Introduction

ATVocabularyManager: a vocabulary managing portal tool for Plone

Overview

• ATVocabularyManager offers central through the Plone management of dynamic vocabularies.

• This product is based on Archetypes and made to work with Archetypes as well as with other Products. It is intended use is within Archetypes Fields. Using it as a vocabulary provider for CMFMetadata worked out fine too. Integration with different other products will work as well.

• to use a managed vocabulary simply add the term vocabulary = NamedVocabulary("myvocabulary") to the fields of your Archetypes Schema, import NamedVocabulary from this Product and create your vocabulary with id myvocabulary in 'portal_vocabularies' tool (available through Plone Site-Setup). NamedVocabulary accepts two extra arguments:

  • empty_first_item, needs a boolean for getting an empty item on top of the list, defaults to False;
  • custom_empty_first_item, needs a list of tuple containing a custom first item, defaults to None.

• ATVocabularyManager supports:

  simple flat key

  value vocabularies

  tree like

  hierachical vocabularies (see Limitations)

  IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange Format (VDEX) aware vocabularies

  with XML Import and Export. VDEX is i18n-aware by its nature and does not need LinguaPlone!

  Vocabularies are pluggable types.

  ATVocabularyManager is prepared for extension with your special vocabulary type. ArchGenXML will help you here. Each vocabulary term needs to be an CMF aware content type. Reuse normal rich content as a vocabularies.

ArchGenXML 1.4+ code-generator does full integration of ATVocabularyManager: via tagged value defined named vocabularies are registered transparently, VDEX-XML files are imported at install-time, stub vocabularies are created at install time and custom types are registered by just providing appropriate stereotypes.

ATVM is Linguaplone compatible (only tested with SimpleVocabulary, and TreeVocabulary). Add a simple vocabulary with some items, install and configure Linguaplone, translate the vocabulary to the language(s) of your choice, translate every item to the language(s) of your choice. NamedVocabulary() will return the vocabulary as usual, the keys will stay the same disregarding language settings, the values will show in the currently selected language. VDEX vocabularies are not using LinguaPlone, but are i18n-aware (imo much better than everything else).

You can do hierachy-aware searches on treevocabularies (for more information on this see doc/search_treevocabulary.txt) attention: curently certain changes in the term hierachy require a catalog rebuild (see Limitations).

Installation

This addon can be installed has any other addons. please follow official documentation

To speed up ATVocabularyManager you might want to associate it with a Cache-Manager.

Dependencies

• Products.Archetypes
• imsvdex
• [Products.Linguaplone] optional

Limitations

TreeVocabulary catalog updates

If you are using the hierachy-aware catalog search support of tree-vocabularies you need to rebuild the uid_catalog and portal_catalog if you move a vocabularyterm that has other terms below it.

Creation/Edit of VDEX TTW is difficult.

Take an editor of your choice, create the vocab and upload it or help writing an UI.

Known Bugs

• Check the issue-tracker: https://github.com/collective/Products.ATVocabularyManager/issues Feel free to add bugs in here!

Support

Usally the authors are offering professional support. The classical well-working community support is found at the mailing-lists and IRC-channels announced at plone.org:http://plone.org