Plone 3 for Education Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Creating Courses
• Prepare a place for courses
• Enable large folders
• Create the "Courses" folder
• Create the course skeleton
• Add a lesson
• The value of comments
• Lesson materials: one page or many?
• Add an assignment to the lesson
• Add course-wide events
• Use news items for course-specific announcements
• Add a course news portlet
• Collect due dates on the course's front page
• Add a syllabus
• Reusing the course framework
• Summary
• Where to go from here

• Chapter 2: Calendaring
• Show events on a calendar
• Meet Plone4Artists Calendar
• Install Plone4Artists Calendar
• Exclude trivia from the site-wide calendar
• Build a browsable hierarchy with collections
• Reorder subfolders the hard (but only) way
• Keep keywords clean with Plone Keyword Manager
• Tips for event contributors
• Represent recurring events
• Spotty support for showing recurrences
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Showcasing Personnel with Faculty/Staff Directory
• Install the product
• Test drive Faculty/Staff Directory
• Create a directory and choose global roles
• Add people
• Group people
• Classifications
• Committees
• Specialties
• Departments
• How grouping works: relationships, not containers
• Views
• Gallery view
• Tabular view
• A-Z view
• Textual view
• Which views for which types?
• Integrate users and groups
• Interoperating with enterprise authentication
• Delegating group administration
• Coming attractions
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Extending Faculty/Staff Directory
• A look at Archetypes
• Introducing schemaextender
• Start your extender
• Copy MobilePhoneExtender
• Test your work so far
• Adapters: the anatomy of an Extender
• Take this, make that
• Constructor boilerplate
• Add the fax and publications fields
• Show the new fields in views
• Hide or change existing fields
• Off-the-shelf extenders
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Blogs and Forums
• Plone's blogging potential
• Add-on products: free as in puppies
• News Items: blogging for the hurried or risk-averse
• Structure of a news-item blog
• News Item pros and cons
• Scrawl: a blog with a view
• Pros and cons of scrawl
• QuillsEnabled: blogging bells and whistles
• Pros and cons of QuillsEnabled
• QuillsEnabled + Scrawl: the perfect pair
• Forums with Ploneboard
• Comments and conversations
• Forums
• Message boards
• Harnessing Ploneboard's workflows
• Example 1: Moderated forums as drop boxes
• Example 2: Open forums for homework help
• Example 3: Forums for group work collaboration
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Embedding Audio and Video
• Meet the products
• Play standalone media
• Player options
• Embed media in pages
• Embed audio
• Embed video
• Embed media manually
• Enable the tags
• Insert the media
• Media in portlets
• Podcasting
• Advertising on the iTunes store
• iTunes U
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Creating Forms Fast
• Install PloneFormGen
• A tour of PloneFormGen
• Field types
• Form Actions
• Emailing submissions
• Saving submissions in the ZODB
• Doing custom processing
• Combining form actions
• PloneFormGen versus Archetypes content objects
• Tasty recipes
• Testing
• Filling out content objects
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Styling Your Site
• An overview of Plone theming
• Through-the-web versus filesystem
• A load of languages
• Don't let theming hold you up
• Prepare your development environment
• Begin your theme
• Install paster and ZopeSkel
• Generate an empty theme
• Clean up after paster
• Remove redundant package registration
• Remove MANIFEST.in
• Finalize installation
• Customize theme elements
• Customize Zope 2 elements
• Changing images
• Changing CSS
• Changing HTML
• The motivation behind TAL
• Adding templates
• Customize Zope 3 elements
• Example: Customizing the footer
• Step 1: Set up z3c.jbot
• Step 2: Override templates
• Further Reading
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Going Live
• Introducing the stack
• A word about platforms
• ZEO and Zope
• Considering buildout
• Install the generator, and generate a buildout configuration
• Make your first buildout tweaks
• Add ZEO support to buildout.cfg
• Add CacheFu to the buildout
• Start it up
• Increase speed with caching
• Crank up CacheFu
• Set up Squid
• Add Apache
• Generate correct links with VirtualHostMonster
• A sample Apache configuration
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Maintenance, Backups, and Upgrades
• Pack the ZODB
• Why to pack
• Pack manually
• Pack automatically
• Schedule easily with /etc/cron.weekly
• Schedule manually
• Back up Plone
• Make incremental backups of the ZODB with repozo
• Make repozo easier to use
• Schedule nightly backups
• Tweak your filesystem backups
• What if I am a major credit card company?
• Restore from backups
• The smoking hole scenario
• The deletion disaster
• Upgrade add-on products
• Upgrade Plone
• Summary

• Index