Guide to Plone
Important bits to working in Plone
- Never add content through the Zope Management Interface.
- Document properties Allow discussion Keywords (enables grouping and sorting of items) Effective date (first day a piece of content should be available) Expiration date(last day a piece of content should be available) Copyright Contributors
- Once a document has been published, it must be retracted to be edited.
- To change main site logo: From ZMI, click portal_skins, then plone_images, click on logo.jpg. Click “customize”
- Site indexing (via portal_catalog???) How do you get to plone_utils?
- Portal_skins/plone_styles to edit style sheets (use ploneCustom.css) /plone_portlets /plone_content/document_byline (newsitem_view puts this at the end)
- The navigation portlet is extremely customizable; you can alter it by clicking portal_properties and then clicking navtree_properties inside the ZMI
- To make News the default… go to your portal root and click Properties. Then you need to go to the bottom of the page, complete the add new property form with the following information, and then click the Add button:
For the Name field: default_page For the Value field: news For the Type field: lines
- The actions for the portal tabs are stored in the portal_actions tool, so to alter these, click portal_actions in the ZMI