Add-on Products for Plone (part 2)

Add-on Products for Plone
(part 2)

Table of Contents

PloneFlashUpload

Plone4Artists Video

Slideshow Folder

PloneTrueGallery

Faceted Navigation

Singing & Dancing

PloneFlashUpload

PloneFlashUpload Authors

Rocky Burt (ServerZen) Plone, Zope 2, and Zope 3 developer and consultant.

Plone4ArtistsCalendar, Site, Video and Audio, BlobFile, pythonproducts, Plone Time Tracker, Feedfeeder, Dynamic Top Nav

Nate Aune (Jazkarta) a is founder of the Plone4Artists project; 2nd erm on the Plone Foundation Board; chair of the Plone Marketing committee.

Plone4ArtistsCalendar, Video, andSite, CMF Bibliography AT, ATPhoto, ATVideo, ATAudio, PloneMultimedia

PloneFlashUpload

Current release:

PloneFlashUpload 1.0

released June 5, 2007

tested with Plone 2.1.4, Plone 2.5+, Zope 2.9+

PloneFlashUpload

PloneFlashUpload tool lets you upload multiple files

The files are uploaded in bulk using a Flash-based tool in the browser

PloneFlashUpload Usage

adds an upload tab to folders which leads to an upload form

upload form uses a flash applet to provide the ability to upload multiple files simultaneously

PloneFlashUpload Usage

a progress bar indicator for each file

an overall progress bar indicator

Plone4Artists Video

Plone4Artists Video Authors

Rocky Burt (ServerZen) Plone, Zope 2, and Zope 3 developer and consultant.

Plone4ArtistsCalendar, Site, Video and Audio, BlobFile, pythonproducts, Plone Time Tracker, Feedfeeder, Dynamic Top Nav, Plone Flash Upload

Nate Aune (Jazkarta) a is founder of the Plone4Artists project; 2nd erm on the Plone Foundation Board; chair of the Plone Marketing committee.

Plone4ArtistsCalendar, Video, andSite, CMF Bibliography AT, ATPhoto, ATVideo, ATAudio, PloneMultimedia, Plone Flash Upload

Plone4Artists Video

Current release:

Plone4Artists Video 1.1

released April 14, 2008

tested with Plone 2.5, Plone 3.0

Plone4Artists Video

Plone4Artists Video adds videos to your Plone site, it supports:

uploading of video files

embedding of videos that are hosted on other video sharing sites.

Plone4Artists Video

Video files

upload a normal File to your Plone site (NO NEW CONTENT TYPES)

Plone auto-recognizes it as a video file, extracts metadata and chooses an appropriate player

video edit form exposes metadata: file type, author, height, width, duration

upload a thumbnail image to represent the video

Plone4Artists Video

support for:

Quicktime (MOV, MP4),

Windows Media (WMV, AVI, WMA, ASF)

RealMedia (RAM)

Flash (FLV, SWF)

Plone4Artists Video

Plone4Artists Video

Video links

add a link

Plone auto-recognizes it as a video link, and embeds an appropriate video player

Plone4Artists Video

support for:

video player support for Youtube, Yahoo Video, Revver, Vimeo, Vmix, Blip.tv, iFilm, MySpace, MetaCafe, uStream

metadata extraction support for Youtube, Google Video, Blip.tv and Revver. (extracted metadata includes thumbnail, title, description, tags, author)

Plone4Artists Video

Video containers (Folders)

subtypes menu of folder containing videos

select video container

Video containers (Collections)

specify item type as a criteria for the collection -> file as the item type

select video container from subtypes menu

Plone4Artists Video

default file listing -> stylish video listing view

thumbnail

title, description

metadata

tags

ratings

comments

Plone4Artists Video

Plone4Artists Video

Video feeds

RSS feed of all the videos in a video container

Feed entries can contain a link to the video view page, or a link to the actual video file

Users can subscribe to a podcast and have the videos downloaded to a desktop video player such as iTunes or Miro for offline viewing

Plone4Artists Video

Video feedback / commentary

Users can rate videos (1 to 5 stars) - Content Rating product

Users can tag videos and Plone keeps track of your tags and everyone's tags

Users can comment on videos. Other users can reply to those comments in a threaded discussion

Plone4Artists Video: Use

http://plone.tv

http://plug.org.ua

Slideshow Folder

Slideshow Folder Author

written by Johnpaul Burbank

Jon Baldivieso

initial concept, project management and a few tweaks by One/Northwest, including:

Jon Stahl

Andrew Burkhalter

Slideshow Folder

Current release:

Slideshow Folder 4.0

Released Jul 30, 2008

Tested with Plone 3.1, Plone 3.0, Plone 2.5

Slideshow Folder

Slideshow Folder provides a simple, elegant animated slideshow for Plone.

Turns ordinary Images, Folders or Smart Folders into full-featured interactive animated slideshows.

Slideshow Folder Uses

Zope 3 development techniques
(to enable normal Plone Folders, Collections and Images with configurable slideshow views)

Aeron Glemann's "Slideshow 2" javascript library.
Slideshow Folder integrates the Slideshow 2 javascript class into Plone. (Slideshow 2 is a powerful, feature-rich, easy-to-customize slideshow library)

Slideshow Folder Features

No new content types

Animated slideshows with configurable transitions

Intelligent preloading of images to save bandwidth

Optional support for "lightbox" style image pop-ups

Look and feel completely customizable via CSS

Slideshow Folder Use

Folders and Collections have a new option in its action menu make slideshow.

Slideshow view gives you a new Slideshow Settings configuration tab. As soon as there are published images in the folder, you'll see the slideshow.

image's Description is used for its caption.

Each slideshow has an disable slideshow option in the action menu.

Slideshow folder settings

Slideshow Width and Height (px)

Slide Duration, Transition Time (sec)

Thumbnail Mode - Navigation thumbnails

Fast Mode

Show Captions

Show Controller - play/pause/forward/reverse

Random order

Loop Slideshow

Link images

Slideshow Folder

Plone True Gallery

Plone True Gallery Author

Nathan Van Gheem

ATImageEditor,Plone True Gallery

Plone True Gallery

Current release:

Plone True Gallery 0.5.2

Released Jul 30, 2008

tested with Plone 3.1, Plone 3.0

Plone True Gallery: Features

cross browser compatibility

dynamically loads images (so large galleries don't try to load everything at once)

no extra javascript library dependencies

support for picasa and flickr galleries

nest galleries

Plone True Gallery: Dependencies

simplejson

Gdata (recommended)

Flickrapi (recommended)

Plone True Gallery in Use

Add new 'gallery'

Define gallery's behavior:

Image size

Fade in/out duration & transition

Info panel & carousel display

Type

Add images/subgallery into the gallery

Plone True Gallery: Types

Default - uses Plone to manage images

Flickr - uses Flickr Set

username/id of the flickr account

name/id of the flickr set

Picasa - uses Picasa Web Album

Email address of the album's owner

Password (if private album)

Name of the Picasa album

Plone True Gallery: sub-gallery

Faceted Navigation

Faceted Navigation Author

Pilot Systems:

Plone Gazette, CMFNotifications, HTTPUniqAuth, StagingAddOn, Plone MultiSync, MailNode, Blue DCS, CFPaypalHelper, Plone Contact Folder

Damien Baty - original author, tests, documentation, maintenance

Faceted Navigation

Current release:

Faceted Navigation 0.6

released August 14, 2008

tested with Plone 3.1, Plone 3.0, Zope 2.10, Zope 2.9

Faceted Navigation

Provides an user interface which lets an user browse items of a Plone site by selecting amongst pre-defined criteria.

Faceted Navigation in Use (1)

configure facets (i.e. criteria), which are linked to default or custom catalog indexes:

Site Setup -> Configuration of the faceted navigation

Faceted navigation configuration

Faceted navigation configuration

Meta types to include - restrict available items in the faceted navigation by their type.

List of facets (left and right columns)

Sort matching items - index used to sort these items, and the order.

Batch configuration how much items to display on each page; how much page to show in the batch navigation.

Faceted Navigation in Use (2)

a new link appears in the portal actions bar: "Faceted navigation"

Faceted Navigation in Use (3)

the link leads to an user interface that lets the user browse portal items via a faceted navigation.

Singing & Dancing

Singing & Dancing Author

Daniel Nouri - independent software consultant and Plone developer

Archetypes, httpslogin, Orderable Reference Field, ZopeSkel, pluggablecatalog

Singing & Dancing

Current release:

Singing & Dancing 0.5.0

Released Aug 5, 2008

tested with Plone 3.1, Plone 3.0

Singing & Dancing: Features

Next generation newsletter add-on for Plone

Modern and extensible

uses z3c.form library

Zope 3 Component Architecture

Well tested (200+ tests)

Singing & Dancing: Features

Fully manageable through the Plone interface

Uses confirmed subscriptions

Users can subscribe through:

standard subscription form

individual subscription forms

Singing & Dancing: Configuration

How to configure newsletter sending?

channels management

collectors management

newsletter statistics

Singing & Dancing: Channels

Channels management screen lists all channels in your site (default channel: Newsletter).

Singing & Dancing : Channels

Edit tab: allows to rename a channel and add channel description.

Singing & Dancing : Channels

Subscriptions tab: manage the subscribers.

Singing & Dancing : Channels

Composers tab: configure what stylesheets are used, what the e-mail header fields will be.

Singing & Dancing : Channels

Preview tab: e-mail's preview.

Singing & Dancing in Use

What goes into the e-mail?

1. You send individual pages or news items of your site manually.

2. Singing & Dancing automatically collects and sends items in your portal according to rules that you set up.

Singing & Dancing in Use

1. Manual sending of individual pages

Singing & Dancing in Use

Singing & Dancing in Use

2. Automatic collection and sending of items in the portal with Singing & Dancing

select a collector for the channel

Go to that collector's configuration screen

Singing & Dancing in Use

Collector configuration screen allows to specify what content ends up in a newsletter and what doesn't.

Standard SmartFolder with certain criteria

Singing & Dancing: Example

add a normal News Item

it will be found by SmartFolder

It will be sent out as a newsletter

Singing & Dancing

How will your users subscribe to the newsletter?

1. Add /subscribe.html to the URL of the newsletter

Singing & Dancing

2. Subscribe through a portlet

Singing & Dancing goes with its own Plone portlet for subscription.

Use the Manage portlets link

add a Channel subscribe portlet

configure that portlet

Singing & Dancing

Singing & Dancing in Use

Singing & Dancing: Sections

Subscribers can choose which of the categories they're interested in.

2 categories of news items: Sports & Politics.

Add two folders to our Plone site: Sports News and Politics News

Configure the collector: add 2 subscriber-optional collections that collect any items from either Sports News or Politics News folder

Singing & Dancing : Sections

Subscription form has now two options:

Singing & Dancing: Scheduler

When is the newsletter sent?

go to the channels management screen

select a scheduler for the channel

edit the scheduler

activate it

Singing & Dancing in Use

By selecting an appropriate time for the Triggered last time field, we can define at which time of the day the newsletter is going out.

Singing & Dancing: Statistics

Questions?