Portlets documentation for developers

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Israel Saeta Pérez () Portlets documentation for developers
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Hello list,

I'm looking for some people to contribute to a manual/tutorial about the Plone 3 portlets infrastructure. We already have doctests, a blog post and some docs at plone.org, but that's not enough. See http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7666 .

We need a doc about:
  • What exactly is a portlet?
  • What's the difference between a portlet and a viewlet, and when should I use each one?
  • How does Plone look up and render portlets (process)?
  • How do I create a new portlet? (hands-on tutorial)
  • How do I assign portlets to my site, globally, locally, to groups, to users...?
  • How do I customize the way portlets are shown (order, blacklisting, etc.)?
  • ...anything else...
As you may see this goes beyond just theming (and not "collides" with theming) and involves a lot of coding.

If you're interested in contributing, or have some ideas about what else to include (or what not), please reply to this post, mail me directly, comment the bug, or catch me at irc.freenode.org/#plone. Thanks!

Best,
-- israel


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Raphael Ritz () Re: Portlets documentation for developers
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Israel Saeta Pérez wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I'm looking for some people to contribute to a manual/tutorial about the
> Plone 3 portlets infrastructure. We already have doctests, a blog post
> and some docs at plone.org <http://plone.org>, but that's not enough.
> See http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7666 .
>
> We need a doc about:
>
>     * What exactly is a portlet?
>     * What's the difference between a portlet and a viewlet, and when
>       should I use each one?
>     * How does Plone look up and render portlets (process)?
>     * How do I create a new portlet? (hands-on tutorial)
>     * How do I assign portlets to my site, globally, locally, to groups,
>       to users...?
>     * How do I customize the way portlets are shown (order,
>       blacklisting, etc.)?
>     * ...anything else...

like what's the API for doing or changing portlet assignments
or "What if Plone's Generic Setup support for portlets is not enough?"
I'm afraid this happens way to often still :-(

Raphael


>
> As you may see this goes beyond just theming (and not "collides" with
> theming) and involves a lot of coding.
>
> If you're interested in contributing, or have some ideas about what else
> to include (or what not), please reply to this post, mail me directly,
> comment the bug, or catch me at irc.freenode.org/#plone
> <http://irc.freenode.org/#plone>. Thanks!
>
> Best,
> -- israel
>
>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Israel Saeta Pérez <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hello list,

I'm looking for some people to contribute to a manual/tutorial about the Plone 3 portlets infrastructure. We already have doctests, a blog post and some docs at plone.org, but that's not enough. See http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7666 .

How should we title this manual? "Portlets Engine Manual"? "Portlets Developer Reference"? "Portlets Infrastructure"? Any more brainstorm ideas?

-- israel


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