collective.limitfilesizepanel 2.0.0

Introduction

Plone Archetypes framework already gives you a max size validation for files and images, but the default configuration has some drawbacks:

• is not simple to customize (best way is to use plone.recipe.atcontenttypes)

• is the same for every Plone site of the environment

This product will let you customize this validation from Plone user interface.

How to use it

Just add the product to the buildout and install it in the site you want to use.

A new “Limit file size settings” option will be added in the control panel, where you can change the File and Image attachments.

No users will be able to upload files that exceed the limit. Also in TinyMCE text editor.

Advanced use

While default general purpose file and image settings can be OK for most common scenarios, you can also define custom settings for specific content types: just fill the “Settings for other content types and fields” section.

Configuration in that section wins over global configuration.

Validator bypass

If some users need to bypass the validation and upload some larger files, there is a new permission “collective.limitfilesizepanel: Bypass limit size” that allows to do this.

You only need to set this permission to some roles, and they’ll have no upload limits.

Dependencies

This products has been tested on:

• Plone 3.3

• Plone 4.2

• Plone 4.3

It’s based on plone.app.registry that it not part of Plone on 3.3 version. You need to be sure that a compatible version is used (in my experience: use version 1.0b1).

Credits

Developed with the support of:

• Regione Emilia Romagna

• Province of Vicenza

  

All of them supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

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