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collective.easytemplate (0.7.9)
- collective.easytemplate download link: http://plone.org/products/easy-template/releases
- Homepage of collective.easytemplate: http://plone.org/products/easy-template/
- collective.easytemplate repository: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.easytemplate/
- Description source: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.easytemplate/0.1
Easy Template (collective.easytemplate) products brings easy dynamic texts to Plone. You don't need to create full blown product just for few dynamic pages anymore - the most simplest things can be typed straight from the visual editor.
Templating is a way to add simple programming logic to text output. This products adds or enhances templating supports on various parts of Plone site.
Read more about this solution in this blog entry.
Motivation
Plone lacks out of the box support for custom, extensible, templating support for content editors.
Use cases
Possible use cases are e.g.
- Use unfiltered HTML on page body (<script> et. al)
- Adding dynamic listings and tables on pages, like news listing
- Adding dynamic email bodies, titles and receivers in content rules actions
- Adding generated content to content rule action emails
- Show different text to logged in and anonymous users
- Creating a simple text portlet dynamically
Example
The following example demostrates how text in Templated Document edit mode gets translated to generated HTML snippet in the view mode.
You write in Kupu:
Hello user!
Please select one course from below:
{{ list_folder("courses") }}
will result to the output:
Hello user!
Please select one course from below:
