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AT Content Types (2.0)
by
Ihor Berehulyak
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last modified
2010-01-26
Released on 2010-01-25 by Sylvain Thenault, Thomas Bechter, Alec Mitchell, Vidar Andersen, Godefroid Chapelle, Leonardo Rochael Almeida, Jens Klein, Kai Bielenberg, Bill Schindler, Christian Heimes, Dominik Bartenstein, Danny Bloemendaal for Plone 3.1 under GPL - GNU General Public License available for All platforms.
Software development stage: beta
- AT Content Types download link: http://plone.org/products/atcontenttypes/releases
- Homepage of AT Content Types: http://plone.org/products/atcontenttypes/
- AT Content Types repository: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/ATContentTypes
- Description source: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.ATContentTypes/trunk/README.txt
ATContentTypes is a full and feature rich reimplementation of CMF's default content types with Archetypes. It contains all content types from CMFDefault, CMFTopic and CMFCalendar and a migration system to migrate to the new types.
Comparing CMF types with ATContentTypes
This is a very rough and short list of differences between the old CMF types and the new ATContentTypes types.
- Archetypes: All types are written with Archetypes and have all features default Archetypes based types have like:
- autogenerated edit forms based on the schema
- referenceable
- Easily enhanceable by subclassing or adding fields to the schema
- Transformations like restructured text, python source code highlighting, pdf to html, office to html and many more.
- plugable validation of fields
- Clean and documented API.
- Translateable using LinguaPlone.
- Dynamic Views: All types are using the new dynamic view FTI that allows you to choose the view template per instance. You can configure the templates in the portal_types tool. This features is used to turn an ordinary folder into a photo album by simple switching to a different view.
- Permissions per type and feature: Every type has its own add permission and all features like template mixin have their own modify permission, too.
- Numerous small adjustments and enhancements to all types for example:
- Images can be rotated through the web and have exif informations
- News Items have an image plus caption
- Events have a body text
- Documents have a history tab to show the last changes as an unified diff view using the ZODB history.
