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10.11.2007Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3

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Questions?





How Do We Get There?





Zope Won’t Start



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Tips for Migrating Apps to Plone 3 - Calvin Hendryx-Parker

• Products.CMFCore.CMFPermissions

Products.CMFCore.permissions

• Products.CMFPlone.utils.BrowserView

Products.Five.BrowserView

• toPortalTime finally gone

• toLocalizedTime now in the @@plone view

Deprecated Methods and Imports





Getting Current



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• Remove Sharing Tab

• Remove Properties Tab

• Add Lock Awareness to the Edit Tab

condition_expr="not:object/@@plone_lock_info/is_locked_for_current_user|python:True"

Update your type info





Life Changing Decisions



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• View Classes

• Create Utilities instead of Portal Tools

• Use MenuItems to add custom Actions

• Zope 3 Events

manage_afterAdd

manage_beforeDelete

Taking Advantage of Zope 3





ZCML





<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope">

<subscriber for="Products.OER.interfaces.IOERItem OFS.interfaces.IObjectWillBeRemovedEvent" handler=".subscribers.deleteSubmissions"/>

<subscriber for="Products.OER.interfaces.IOERTag zope.app.event.interfaces.IObjectModifiedEvent" handler=".subscribers.checkTags"/>

<subscriber for="Products.OER.interfaces.IOERSubmission OFS.interfaces.IObjectWillBeAddedEvent" handler=".subscribers.changeStateHomeFolder"/>

</configure>



http://namespaces.zope.org/zope




def deleteSubmissions(self, event): """ Delete the submissions attached to the object we just come from deleting """ 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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• Replaces Customization Policies

• Replaces the old Install.py for QuickInstaller

• Upgrade Steps

Versatile One Time Steps

GenericSetup





<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope" xmlns:genericsetup="http://namespaces.zope.org/genericsetup" i18n_domain="plone">

<genericsetup:registerProfile name="default" title="AdvancedDocument Profile" directory="profiles/default" description="Extension profile for the AdvancedDocument Product" provides="Products.GenericSetup.interfaces.EXTENSION" />

<genericsetup:upgradeStep title="Update Catalog" description="Update the Catalog" source="0.4" destination="0.5" handler="Products.AdvancedDocument.upgrades.updatecatalog.updateCatalog" sortkey="1" profile="Products.AdvancedDocument:default" /></configure>





http://namespaces.zope.org/genericsetup

http://namespaces.zope.org/genericsetup

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Setting up Versioning• GenericSetup export/import broken

• Setup via a setup handler

• Register via your product





<?xml version="1.0"?><import-steps>

<import-step id="versioningsetup" version="20070828-01" handler="Products.AdvancedDocument.exportimport.versioningsetup.versioningSetup" title="Versioning Setup"> <dependency step="content"/> Add versioning on our selected content types </import-step> </import-steps>





def versioningSetup(context): """Setup portal_factory """ 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)





People Skills



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• PAS added as default in 2.5

• GRUF completely removed in 3.0

• User and Group Searching Done via PAS directly

GRUF and PAS



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• Reader

• Editor

• Contributor

Add your custom add permissions to this role

New Roles



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• Viewlets

• Viewlet Manager

• Classic Portlet

Performance Issues

left and right slots properties gone

Portlets





<configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope" xmlns:plone="http://namespaces.plone.org/plone"> <plone:portlet name="portlets.Ads" interface=".portlets.ads.IAdPortlet" assignment=".portlets.ads.Assignment" renderer=".portlets.ads.Renderer" addview=".portlets.ads.AddForm" editview=".portlets.ads.EditForm" />

</configure>





http://namespaces.plone.org/plone

http://namespaces.plone.org/plone



Leverage Other New Features



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• textile

• markdown

• wiki style linking

Additional Markup and Field Support





Don’t Forget the Basics



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• ExtendedPathIndex

• New Date Indexes

Catalog Enhancements



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• CSS

• Javascript

Leverage the Registries





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