collective.cover 1.3b1

Demo

For impatient types, there is a demo installation of collective.cover on Heroku. It needs about 60 seconds to spin up and it will purge all changes after about an hour of non-usage.

Use cases

Suppose you are running The Planet, a news portal that has a bunch of editors focused on getting news on different topics, like Economy, Health or Sports.

If you are the main publisher of the site, you may want to delegate the construction of the front page of the Economy section to the people working on that content area, but you might not want them messing around the Sports section as well.

Also, suppose you have the final game of the World Cup and the match is going to be defined on penalties: you may want to prepare a couple of cover pages and publish the right one focused on the team that won in the end.

These are the kind of issues we want to solve with this package; we are still far from it, but that is the idea.

Who is using it?

These are some of the sites using collective.cover:

• CartaCapital (BR)

• Clean Clothes Campaign (NL)

• Conselho Federal de Administração (BR)

• La Jornada (MX)

• Palácio do Planalto (BR)

• Portal Brasil (BR)

• Rede Brasil Atual (BR)

• Venezolana de Televisión (VE)

Known issues

• Versioning creates zillions of empty blob files. If you’re using this feature in your site you have to take special attention to the number of free inodes in your file system, as you can run out of them; use the df -i command to check it.

• Package is not compatible with standard Plone tiles. This will be addressed in a future release, if we get an sponsor.

See the complete list of bugs on GitHub.

Installation

To enable this package in a buildout-based installation:

Edit your buildout.cfg and add add the following to it:

[buildout]
...
eggs =
    collective.cover

[versions]
...
collective.js.bootstrap = 2.3.1.1
plone.app.blocks = 2.2.1
plone.app.tiles = 1.0.2
plone.tiles = 1.5.2

If you are using Plone 4.2.x you need to add the following also:

[versions]
collective.js.jqueryui = 1.8.16.9
plone.app.jquery = 1.7.2
plone.app.jquerytools = 1.5.7
plone.app.z3cform = 0.6.3
plone.directives.form = 1.1

If you want to use a newer release of collective.js.bootstrap, you will need to update plone.app.jquery:

[versions]
plone.app.jquery = 1.8.3

After updating the configuration you need to run ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the ‘Site Setup’ page in a Plone site and click on the ‘Add-ons’ link.

Check the box next to collective.cover and click the ‘Activate’ button.

1.3b1 (2016-09-12)

• Update Traditional Chinese translation. [l34marr]

• Remove dependency on five.grok (closes #510). [l34marr, rodfersou]

• Use the X-Robots-Tag header to avoid indexing of image scales on default view; this will reduce the number of 404 (Not Found) responses generated by crawlers visiting the site in search of volatile content. [hvelarde]

• Enforce usage of plone.api >= 1.4.11 to avoid TypeError while running upgrade step to profile 14. [hvelarde]

1.2b1 (2016-07-04)

• A new calendar tile was added. The tile dislays a calendar that highlights the events taking place on the current month, the same way as the standard calendar portlet does. [rodfersou]

• Handle AssertionError on upgrade step to profile 13 to avoid failures when a cover object has duplicated tiles on it. Now, an error message will be logged and the object will be skipped; you must manually remove the duplicated tiles (closes #619). [hvelarde]

1.1b1 (2016-03-31)

• Enforce usage of plone.app.blocks 2.2.1 to avoid issues with tiles breaking the whole cover page. [hvelarde]

• Add option to select random items in collection tile (closes #608). [rodfersou]

• Carousel tile now uses a relative ratio to set its height (fixes #414). [terapyon, hvelarde]

• Remove hard dependency on plone.app.referenceablebehavior as Archetypes is no longer the default framework in Plone 5. Under Plone < 5.0 you should now explicitly add it to the eggs part of your buildout configuration to avoid issues while upgrading. [hvelarde]

• Link integrity was refactored to work on all tiles and under Plone 5; a hard dependency on Products.Archetypes was removed (fixes #578). [hvelarde, rodfersou]

• Do not use the calendar tool to discover Event-like objects as it was removed on Plone 5. Instead, try to guess if an object is an Event by using its catalog metadata. [hvelarde]

• Package is now also tested with plone.app.contenttypes installed; a few bugs related with API incompatibilities among Archetypes and Dexterity were fixed. [hvelarde]

• Remove Grok dependency for vocabularies. [l34marr]

• You can now use a collection to populate a carousel tile; search results without a lead image will be bypassed (fixes #574). [rodfersou]

• Shows message to user if an exception is thrown in a tile in AJAX calls. (closes #581). [idgserpro]

• Fix date format in collection tiles (closes #584). [tcurvelo]

• RichText tile no longer breaks with plone.app.widgets installed (closes #543). [frapell, rodfersou]

• Add missing dependency on collective.z3cform.datetimewidget. [hvelarde]

• Remove hard dependency on plone.app.stagingbehavior as that package is no longer needed in Plone 5. Under Plone < 5.0 you should now explicitly add it to the eggs part of your buildout configuration to avoid issues while upgrading. [hvelarde]

• Implement drag and drop among tiles (closes #487). [rodfersou]

• Clean up static files. [rodfersou]

Previous entries can be found in the HISTORY.rst file.