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Recipes for making Plone work better for you

Unsupported schema error during buildout — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 11, 2012 02:26 PM

 

Sneaky Insufficient Privileges error — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 18, 2012 11:43 AM

inexplicable me

PIL and Plone buildouts — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 12, 2012 12:51 PM

How to add PIL (Python Imaging Library) to your Python

How to give users an easy way to toggle a value on an object — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 04, 2012 12:18 PM

e.g. to allow hiring supervisors to mark that they are interested (or not) in a given applicant

How to add Google Plus button to document actions — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 22, 2012 10:24 AM

Add the social media "google plus" button inside a document action.

How to add Pinterest button to document actions — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 19, 2012 01:16 PM

Add the social media "pinterest" button inside a document action.

PloneFormGen override expressions — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Mar 14, 2012 11:21 PM

for setting default values using member name or email address

How to fix dissappearing TinyMCE — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 14, 2012 03:37 PM

The HTML editor TinyMCE disappears leaving you with HTML only no WYSIWYG at all

How to add a custom tabular view to D2C — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 07, 2012 11:25 AM

Add a table as an option for display for a D2C object AND how to customize that table to show data thats stored in the D2C adapter

How to quickly upload multiple images — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 05, 2012 11:23 AM

Upload images quickly into plone using TinyMCE

How to add social networking icons to your document actions — by bayerk07 — last modified Feb 22, 2012 09:20 PM

How to add icons (or text) to share content on Facebook and Twitter.

Expose Categorization Object on Edit Page — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Feb 17, 2012 11:24 AM

Shows you how to reveal the categorization tab items in edit page mode

"Mailing forgotten passwords has been disabled" error — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Feb 16, 2012 01:14 PM

Why do you get this error (in at least Plone 4.1)

How to get the email addresses of members of a group, using collective.easytemplate — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Feb 13, 2012 11:20 AM

 

How to make Plone generate ".section" CSS classes — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Feb 09, 2012 05:03 PM

By default Plone generates this for only the 1st level of folders in a site. This is how you can make it do this for all levels.

Workaround for "AttributeError: _cloned_object_path" error — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jan 27, 2012 01:44 PM

a patch, for the "AttributeError: _cloned_object_path" error

How to export/import portions of a Plone site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jan 24, 2012 04:10 PM

How to move content quickly from one site to another

How to use Generic Setup Upgrade Steps — by David Hietpas — last modified Jan 20, 2012 07:47 AM

This how-to will show how to create a generic setup upgrade step. This how-to will give a simple walkthrough example of the procedure involved. This how-to will also explain some issues you should be aware of with upgradeSteps.

How to have automatic file download — by David Hietpas — last modified Jan 11, 2012 10:26 AM

How to let files automatically download for non-editors and visitors.

Guest Signups with uwosh.timeslot — by David Hietpas — last modified Dec 23, 2011 03:40 PM

How to allow guests to sign up with uwosh.timeslot. This is a walk-through on how to do just that.