ftw.tabbedview

A generic tabbed view for plone content types.


Keywords
ftw, tabbedview, table, listing
License
GPL-2.0
Install
pip install ftw.tabbedview==4.2.1

Documentation

Introduction

This package provides a generic view with multiple tabs for plone. It provides a generic base tab for listing contents in a table, based on ftw.table.

Features

  • Generic tabbed view
  • Tabs are registered through FTI actions
  • Base view for listing tabs
  • Listing tabs are filterable
  • Perform configurable actions on listed items
  • ftw.table's Ext JS support works also in listing tables
  • Fallback tables
  • Drag'n drop multiple file upload functionality (using quickupload plugin)

Installation

Default table implementation

  • Add ftw.tabbedview to your buildout (or as dependency to a custom egg):
[buildout]
parts =
    instance
    ...

[instance]
...
eggs +=
    Plone
    ftw.tabbedview
  • Install default profile in portal_setup.

Ext JS table implementation

  • Add ftw.tabbedview to your buildout (or as dependency to a custom egg), using the extjs extras require:
[buildout]
parts =
    instance
    ...

[instance]
...
eggs +=
    Plone
    ftw.tabbedview[extjs]
  • Install extjs profile in portal_setup.

Quickupload plugin implementation

The quickupload plugin integrates the collective.quickupload packages in to the tabbedview.

  • Add ftw.tabbedview to your buildout (or as dependency to a custom egg), using the quickupload extras require:
[buildout]
parts =
    instance
    ...

[instance]
...
eggs +=
    Plone
    ftw.tabbedview[quickupload]
  • Install quickupload profile in portal_setup.
  • For activating the quickupload plugin on a context, make sure the context provides the ITabbedviewUploadable Interface.

Usage

We use the package example.conference``_ as example for showing how to use ``ftw.tabbedview.

  • Use the @@tabbed_view on any container.

  • Define actions on the content type FTI (Example: profiles/default/types/example.conference.program.xml):

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <object name="example.conference.program" meta_type="Dexterity FTI"
            i18n:domain="example.conference" xmlns:i18n="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n">
    
      <property name="default_view">tabbed_view</property>
      <property name="view_methods">
          <element value="tabbed_view"/>
      </property>
    
      <action title="Sessions" action_id="sessions" category="tabbedview-tabs"
              condition_expr="" url_expr="string:${object_url}?view=sessions"
              visible="True">
          <permission value="View"/>
      </action>
    
    </object>
    
  • Create the "tab" view (Example: browser/tabs.py):

    >>> from ftw.tabbedview.browser.listing import CatalogListingView
    >>> from ftw.table import helper
    >>> from example.conference import _
    >>>
    >>> class SessionsTab(CatalogListingView):
    ...     """A tabbed-view tab listing sessions on a program.
    ...     """
    ...
    ...     types = ['example.conference.session']
    ...     sort_on = 'sortable_title'
    ...
    ...     show_selects = False
    ...
    ...     columns = (
    ...         {'column': 'Title',
    ...          'sort_index': 'sortable_title',
    ...          'column_title': _(u'Title'),
    ...          'helper': helper.linked},
    ...
    ...         {'column': 'Track',
    ...          'column_title': _(u"Track")},
    ...         )
    
  • Register the view using ZCML, be sure to name it tabbedview_view-${action id} (Example: browser/configure.zcml):

    <configure
        xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope"
        xmlns:browser="http://namespaces.zope.org/browser">
    
        <browser:page
            for="example.conference.program.IProgram"
            name="tabbedview_view-sessions"
            class=".tabs.SessionsTab"
            permission="zope2.View"
            />
    
    </configure>
    

Alternative listing sources

It is possible to use alternative sources for listing tabs. The tables are generated using ftw.table and the tab is a ftw.table.interfaces.ITableSourceConfig, which allows ftw.table to find an appropriate source. Subclassing ITableSourceConfig and registering a custom ITableSource multi adapter makes it possible to use alternative data sources such as sqlalchemy or structured python data (local roles for instance). Take a look at the ftw.table documentation for more details.

Screenshots

Screenshot of a example tabbed view using the default table implementation:

https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tabbedview/raw/master/docs/screenshot1.png

Screenshot of the same listing using the extjs table implementation:

https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tabbedview/raw/master/docs/screenshot2.png

Caching

ftw.tabbedview provides a plone.app.caching etag adapter named tabbedview. This etag can be used in the caching configuration in order to make the cache flush when changing the default tab.

In order to enable this, you need to add it to your caching configuration. Depending on how you want to set up caching in your project, you may want to add the etag to your rulesets. You can do that in a registry.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registry>

    <record name="plone.app.caching.weakCaching.plone.content.itemView.etags">
        <value purge="False">
            <element>tabbedview</element>
        </value>
    </record>

    <record name="plone.app.caching.weakCaching.plone.content.folderView.etags">
        <value purge="False">
            <element>tabbedview</element>
        </value>
    </record>

</registry>

Links

Licensing

This package is released under GPL Version 2. Be aware, that when using the package with the extjs extras, it will install Ext JS, which has different license policies. See http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/license/ for details.

Copyright

This package is copyright by 4teamwork.

ftw.tabbedview is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.