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Plone Boot Camp Syllabus

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The tentative outline of the first ever Plone Boot Camp, the largest Plone training meeting in the world to date.

Contents

DAY ONE: Using and Customizing Plone
DAY TWO: ZPT and Content Types
DAY THREE: Scripting/API
DAY FOUR: Developing Advanced Content Types
DAY FIVE: Development Topics

DAY ONE: Using and Customizing Plone

Using Plone • Customizing Plone I • Customizing Plone II • Workflow I • back to contents

Using Plone

  • Adding content
  • Workflow
  • Searching
  • Adding & managing users
  • Ownership & sharing
  • Undo
  • Topics
  • Error Log

Customizing Plone I

  • Plone vs. Zope vs. Python
  • Installing Products
  • Changing Actions
  • Changing site_properties
  • Changing navigation tree
  • Changing default_page throughout
  • Changing Portlets

Customizing Plone II

  • portal_factory
  • portal_memberdata
  • portal_metadata
  • portal_syndication
  • portal_skins & customization
  • Plone CSS and ploneCustom

Workflow I

  • Understanding states & transitions
  • States
  • Transitions
  • Basic security
  • Mapping types to workflows

DAY TWO: ZPT and Content Types

ZPT I • Content Types • ZPT II • ZPT III • back to contents

ZPT I

  • tal:replace
  • tal:content
  • tal:define
  • TALES

Content Types

  • Cloning content types
  • Adding FTI-based content types
  • Customizing content types

ZPT II

  • tal:attributes
  • tal:condition
  • tal:repeat
  • tal:omit-tag
  • tal:on-error
  • Advanced TALES

ZPT III

  • METAL

DAY THREE: Scripting/API

Scripting I • Working with the Zope/Plone API • Creating filesystem-based Site Product • back to contents

Scripting I

  • PythonScripts
  • Basic API
  • DocFinderTab

Working with the Zope/Plone API

Creating filesystem-based Site Product

  • Boilerplate framework
  • Skins on disk
  • Product refresh
  • Custom setup scripts

DAY FOUR: Developing Advanced Content Types

Archetypes I • Archetypes II • ZCatalog • Form Controller and marshalling • back to contents

Archetypes I

  • Schemas
  • Custom methods
  • Vocabularies
  • Updating schemas

Archetypes II

  • Custom skins (& completely custom skins)
  • Overview of custom field and widget creation
  • Permissions
  • Indexing in catalogs
  • Templates

ZCatalog

  • Overview of catalog
  • API for searching
  • Adding indexes
  • Adding metadata
  • getObject

Form Controller and marshalling

  • Designing forms
  • Validation
  • Actions
  • Basic argument marshalling

DAY FIVE: Development Topics

Security • Workflow II • Relational Databases I • Setup and Debugging • back to contents

Security

  • Permissions
  • Roles
  • Groups

Workflow II

  • Re-visiting permissions
  • Workflow scripts and state_change
  • Writing workflow to disk with DCWorkflowDump
  • PortalNotifications

Relational Databases I

  • Database adaptors
  • Setup with PostgreSQL
  • ZSQL Methods
  • Basic DTML
  • Archetypes SQLStorage overview
  • APE overview

Setup and Debugging

  • ZEO
  • zopectl debug
  • debugging with WingIDE
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