NeoBoard is part of a greater project Wankyu Choi is working on: NeoPortal. NeoBoard is unique in that it can be used either as a standalone Zope product or as a CMF product or even as a CMF Plone product. It retains the same Plonish look and feel with or without Plone.

Flexible Access Trace Keys ( new since 1.1 )

NeoBoard logs user accesses and content ratings by using a combo of access trace keys: date, IP address and username.

Smart Views ( new since 1.1 )

NeoBoard is smart enough to expand the current thread even in -View ( collapsed view ) mode. It also automatically calculates how many threads/replies should be shown when there's an orphan in the requested batch.

Built-in Catalog ( new since 1.1 )

NeoBoard comes with a built-in catalog, which ensures better performance.

Bare Zope and CMF/Plone Support ( new since 1.1a )

NeoBoard can be used either as a standalone Zope product or as a CMF or Plone product. NeoBoard retains the same look and feel no matter where you install it.

CMF-like Skins ( new since 1.1a )

NeoBoard's skins work exactly the same as CMF's. NeoBoard's skin system is modeled after CMF. If a skin works with CMF, it'll work with NeoBoard.

Plone is not a must for NeoBoard to work, but NeoBoard borrowed much from Plone's skins. With or without Plone, NeoBoard looks Plone-ish.

Collapsible Views ( new since 1.1b )

NeoBoard's article list can be collapsed or expanded.

When the list is in the collapsed view, articles with replies will show the number of replies after their titles.

When the list is in the expaneded view, articles with inline comments will show the number of comments after their titles.

Sortable Views ( new since 1.1a )

NeoBoard's articles can be sorted on a number of properties: creation date (default), category, the number of accesses, and the number of ratings.

Click on a corresponding table header and you'll get a sorted list on that property. Clicking the same header again will give you a reverse-sorted list on that property.

Minimal Article Workflow Support ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard Articles should be approved for public viewing. The auto-approval option can be turned on if approving articles ( or moderating them ) seems cumbersome.

NeoBoard managers can disapprove ( retract ) articles at any time.

Publishing ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard can be published or retracted. You can even set a date on which to publish an NeoBoard instance.

Simple Local Roles ( new since 1.0b )

The owner of a NeoBoard instance can delegate his/her manager role to other normal users via NeoBoard Managers form.

NeoBoard managers are NOT Zope managers. Their roles are restricted to maintaining the given NeoBoard instance.

Article Categories ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard Mangaers can define article categories under which to group NeoBoard Articles. These categories don't have anything to do with Zope Catalogs.

One can view only those articles that fall under a selected category.

Flexible Authentication Schemes ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard can either use ACL authentication or its own password-based per-article authentication scheme depending on the use_acl_auth option value.

When using ACL authentication, NeoBoard causes a login popup menu to appear by raising the Unauthorized error when a unauthenticated user tries to access restricted resources such as an article posting form.

When not using ACL authentication, NeoBoard presents username/password fields for posting/modifying/deleting articles or comments.

Anonymous Posting ( new since 1.1b )

NeoBoard managers can choose to allow anonymous users to post articles/comments even when ACL user authentication is in use.

Batch Actions ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard managers can copy, move, delete, approve, disapprove articles in a batch.

Cataloging ( new since 1.0b )

NeoBoard articles and their attachments are all catalog-aware. One can search NeoBoard articles on any combinations of the following fields: