Intro -- Plone 3 Intranets -- Table of Contents -- Plone 3 Intranets -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Plone -- What does Plone give me over other CMS solutions? -- First surprise: not PHP, Python -- Second surprise: not RDBMS, the mighty ZODB -- The Plone community -- Public websites, intranets, extranets, and the thin line between them -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started -- Plone versions -- Installing Plone -- zc.buildout requirements -- Quick start for the impatient -- Plone unified installers -- Windows -- Linux -- Mac OS X -- Buildout -- Distribute, setuptools, and eggs -- PasteScript and ZopeSkel -- Running buildout -- Buildout directory structure -- Setting up buildout.cfg -- The buildout section -- The extends directive -- The find-links directive -- The zope2 section -- The instance section -- The zopepy section -- Launching Zope -- Summary -- 3. Managing our Content -- Plone visual layout structure -- Header -- Columns -- Content -- Footer -- Anonymous versus logged in -- Content management tabs -- Content structure -- Adding content -- Standard Plone content types -- Content metadata -- Content settings -- Managing content -- Displaying views -- Managing portlets -- Summary -- 4. Configuring our Site -- Plone control panel -- Mail control panel -- Site -- Users and groups -- Security -- Types -- Add-on products -- Content rules -- Maintenance -- Errors -- HTML filtering -- Language -- Markup -- Wiki formatting -- Navigation -- Search -- Theme -- Zope Management Interface -- Control panel -- Database management -- Product management -- Placeless translation service -- Plone site-ZMI point of view.

Installing new add-on products -- As an egg via buildout -- As a Zope 2 add-on product -- Summary -- 5. Managing Users, Groups, Roles, and Permissions -- One vision -- Security entities -- Roles -- Global and local roles -- Permissions -- Global Zope user accounts -- User self-registration -- Managing users and groups -- The user registration form -- Managing users -- Managing groups -- Recovering user password -- More control: managing ZMI -- Administering users via ZMI -- Administering groups via ZMI -- Administering roles via ZMI -- The sharing tab -- Local role inheritance -- Summary -- 6. Managing Workflows -- Workflow entities -- States -- Transitions -- Guards -- Permissions -- Assigning local roles to groups -- Scripts -- ZMI workflow management -- Out-of-the-box workflows -- Simple publication workflow -- Community workflow -- Community workflow for folders -- One state workflow -- Intranet workflow -- Intranet workflows for folders -- Workflow diving -- States -- Transitions -- Variables -- Worklists -- Scripts -- No workflow and multiple workflow use cases -- Some useful workflow tools -- DCWorkflowGraph -- collective.wtf -- collective.workflowed -- Placeful workflow -- Best practices -- Make an initial blueprint first -- Avoid developing on production servers -- Start from an existing workflow copy -- Use the tools shown for debugging -- Test our workflow -- Summary -- 7. Securing our Intranet -- Global or local roles? -- Using global roles -- Using local roles -- Designing a sustainable role policy -- A policy example -- Restricting the use of the Manager role -- Creating system administrator users for the Zope instance -- Creating additional manager users of the Plone site -- Granting other role permissions restricted to Managers -- Local role delegation -- Allowing non-managers to administer local roles.

Choosing a workflow for our intranet -- Restricting access to authenticated users -- Building an example intranet workflow -- Private state -- Draft state -- Intranet state -- Transitions -- Managing private content -- Creating private sections -- Workgroup areas -- Third-party add-on products -- Adding roles to the Plone UI -- Using a custom product -- Using collective.sharingroles -- Summary -- 8. Using Content Type Effectively -- Designing our intranet information architecture -- Using collections -- Creating a collection -- Table of contents -- Next/previous navigation -- Presentation mode -- Enabling the presentation mode -- Formatting a slide -- Third-party content types-best practices -- A few golden rules -- Ordering the "Add new" content type menu -- Content type superseding -- Mantaining usability -- Upgrades -- Summary -- 9. Intranet Add-on Products -- Calendaring and extended events -- Plone4ArtistsCalendar -- Installation -- Features -- Take advantage of local security and collections -- vs.event -- Installation -- Features -- Form generators -- PloneFormGen -- Installation -- Dependencies -- How it works -- Field types -- Action adapters -- Other content types in a form folder -- Extensibility and third-party products for PFG -- Captcha integration -- Blogs -- Quills -- Installation -- Features -- Quills portlets -- Configuring the blog -- Scrawl -- Installation -- Features -- Discussion board -- PloneBoard -- Installation -- How it works -- Adjusting permissions on Ploneboard for intranet use -- Polls and surveys -- PlonePopoll -- Installation -- How it works -- Adjusting default permissions for polls -- Taking advantage of local roles with polls -- Plone Survey -- Installation -- How it works -- Adjusting default permissions for surveys -- Document files management -- ARFilePreview and AROfficeTransforms -- Installation -- Features.

Additional software required -- OpenXML -- Installation -- Dependencies -- Summary -- 10. Basic Product Development -- Building our own product -- Naming our product -- Creating the egg -- Anatomy of a Plone product egg -- Egg documentation files -- Egg setup files -- Main product content -- ZCML configuration files -- Making the product installable -- The power of GenericSetup -- Snapshots -- Importing and exporting a particular product profile -- Comparing snapshots and product profiles -- Importing GenericSetup profiles from a product -- Cloning content types via GenericSetup -- Using a product to configure security -- Defining role map assignment to permissions -- Creating new workflows or modifying existing ones -- Dexterity -- Summary -- 11. Content Rules, Syndication, and Advanced Features -- Content rules -- Adding a new rule -- Assigning rules to folderish objects -- Making any content type rule aware -- Syndication -- Enabling folder syndication -- Accessing a secure RSS feed -- Versioning -- Changing versioning policy -- WebDAV -- Managing WebDAV access permissions -- External editing -- Installing the External Editor -- Windows -- Linux -- Mac OS X -- Enabling external editing -- Modifying helper software -- Summary -- 12. Theming our Intranet -- Diving into Plone's page rendering -- Acquisition from parents -- Plone skins tool -- Skins and layers -- Acquisition in skin layers -- Zope page templates -- TAL -- METAL -- Viewlets -- Managing viewlets -- Composing a Plone page -- Rendering the main_template.pt page template -- Resource registries -- CSS resource registry -- JavaScript resource registry -- Theming using third-party add-on products -- GloWorm-add-on product for viewlet customization -- Installation -- Using GloWorm -- CSSManager-add-on product for CSS and basic properties customization -- Installation -- Using CSSManager.

CSS customization with base_properties sheet -- Changing the logged-in tabs' attributes -- Custom theme add-on products -- Building our own theme add-on product -- Installing the product -- Customizing Plone skin layer resources -- Enabling CSS debug mode -- Customizing the site logo -- Customizing the logo image and adding a new one -- Customizing the plone.logo viewlet -- Customizing Plone CSS -- Resetting Plone CSS -- More about customizing viewlets -- Using Generic Setup to customize a theme -- Theming-best practices -- Summary -- 13. Deploying our Intranet -- Deployment buildouts -- Buildout base configuration -- Adding a versions file -- Caching extended configuration -- Using the newest directive -- Adding ports and hosts names sections -- Adding process owners section -- Changing the ownership of buildout folder -- Common administration tasks -- Backing up and restoring database -- Database packing -- Rotating the log files -- Scheduling -- Virtual hosting -- VirtualHostMonster -- Virtual hosting a root domain -- Virtual hosting a domain subdirectory -- Small intranet deployments -- Monolithic Zope -- Performance -- Scalability -- Buildout for small deployments -- Small deployments layer diagram -- Medium intranet deployments -- ZEO (Zope Enterprise Objects) -- Adding a ZEO server to our buildout -- ZEO clients -- Scalability -- Performance -- Adding ZEO clients to our buildout -- Load balancer -- Supervisor to rule them all -- Using Supervisor -- Modifying the web server settings -- Medium deployments layer diagram -- Large intranet deployments -- Adding cache to our deployment -- Products.CacheSetup add-on product -- Cache server -- Building and configuring Varnish -- Default VCL configuration template file -- Modifying the web server settings -- Spanning services in separate servers -- Increasing the ZEO client instances.

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