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AttachmentField (1.4.4)

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by Ihor Berehulyak — last modified 2008-05-21
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Released on 2008-05-20 by Ingeniweb for Plone 2.1, Plone 2.5, Plone 3.0 under GPL - GNU General Public License available for All platforms.
Software development stage: stable
AttachmentField is an Archetypes field managing attachments (with preview and indexing)

An Archetype field that manages file attachments, to be used in place of a FileField.

AttachmentField allows you to index and preview various kinds of documents, such as MSOffice (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), PDF and more in your Archetypes based content types.

This product replaces the former ZAttachmentAttribute from Ingeniweb (see ingeniweb.sourceforge.net).

Be sure to read the warnings below before using it.

Warning

  • Due to lots of misuses of AttachmentField, be warned that it does not

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add any new content type by itself. AttachmentField is a product for Plone/Archetypes content types developers.

  • It is strongly discouraged to uninstall AttachmentField while configured to

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use FileSystemStorage. If so, all contents that use AttachmentField would be lost (even if you reinstall it later). If you want to upgrade, just reinstall it without uninstalling it.

If you need to uninstall AttachmentField, first configure it to use AttributeStorage (in ZODB) (default choice). In this case, you can then uninstall AttachmentField without loosing your content (You will need to reinstall a version of AttachmentField to access them again)

Dependencies

Python packages

  • python-libxml2
  • python-libxslt

You need these packages for OpenOffice documents support.

These Python extensions are available as packages in most Linux distros. Windows users may find a suitable libxml2 + libxslt for Python installer from http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

Zope/Plone

  • Plone 2.1.x
  • Archetypes 1.3.7+
  • FileSystemStorage (only if you want to use FSS)

Applications/utilities (Unix)

  • xpdf >= 3.0
  • wvware >= 1.0
  • xlhtml
  • ppthtml
  • unrtf >= 0.19

Applications/utilities (win32)

All above listed binary plugins are provided "batteries included" for Windows,

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