A generic control panel for themers and site integrators
pip install iservices.controlpanel==0.3
Introduction ============ ``iservices.controlpanel`` is a plone control panel that provides common settings for themers and integrators. The idea behind this control panel is that plone administrators (and not the integrator or programmer) will have the ability to: * Define social accounts for use all over the site, specially on themes. The programmer/integrator will have to integrate it's product or theme with this control panel (hopefully an easy_step) and get this settings to be applied on their logic. * Allows to change the global background and foreground colors that plone uses to draw it's interface on plonetheme.sunburs (Actually, only two colors). If the user requires more than that, it might be better to craft a complete theme product. * Change the plone logo. The site administrator can change the logo. This provides an easy plone theming deployment without the cost of creating a theme from scratch just to change the logo. * Change the footer and colophon text. The site administrator can change the text of the footer and colophon without needing the programmer to make changes to any theme. Usage ===== Install using buildout ----------------------- Add ``iservices.controlpanel`` to your ``eggs`` subsection:: eggs = ... iservices.controlpanel This package depends on a set of other packages, hopefully, all packages should be pulled from pypi automatically. However, you'll have to adjust the ``extends`` subsection according to the following pattern:: extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/<plone-version>/versions.cfg ... http://good-py.appspot.com/release/plone.app.z3cform/0.5.0-1?plone=<plone-version> http://good-py.appspot.com/release/plone.app.registry/1.0b2?plone=<plone-version> Replace ``<plone-version>`` with the Plone version you are working on, i.e., ``4.0.3`` How to use it on your packages and themes ----------------------------------------- Of course, If you use this package, you'd want access to the settings it manages, right? This package has a small API that encapsulates the the boilerplate code and makes it easy to you to use it. In order to access the settings of the control panel, you just use a very simple module import:: >>> from iservices.controlpanel.api import settings All settings are available using standar Python dot notation. Example:: >>> settings.background_color u'#205C90' If you access an unknown name, you will get an AttributeError: >>> registry.some_unknown_key Traceback (most recent call last): ... NameError: name 'registry' is not defined Also, using getattr(), even on an existing key name, does not make it: >>> getattr(settings,background_color) Traceback (most recent call last): ... NameError: name 'background_color' is not defined Sometimes, settings on the control panel will have empty values. It is suggested that, when this happens, the funcionality related to this particular setting should be disabled or modified in some way. >>> def do_something_with(some_setting): ... if some_setting: ... print "Doing stuff when this registry entry is set." ... else: ... print "Disable functionality when this registry is not set." ... >>> # the twitterlink setting is empty by default >>> print settings.twitterlink None >>> do_something_with(settings.twitterlink) Disable functionality when this registry is not set. >>> settings.twitterlink = 'http://twitter.com/tzicatl' >>> do_something_with(settings.twitterlink) Doing stuff when this registry entry is set. And that's all there is for the API. Credits ======= Author Noe Nieto <noe@iservices.com.mx> Websites http://iservices.com.mx/ http://noenieto.com/ Contact-email desarrollo@iservices.com.mx