How to's

Recipes for making Plone work better for you

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

.listSiteOwners

How to synchronize the Titan Services drop down menu items — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 20, 2009 01:54 PM

...which are really portal_actions in the titanservices subfolder

Script to find large objects in your Plone sites — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 19, 2009 04:13 PM

Runs at the root of a Zope, identifies objects that have size in the MB or GB range

How to set file and image size limits in a ZEO cluster environment — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 18, 2009 10:50 AM

using plone.recipe.atcontenttypes

How to migrate your site to Plone — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 17, 2009 01:37 PM

Describes how you might go about migrating from some non-Plone site (e.g. Dreamweaver, Contribute, Front Page, hand-coded HTML) to Plone, as set up / hosted at UW Oshkosh.

How to use logrotate — by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Nov 12, 2009 11:06 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.

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

 

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.

Using Classic Portlets With Examples — by Joshua Klotz — 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 Joshua Klotz — 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 T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Sep 30, 2009 03:09 PM

our policy on granting site permissions

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 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 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 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

Displaying Collection Body Text — by Joshua Klotz — 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 Joshua Klotz — last modified Sep 23, 2009 08:44 PM

A simple example of using macros.

Displaying PNGs in IE Despite AlphaImageLoader — by Joshua Klotz — last modified Sep 09, 2009 03:49 PM

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

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

.listSites