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Memblets (1.0-beta1)
- Memblets download link: http://plone.org/products/memblets/releases
- Homepage of Memblets: http://plone.org/products/memblets/
- Memblets repository: http://trac.plone.org/collective/browser/Memble
- Description source: http://plone.org/products/memblets/
Overview
Memblets let you use content objects in your portal as PAS properties.
It's about dealing with PAS properties and do not cover any other aspect, like - for example - Membrane does.
Memblets allows having multiple content objects as properties for one User.
The content objects implementing user properties don't have to
be aware of Memblets, no mixin is needed, not interface is needed.
Link together user and its properties (content objects) just through
registration in the Memblets Tool. Registered content objects are
attributed to their owner. We call this kind of properties
Active Properties.
Memblets offers also so called Delegation Properties. These are using
propertyfinders to fetch a property from anywhere you like. We designed
it to fetch single fields from Archetypes based content. But its nor
reduced to this use-case since Delegation Properties are designed
extensible and pluggable.
Relation to Membrane
Memblets is an alternative, in most parts orthogonal and thinner/reduced approach to Membrane and it borrows lots of ideas from it. In fact Helge Tesdal and I thinking about making a common base catalog used by Membrane and Memblets and may out-source all property related code into Memblets.
Installation
Back up your site before installing! Read about PAS and PlonePAS!
In Plone, click "Add/Remove Products" in the Site Setup. Then select PlonePAS from the list of available products and click "Install". Then install Memblets the same way.
Memblets needs Archetypes 1.3.>=6 or 1.4.x
