Products.ATCustomizableView (0.4.1)
- Products.ATCustomizableView download link: http://plone.org/products/atcustomizableview/releases
- Homepage of Products.ATCustomizableView: http://plone.org/products/atcustomizableview
- Products.ATCustomizableView repository: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.ATCustomizableView
- Description source: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.ATCustomizableView/trunk/README.txt
This product can change the behaviour of the Plone's "Display" menu, making it a little customizable. Those customization are not content type related, but are done for a single content.
For every specific content of the portal:
- You can block ability of your authors to change content's layouts.
- You can add custom, additional, views to a content.
- You can hide all standard available layout for a content, leaving only the new customized ones.
User cases
- Why freeze the content layout?
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Sometimes you need to apply a new view to a single content, like a folder. For example: you have a folder where you know is used only for News Item contents and you have a quite good view for this folder.
Registering this view for all Folder content types will give to your author the choice to use this view also in other section of the site, but you don't want it. A views pollution in the "Display" menu can be confusing.
- Why adding new entry in the menu
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Keep in mind that you are adding new views to a single content of your site.
For example: you have developed a new view for the Page and you want optionally leave to your authors to use or not this view in the home-page sub-sections of your site.
Like above, registering this view for the Page content types will leave to authors the choice to use this view for all page of the site but, for design choice, you want to use this view only for some specific pages.
- Why dropping base views
- No much to say, may be you don't want to inherit the content types views and don't want that your authors are able to use them.