collective.z3cform.widgets 1.0b6

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A widget package for Dexterity projects.

collective.z3cform.widgets provides the following widgets:

EnhancedTextLinesFieldWidget

This widget is an ajaxified version of the TextLinesFieldWidget that will allow creation, sort, update and deletion of text lines; degrades to <textarea> if JavaScript is not enabled.

This widget uses the jQuery TaskPlease plugin.

TokenInputFieldWidget

TokenInputFieldWidget allows your users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on Facebook. This widget will degrade to <textarea> if JavaScript is not enabled.

This widget uses the jQuery Tokeninput plugin.

If you install collective.z3cform.widgets in a Plone site it will replace every ICategorization subjects field’s widget of any Dexterity-based content type with this one.

MultiContentSearchFieldWidget

A widget to add a dynamic list of objects. This works as a widget for related items field so it must be used like this:

relatedItems = RelationList(
    title=_(u'label_related_items', default=u'Related Items'),
    default=[],
    value_type=RelationChoice(title=u"Related",
                  source=ObjPathSourceBinder(portal_type='Document')),
    required=False,
    )
form.widget(relatedItems=MultiContentSearchFieldWidget)

The parameters passed to the ObjPathSourceBinder class are used to filter the search of elements to relate to. If no parameters are passed, a tree structure is shown in the widget.

SimpleRichTextWidget

A lightweight and unbloated Rich Text Editor (RTE / WYSIWYG). These parameters can be configured:

'iframe_height': height in pixels,
'format_block': 'true' or 'false',
'bold': 'true' or 'false',
'italic': 'true' or 'false',
'unordered_list': 'true' or 'false',
'link': 'true' or 'false',
'image': 'true' or 'false',
'allow_disable': 'true' or 'false'

This widget uses the jQuery RTE plugin.

Don’t Panic

Future widgets

The following widgets will be available in this package in the near future:

• widget to select an option from a list; this widget will degrade to <select> if JavaScript is not enabled.

• widget to select multiple options from a list; this widget will degrade to <select> if JavaScript is not enabled.

This widgets will probably use the Chosen plugin.

Browsers supported

All modern browsers should be supported (Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Google Chrome 7.0+, Apple Safari 4.0+, Opera 10.0+ and Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0+).

Mostly Harmless

Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know by opening a support ticket.

See also

More widgets you might like:

• collective.z3cform.datagridfield: Version of DataGridField for use with Dexterity / z3c.form

• plone.app.widgets: A revamp of Plone widgets, it does this by overriding the widgets of some of the fields in Plone.

Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.z3cform.widgets to the list of eggs to install:

   [buildout]
   ...
   eggs =
       collective.z3cform.widgets

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.z3cform.widgets and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Note: You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.

Share and Enjoy

collective.z3cform.widgets would not have been possible without the contribution of the following people:

• Franco Pellegrini

• Gonzalo Almeida

• Silvestre Huens

• Héctor Velarde

• Cleber J. Santos

• João S. O. Bueno

You can find an updated list of package contributors on GitHub.

Development sponsored by Open Multimedia.

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