Re: List of Plone content types

[Carsten Senger <senger rehfisch de>]

Hi,

Lucas Rocha schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> We need to define a list of content types which should be implemented
> for the first release of the website. IIUC, content types, in Plone
> lingo, are basically the types of content objects (events, news,
> pages, images, etc) which should have a custom display in our website.
>
> My guess (which still depends on what exactly the content will look
> like) is that we'll be surely working with those content types in the
> 2.28 release:
>  - Page (title, intro, content)
Every Page has a description field. This is a plain text field and used 
in listings, search results etc. I changed the description to be 
required, but removed it from the document view template. Authors can 
add an introductional paragraph to their texts where it is suitable for 
the text.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454564

>  - News (date, title, intro, content)
>  - Front page (banner, news entries, intro, content, promo banners,
> promo texts, etc)
>
> Anything else?
>
> Some notes/questions to CMS guys:
>  - Not sure Front page is actually a content type in Plone terms

It is a hard coded template atm with config fields for the banner and 
the feeds.

>  - I guess pages can have subpages, right?

You can add folders and they have subpages.

>  - Should we consider pages with different layouts as different
> content types? For example, page with "banner + two text columns", or
> "banner + text", etc.

A content type can have different "views" that can be selected for the 
content object. But the content type has a fixed number of fields.

It's easier to talk about requirements so plone guys can say how this 
can be done in plone with as few extra work as possible.

I suggest to take a short tour through plone so the involved people know 
how the basic features of plone work and we can agree where we need 
changes or additions. Otherwise we will not necessary talk about the 
same things. The amount of volunteer work on the cms is limited and I 
want to avoid unnecessary work.

Maybe we can do this in something like a shared desktop session so 
someone (I can do that) can explain what plone provides out of the box 
and how it works.

..Carsten