BatchIt (0.1)

BatchIt provides additional views for folders and topics (smart folders) in Plone similar to the folder_tabular_view and atct_topic_view but supporting AJAX-based in-place (re)sorting and batch navigation.

It's an implementation proposal for PLIP 101.

Supported Plone versions

Currently, only the Plone 2.5.x series is supported. It might work on 2.1.x as well but this has not been tested up to now. Depending on PLIP acceptance, it might become obsolete with Plone 3.

Dependencies

As BatchIt needs AJAX functionality in Plone it requires PloneAzax.

Installation

Like with most other traditional 3rd-party extensions you enable it via Plone's quickinstaller tool after unpacking the archive into your Zope's 'Products' folder and then restarting Zope. To enable the new view on a folder or topic select the 'batch_folder_view' or 'batch_topic_view' from the 'display' drop-down of any of your site's folders or topics respectively. To make it the default view for all folders or topics you have to change the respective type information in the types tool via ZMI.

Fallback

If JS/AJAX is not available, it falls back to the current default behavior.

Issues

• To further speed up things all batch related information is stored in a session which should be invalidated on page unload but as KSS doesn't support subscribing to the unload event at the time of this writing the code for this is commented out.

• As this product reimplements table sorting the table_sort.js becomes obsolete and will be unregistered during product install.
  

• no tests