Plone Products

The architecture of the Plone CMS/Portal system provides for the ready addition of "plugin" components to add functionality, including new content types and workflows. The Plone community refers to such "plugins" as "products."

This wiki page links to more information about Plone Products that are under consideration (or have already been evaluated) for use in the Pleiades portal. Unless otherwise indicated, the short descriptions here are cribbed from the documentation (such as it is) for each product.

Note: here's a template for the description/evaluation sub-pages linked below: ProdEvalTemplate

Plone Products Under Consideration

  • ArcheCSV? : batch-import of Comma-Separated-Value (CSV) data into content objects
  • ATExtensions : provides some extensions to Archetypes?, including a few custom fields, widgets and validators; required by CMFBibliographyAT
  • ATResearchProject : Four AT Content Types that can help you to present research project structures (e.g. at Universities)
  • ATVocabularyManager : a central pluggable vocabulary library for use with Archetypes based products, CMFMetadata and other Products. It supports flat, hierachical and VDEX based vocabularies
  • CacheSetup? 1.0: ships (turned off) with Plone 2.5: invokes "CacheFu?", a set of technologies meant to allow Plone sites to perform significantly faster, while still showing content and navigation that is up-to-date with the changes being made by content editors
  • CMFBibliographyAT : enables the handling of references to various types of (scientific) publications; note: there are a host of extensions for this product, which are not presently listed here
  • CMFDiffTool? : a portal utility that offers methods for generating various formats of diffs between content based on a specified set of fields (or an entire Archetypes Schema); it also provides a content type for storing changesets between objects
  • CMFEditions? : provides versioning, modification history and purging capabilities for content
  • CMFSquidTool? 1.3.0: ships (turned off) with Plone 2.5: a CMF Tool to purge a proxy's cache. It works with both Squid and Enfold Enterprise Proxy
  • ExtendedHistory? : changes the history that is shown on a document to include all the edits and changes
  • FAQulator : A very simple FAQ product
  • FlickrAlbum? : supports creation of photo albums in a Plone site with images stored at flickr.com
  • LinguaPlone : a tool to manage and maintain multilingual content
  • Marshall? 0.6.5-final: ships (turned off) with Plone 2.5: a framework for pluggable marshalling policies
  • PloneBoard : supports addition of web discussion boards
  • PloneComments? : designed to improve moderation of comments on content
  • PloneErrorReporting? 0.11: ships (turned off) with Plone 2.5: replaces default_error_message and prefs_error_log_showEntry with pages that facilitate the submission of useful bug reports to Plone
  • PloneLanguageTool 1.3: ships (turned off) with Plone 2.5: allows you to set the available languages in your Plone site, select various fallback mechanisms, and control the use of flags for language selection and translations
  • PloneOntology? : an ontology-based replacement for the existing keyword mechanism
  • PloneRSS : an RSS newsfeed integration product
  • PloneStickies? : facilitates creation of content annotations on content objects
  • PloneSubscription : allows users to manage their subscriptions and to administrators manage group-wide subscriptions
  • SimpleAlias? : enables creation of aliases to content

Plone Products Selected for Use

  • PrimaGIS : a collaborative web mapping application for Plone

Plone Products That Ship (turned on) With Plone 2.5

  • Archetypes? 1.4.0-final: a developers' framework for rapidly developing and deploying rich, full featured content types within the context of Zope/CMF and Plone
  • CMFPlacefulWorkflow? 1.0.0-final: permits creation of workflow policies that define content-type-to-workflow mappings that can be applied in any sub-folder of the site
  • MimetypesRegistry? 1.4.0-final: keeps track of the various MIME types available to Plone and provides support for working with them and adding new ones
  • PasswordResetTool? 0.4: hooks into the standard mechanisms for password mailing provided by the CMF in the Registration Tool and certain skins and replaces this with a facility for resetting passwords with email authentication
  • PortalTransforms? 1.4.0-final: used to transform data between two MIME types
  • PloneTranslations: not designated as a separate product in the quickinstaller, but these are the i18n files that provide translations for the Plone interface; they will need to be updated periodically
  • kupu? 1.3.7-plone: a 'document-centric' open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer, easily integrated into CMSs like Plone

Plone Products Considered and Rejected