AT Content Types
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Installation
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Please read INSTALL.txt for a list of requirements before installing this
product. ATContentTypes requires new versions of Python, Zope, Plone and
Archetypes. Make sure you've updated all products.
Reporting bugs / feature requests
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Please use the Plone bug tracker at http://dev.plone.org/plone and use the
Content Types component!
Comparing CMF types with ATContentTypes
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This is a very rough and short list of differences between the old CMF types
and the new ATContentTypes types.
- Archetypes: All types are written with Archetypes and have all features
default Archetypes based types have like:
- autogenerated edit forms based on the schema
- referenceable
- Easily enhanceable by subclassing or adding fields to the schema
- Transformations like restructured text, python source code highlighting,
pdf to html, office to html and many more.
- plugable validation of fields
- Clean and documented API.
- Translateable using LinguaPlone.
- Dynamic Views: All types are using the new dynamic view FTI that allows you
to choose the view template per instance. You can configure the templates in
the portal_types tool. This features is used to turn an ordinary folder into
a photo album by simple switching to a different view.
- Permissions per type and feature: Every type has its own add permission and
all features like template mixin have their own modify permission, too.
- Numerous small adjustments and enhancements to all types for example:
- Images can be rotated through the web and have exif informations
- News Items have an image plus caption
- Events have a body text
- Documents have a history tab to show the last changes as an unified diff
view using the ZODB history.
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