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Recipes for making Plone work better for you

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

our policy on granting site permissions

How to record logins — by Nguyen, T. Kim — 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 Nguyen, T. Kim — last modified Sep 28, 2009 10:57 PM

 

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

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

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

.listSites

How to allow import of modules for Script (Python) objects — by Nguyen, T. Kim — 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 create an RSS feed portlet — by Nguyen, T. Kim — 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 create an RSS feed portlet (video) — by Nguyen, T. Kim — 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.

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

or any arbitrary HTML, JavaScript, etc.

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

when you're using the uwosh.flash product

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

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

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

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

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

e.g. chronological or reverse chronological order

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

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

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

Rotating an image in a portlet or on a page

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

What payment methods you could set up on your Plone site