We will now look at how these schemas are called by the edit templates, and point out slots and hooks which Archetypes have left for customization. Let us return to our Image type: selecting this type in portal_types and looking at properties will show that atct_edit is the default editing form, as it is for […]

When you visit the plone site (http://plone.org) you see that the side navigation bar (viewable at any page besides homepage) contains only the root folders, the item and its immediate ancestors. A very nice behaviour, and one I spent a while fiddling with navigation properties trying to make happen. But actually the solution is much […]

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All the default types in Plone – file, image, folder – are part of the ATContentTypes product, and are examples of archetypes. Archetypes were integrated into Plone 2.1, and allow you to create content types easily by providing a range of readymade tools so you can generate edit forms without using any HTML. An example […]