and it’s worked well. But, I’ll be looking to some of the newer solutions when we’re ready for Plone 3.x.

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