Introduction

plone.schemaeditor provides a through-the-web interface for modifying Zope 3 schemata (interfaces).

Currently there is support for:

• adding and removing fields
• editing attributes of existing fields
• reordering fields
• renaming fields
• organizing fields into fieldsets

plone.schemaeditor only handles the actual schema editing. To be useful, it requires some integration code to take care of the following pieces:

• traversing to a schema that is used as the context of the editor
• persisting schema changes across Zope restarts

See plone.app.dexterity (along with plone.dexterity and plone.supermodel) for one approach to this integration.

The following field types (from zope.schema) are currently supported:

• TextLine
• Text
• Int
• Float
• Bool
• Password
• Datetime
• Choice (with simple list of values)
• List of Choice (with simple list of values)

Third-party packages can make additional field types available by registering new IFieldFactory utilities.

Dependencies

• Zope 2
• z3c.form
• plone.z3cform

Despite the namespace, Plone is not a dependency.

Note: This package is released under a BSD license. Contributors, please do not add dependencies on GPL code.

Credits

Author:

• David Glick (dglick@gmail.com)

Contributors:

• Nathan Van Gheem
• Martin Aspeli
• Alex Limi
• Ross Patterson
• Steve McMahon
• Thomas Desvenain
• et al