Plone improvement ideas
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Have a more robust control panel
You should be able to tweak your site's templated replies, insert CSS & change footer HTML without ever seeing the ZMI.
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alternative content after expiration date
Anonymous user shoud see an alternative page/content instead of login page. Because Search-engines could send an user to an outdated page and they would see the login-page I think, this is not the best way...
Something like "Sorry, the page you requested is outdated" Maybe the text should be editable in the date tab
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index excel files out of the box
index excel files out of the box, now we have to install textindexng3
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Allows use of MIT's Exhibit framework to view folder and collection contents
MIT's Exhibit system offers extremely useful and powerful visualization based on viewing the same data as timelines, maps, and faceted queries. http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ Having this capability would be a huge win for Plone which could be used in many different ways
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peel rss functionality out of plone.app.portlets
currently there is much rss specific logic in the rss portlet found in plone.app.portlets which could be very useful for other modules as well. these should be peeled out in, say, plone.rss or something.
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Accordion Folder View
An accordion folder view would be nice to have. Especially when having a folder with lots of news items, "products", related objects or similar that you want to show without using a lot of space. Maybe this could be an idea for a news portlet as well (the portlet shows only news headings, but opens to show description and image)
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Categorization - Reverse link
In categorization tab of the edited page it is posible to link 2 documents in one way (from document A to document B). Make the posibiliti to also create link from B to A at the same time
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Allow (very limited) formatting in Summary
I know the Summary can only be text, according to Dublin Core rules. But it would already immensely help readability to allow linebreaks in a summary, so you can put in two short sentences with a linebreak/space in between them.
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view for collection+subcollection
If you view a collection your only see "contained collections", but you cannot see the contents of the subcollection. Image a news-site with categories (sports, politics, economy) you could list up al these categories with the say five newest entries on the startpage. To achieve this you either have to hack the collection view or use Collage or some other product. With a simple extension option "expand subcollection" to show "n" entries we would have a real great tool for many use cases
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Improve News content type
Revise the News content type so that the image can be in any folder, and not embedded in the news. Now sometimes we need to have duplicated images, and that is not smart.
Also, provide for an easy way to change the view template, preferably TTW.13 votes -
Include GloWorm out of the box
As the author, I'm completely +0 on the idea (despite UserVoice making me spend a vote to create this), but I've received some comments from more than a few people that they'd like to see an enhanced GloWorm ship with Plone. What's the consensus from the Plone public?
24 votesDeco will allow for full control of layouts, obviating the need for viewlets and viewlet managers.
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support alternative templates for portlets
In the case of things like the collection portlet, the output can vary from collection to collection. It would be helpful to allow integrators to specify a selection of different templates for editors to choose from.
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Support XML content import export out of the box
Out of the box it should be possible to import and export content in an XML format. This would considerably simplify processes like restoring part of a site, migration or reorganization of content.
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Ship with fully-tuned high-perf buildout recipes
Out of the box, Plone should come with known-good production configurations that include ZEO, pound, squid, nginx, varnish, Apache that don't require arcane knowledge to tweak
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Dont generate image scales for sizes larger than the original
It would be nice if we didn't generate image scales that are larger than the max dimensions of the uploaded image. This seems to produce some strange anti-optimizations. For example, if I upload a highly compressed 150px image, then insert the image_mini (200px) rescale version, what gets inserted will be a 150px image that is actually a bit larger in filesize than the image I originally uploaded. This can be avoided by inserting "original" image instead, but I see a lot of users accepting the default (image_mini) out of ignorance. Plone should be smarter about not offering options that don't…
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Remove username from personaltools to improve cacheability
This will make it easier to cache by role, out of the box. Alternative: include it with a javascript call.
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23 votes
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Support content object references
I know this isn't exactly new, but it's really crying for a solution:
We often have a few pages (or other objects) that contextually belongs in more than one place (folder).
To avoid creating redundant objects means using collections or custom views, etc. all of which are too complicated for content managers that aren't plone savvy.
How can we accomplish this?
Often the content63 votesI’m doing some research into something similar, in the package collective.alias. I’m not sure how well it’ll work yet, but it’s coming along. This is based on SimpleAlias (in principle, there’s no code sharing), which already works today (but has a few limitations).
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