Review of the Recent Plone Products Releases

PloneFormGen

PloneFormGen 1.2.7 release (Apr 22, 2009) - new bugfixed and updated release of the main addon used to build forms in Plone, providing fields, widgets and validators from Archetypes.

Poi

Most popular Plone issue tracker Poi has new 1.2 version, released on Apr 22, 2009. This is Plone 3-only release; Plone 2.5 is no longer supported. This product was eggified and Poi is now available as Products.Poi.

Poi 2.1 has changes in UI: the responses refactoring made it possible to have a reaction form at the bottom of each issue instead of needing to create a PoiResponse. So now the issue and all responses are displayed when making your own response.

Poi 2.1 has also gone through big refactoring: some logic from the content types and python scripts (in the skin) was moved into browser views and other adapters. PoiResponses (Archetypes objects) were replaced with Zope 3 style light weight objects.

Faculty Staff Directory

New improved release of personnel directory Faculty Staff Directory is now available which is 2.1.1.2, released on Apr 8, 2009. This is mainly a bugfix release with some new features implemented, such as:

• A dedicated Committees Folder view (similar to the specialies folder view) added.
  
• A Specialty has an extra schemata "Overview" with an image and richtext field. Both fields are used for the speciality_overview view.
  
• Microformats for person_view's address block added.
  
• Spanish and French translation added.
  

PloneSEO

Updated and improved version of major SEO-related tool for Plone - Plone SEO 2.0.5, released on Apr 7, 2009. New release includes some improvements and modernization of SEOptimizer product from Quintagroup. Adding of a new feature is worth mentioning here which is canonical URL, useful for search engine marketing purposes. Plone Comments 4.0.0 release, issued on Apr 6, 2009, is now compatible with Plone 3. Current release highlights:

Real Estate Broker

New release of Plone real estate objects management tool - Real Estate Broker 2.1 was issued on Mar 26, 2009. New features that come with this release include:

• French translations added
• Allow access to the AlbumView.first_image; an Unauthorized error is triggered when using this in for example a collection portlet.
• Floorplan filter bug fixed: the photo management page also filtered them, making them impossible to edit. 
• Floorplans from all the photo lists was filtered out.

Plone Get Paid

PloneGetPaid 0.7.5 version releases on Mar 13, 2009. This version has Brazilian Portuguese translation updated and the code was updated to make sure the site root is got when checking out, otherwise the store settings can't be got. More highlights include: