How To's

How to Add a Splash Page to your Site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 25, 2008 02:20 PM

without having to install a product or restart the Plone/Zope server

How to embed or add a Flash movie to a page — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 25, 2008 04:05 PM

 

How to copy and paste Word or other documents into Plone — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 16, 2008 12:08 PM

using the default Kupu editor

How to disable certain kss features? — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 15, 2008 11:17 PM

 

How to Install 3.1 products in 3.0 — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 28, 2008 09:13 PM

from Joel Kleier (MIO), addendum by Nathan Van Gheem

How to enable spell checking — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2008 08:59 AM

using the Firefox browser

Firefox spell checker preference — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2008 09:00 AM

 

How to validate a page for Section 508 compliance — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 05, 2008 11:56 AM

complying with accessibility standards using the Firefox browser or a free online service

Do's and don'ts for managing IT projects with wikis — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2008 10:08 AM

from InfoWorld

How to's — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 20, 2009 11:39 AM

Recipes for making Plone work better for you

How to get PloneFormGen to send a copy of the form to the submitter — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2008 01:15 PM

When a person uses your form, you'd like them to get a copy of the email

How to fix the Submit button on your form — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2008 01:40 PM

if the form's Submit button doesn't do anything when clicked

How to split out comma-separated values in survey results — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 04, 2008 11:56 AM

splitting values such as "choice1, choice2, choice3" into individual columns in survey results

Caveats on upgrading Plone sites — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 06, 2008 01:28 PM

a cautionary tale of Plone version upgrade scripts

Beware when setting a workflow policy on a folder — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 05, 2008 12:08 PM

for Plone 3.1 (possibly 3.0)

How to create an intranet section of your site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 10, 2010 11:04 AM

Keeping a section of the site private except to specific groups of users

How to improve your site's Google page rank — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 06, 2008 11:19 PM

easy things you can do to boost your site's visibility in Google searches

Give subnavigation main navigation power — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Sep 09, 2008 09:54 PM

shows you how to make it so that you have normal navigation on most pages but on occasion make a folder show only its contents in the nav tree.

How to generate a simple logo — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 09, 2008 09:57 PM

online logo generator

How to manage news items — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 10, 2008 03:38 PM

avoiding clutter on your site

How to display only certain event types in a portlet — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 13, 2008 09:00 PM

if you have different event types on your site

ArgoUML / ArchGenXML things to watch out for — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 16, 2008 10:26 AM

tips on using the above tools

VirtualHost RewriteRule tip — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 16, 2008 10:53 AM

for Apache web server acting as a front-end to Plone/Zope

How to grant permissions on a folder to a group of users — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Feb 12, 2011 10:29 AM

if you want to allow only certain people to have specific permissions within a folder

How to enable RSS syndication for a folder — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 17, 2008 04:32 PM

if you want to create an RSS feed for a folder, as opposed to a collection

enableGlobally — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Sep 18, 2008 10:07 AM

 

How to fix the PloneFormGen install problem on plone 3.0.1 - 3.0.2 — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Sep 18, 2008 10:07 AM

PloneFormGen refuses to install

How to be able to embed images from collective.plonetruegallery product with kupu — by vanghn17 — last modified Sep 22, 2008 04:20 PM

By default kupu only allows regular plone folderish types to be traversed through to get their contents. This prevents you from being able to embed an image from a gallery with kupu by default

How to create a microsite — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 18, 2009 08:51 AM

if you want a Plone site to contain many semi-self-contained microsites

How to use PloneFlashUpload — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 18, 2008 02:54 PM

Flash version incompatibilities

How to allow editing of already-published items — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 19, 2008 09:06 AM

...without having to retract them first

How to use buildout to "pin" product versions — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 19, 2008 06:57 PM

Prevent unintended changes to your product mix

How to add development eggs — by fishej77 — last modified Aug 29, 2011 11:52 PM

Discusses how to create a portlet egg and actively develop eggs in Plone 3.1

How to fix broken PlacefulWorkflow in Plone 3.1.7 — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jan 29, 2009 10:39 AM

What to do if you get a "page not found" error when trying to create a policy

Create interior collapsible regions — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Feb 12, 2009 02:58 PM

This will show you how to add collapsible regions using existing definition lists and CSS within the main content regions of a plone page.

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 list the installed products in your Zope — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 29, 2010 03:51 PM

a script that iterates over the sites folders and Plone sites in your Zope, showing which products have been installed via quickinstaller

How to list the site administrators in your Zope — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 24, 2009 04:40 PM

a script that shows who is in the Administrators group in each Plone site contained in your Zope

How to make a simple blog — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Mar 06, 2009 11:47 AM

Use Plone out of the box to make a simple yet workable blog that even has its own RSS feed

Make Header in Navigation Portlet NOT link to the sitemap — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Mar 20, 2009 12:33 PM

By default plone has the text header in the navigation portlet link to the sitemap. People have been getting around this by putting a "space" for the title of the navigation portlet effectively hiding the header. But it dosen't need to be that way.

How to make CalendarX not display times — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Apr 08, 2009 03:09 PM

Shows you how to modify the Calendar X template so that it doesn't show the times of the event in the month and multi-month views.

Script to locate intranet folders — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 09, 2009 10:43 AM

 

How to get a list of the site owners — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 20, 2009 04:14 PM

.listSiteOwners

How to check for debug modes — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 16, 2009 04:08 PM

Script to check that CSS and Javascript debug modes are not set (".checkDebugMode")

How to change what Kupu and Plone filter out from a page — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Mar 29, 2011 09:02 AM

Changing what Kupu and Plone filter out by default

How to enable versioning (History tab) for a custom content type — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Apr 29, 2009 12:07 PM

 

How to increase session time — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 04, 2009 02:33 PM

...avoid session timeouts & automatic logging out

How to make tables sortable — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 05, 2009 03:05 PM

by column

How to install the trunk version of ATVocabularyManager — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 06, 2009 02:29 PM

...because the released one does not work with Plone 3.2

How to prevent Kupu from converting URLs... — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 16, 2009 01:39 PM

Kupu tries to convert absolute URLs into relative ones, but may get it wrong

How to fix an error when you click on an event — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified May 16, 2009 01:44 PM

Applies to Plone 3.2.1; fixed in Plone 3.2.2

How to back out or undo your svn commit — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 29, 2011 11:58 PM

or, "Oops, I committed it again!"

How to fetch a user ID by email address — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 05, 2009 04:36 PM

contributed by Andrew Schultz

How to check for broken links on your site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 11, 2009 11:29 AM

 

How to add a chat room to a Plone site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 16, 2009 01:32 PM

 

How to clone a Plone site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 18, 2009 01:16 PM

in case you get a Zope error when you copy and paste a Plone site

How to restart pound — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 18, 2009 02:19 PM

our load balancer

How to hide selectively a page's description — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 18, 2009 03:18 PM

in case you don't want people to see the description on specific pages

How to install deliverance on ubuntu 9.04 and 8.04 — by groneh03 — last modified Jun 22, 2009 03:44 PM

install deliverance ubuntu (9.04 or 8.04)

How to mock up a UI — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 22, 2009 04:07 PM

UI / GUI / user interface sketching

How to migrate a site from Plone 3.0 to 3.2.1 — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jul 29, 2009 01:07 PM

steps, to do, check list

How to add social networking icons to your document actions — by bayerk07 — last modified Jul 01, 2009 11:12 AM

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

How to change document actions from text to icons — by bayerk07 — last modified Jun 30, 2009 08:42 AM

How to change document action text, such as "Send this" and "Print this" to icons

images — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 04, 2009 12:02 PM

 

How to install deliverance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 — by groneh03 — last modified Jul 20, 2009 03:23 PM

install deliverance RHEL 5.2

How to random rotate image in content area — by Brian Ledwell — last modified Aug 13, 2009 03:05 PM

Rotating an image in a portlet or on a page

How to make a CalendarX object the default page for a folder — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jul 08, 2009 01:44 PM

You want a folder's default item to be a CalendarX object

How to control the size of log files — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 17, 2010 11:29 PM

how to set up logrotate

How to enable WebDAV — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 10, 2009 12:44 PM

 

How to clean up directly-assigned Manager role — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jul 29, 2009 01:14 PM

script that removes directly-assigned Manager role then adds that user to the Administrators group; iterates over all contained Plone sites

How to list all your LDAP servers — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 03, 2009 03:00 PM

script to put in root of Zope

CSS fix for content well portlets — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 05, 2009 01:35 PM

If you install Products.ContentWellPortlets

How to create a dynamic group — by Marshall Scorcio — last modified Jul 27, 2010 11:05 AM

 

How to grant Manager access to a site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 07, 2009 02:08 PM

How to grant full permissions to someone, and how not to do it

How to get paid using Plone — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 07, 2009 03:27 PM

What payment methods you could set up on your Plone site

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.

How to display folder items in some order — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 20, 2009 11:51 AM

e.g. chronological or reverse chronological order

How to allow batch file uploads on your site — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 24, 2009 03:39 PM

so that you don't have to keep doing "Add new" -> "File", etc.

How to import packaged HTML, CSS, PDFs, and images — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 26, 2009 12:21 PM

e.g. "What Can I Do With This Major?" for Career Services

kimGenPages.py — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 26, 2009 12:12 PM

Converts uploaded HTML files into Plone pages ("Document" type). Expects the HTML files to be in a subfolder called "src". If necessary, overwrites any existing Plone page in the current folder. Uses two replace() calls to insert a <div> tag with the necessary CSS class that the packaged CSS expects to find. Best to create this as a "Script (Python)" in portal_skins/custom so you can call it from anywhere on your site, eg. http://plonedev.uwosh.edu/career/what-can-i-do-with-this-major/html/kimGenPages

kimGenPageLinks.py — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 26, 2009 12:15 PM

Converts the "links" HTML files into normal Plone pages. See description of the kimGenPages.py file for more detail.

How to fix the error "AttributeError: Macro multimediawidget does not exist" — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 01, 2009 01:24 PM

when you're using the uwosh.flash product

Yet another How To on embedding video on your page — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 03, 2009 02:00 PM

or any arbitrary HTML, JavaScript, etc.

How to create an RSS feed portlet (video) — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 04, 2009 10:40 AM

In this video screen capture (no sound) starring Marshall Scorcio, we create an RSS feed portlet on http://www.uwosh.edu/cols of the events list at http://www.uwosh.edu/home/events. At the end of the video clip, the only missing step is to hold down the Shift key while clicking the browser's Reload button, so that the new RSS feed portlet will appear.

How to create an RSS feed portlet — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 04, 2009 12:01 PM

Step by step instructions (text and graphics); for video version of this how-to, see related items below.

How to allow import of modules for Script (Python) objects — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 04, 2009 03:47 PM

Useful if you want to use a Script (Python) instead of an External Method. Not safe to abuse this!

How to list all the sites in a Zope — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 09, 2009 12:06 PM

.listSites

Displaying PNGs in IE Despite AlphaImageLoader — by klotzj27 — last modified Jun 09, 2010 11:23 AM

Transparent PNGs rendered with AlphaImageLoader cause a problem for IE6 and earlier

Displaying Collection Body Text — by klotzj27 — last modified Sep 23, 2009 08:47 PM

Collections have multiple views... none of which display the body text of the items. This is particularly useful for news item collections.

Using Macros: A Use Case — by klotzj27 — last modified Sep 23, 2009 08:44 PM

A simple example of using macros.

How to undo something — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 23, 2009 08:52 PM

If you deleted something, you may be able to undo the damage

How to avoid permission confusion — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 24, 2009 12:42 PM

You thought you'd set up Sharing permissions on a folder for a small group, but people not in the group are still able to see the folder. Why is this happening?

How to fix your login problem — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 24, 2009 10:20 PM

if you are unable to log into a UW Oshkosh Plone site

How to record logins — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 28, 2009 10:58 PM

If you want to record who is logging into a Plone site

How to set up user authentication over multiple sites — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 28, 2009 10:57 PM

 

How to grant permissions (policy) — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 30, 2009 03:09 PM

our policy on granting site permissions

Using Classic Portlets With Examples — by klotzj27 — last modified Oct 05, 2009 12:39 PM

Portlets, as they are commonly used, can display navigation, events, current news items, among other built-in things. However, if you have the need for a portlet that displays something not covered by Plone 3.0's built-in portlets you can do a little customization using classic portlets. Classic portlets are the old way Plone used to handle portlet creation and although they offer flexibility can affect site performance negatively so should be used judiciously.

Using Conditional Comments and JQuery to Fix the IE6 Hover Issue — by klotzj27 — last modified Oct 02, 2009 03:37 PM

Since IE6 is the bane of web developers existence hover events only work on anchor tags and have erractic behavior in this delightful browser. To make on hover events work in IE6 we must add a conditional comment in our page template, as well as a javascript to make our on hover events work correctly.

How to make a Poi issue tracker require login — by kimadmin — last modified Oct 21, 2009 11:58 AM

Poi 1.2b1 has a workflow that lets anyone view or submit issues. Here's how to make it require login to view or submit issues.

How to use logrotate — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Aug 17, 2010 11:31 PM

The logrotate Unix utility lets you control how large log files get, how long to retain them, etc. If you don't use something like logrotate, your event.log, instance.log, Z2.log files can get stupendously large. Not only do large log files take up lots of space, they also are harder to view and search through. This describes how to use logrotate in a ZEO server / ZEO client deployment of Plone.