EEA Possible Relations. This package provides a flexible way to manage relations in a Plone site. it provides a new reference browser widget and a central management interface for relations, their labels and requirements.
Project description
EEA Relations
EEA Relations package redefines relations in Plone. Right now in Plone any object can be in relation with any other object. EEA Relations lets you to define possible relations between objects. EEA Relations also comes with a nice, customizable faceted navigable popup for relations widget.
Contents
Introduction
Once installed from “Add-ons”, the package will add an utility called “Possible relations” under control panel.
Main features
Main goal of EEA Relations is to be an alternative to the default Plone related item widget.
EEA Relations features:
Define/restrict what kind of content types a certain content can relate to
Set restrictions on possible relations (e.g. relations can be made only with published content)
You can define easy to use faceted searches (using EEA Faceted navigation) on the relate items popup
Nice visual diagram showning all the relations and restrictions you defined (Control pane -> Possible relations)
Installation
The easiest way to get eea.relations support in Plone 4 using this package is to work with installations based on zc.buildout. Other types of installations should also be possible, but might turn out to be somewhat tricky.
To get started you will simply need to add the package to your “eggs” and “zcml” sections, run buildout, restart your Plone instance and install the “eea.relations” package using the quick-installer or via the “Add-on Products” section in “Site Setup”.
You can download a sample buildout at:
http://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.relations/buildouts/plone4/
Getting started
Once you install the package from control panel “Add-ons”, the package will add an utility called “Possible relations” under control panel from where you can start define the relations, the constraints between contents etc.
Dependencies
graphviz
yum install graphviz
apt-get install graphviz
API Doc
Source code
- Latest source code (Plone 4 compatible):
https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.relations/trunk
- Plone 2 and 3 compatible:
https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.relations/branches/plone25
Copyright and license
The Initial Owner of the Original Code is European Environment Agency (EEA). All Rights Reserved.
The EEA Relations (the Original Code) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
More details under docs/License.txt
Funding
EEA - European Enviroment Agency (EU)
Changelog
4.4 - (2012-03-05)
Bug fix: Renamed css file to css.dtml. Use portal_url to anchor images [tiberich #4956]
Change: make the @eea.relations.macros generic [tiberich #4982]
4.3 - (2012-02-15)
Bug fix: don’t check for thumbs on content types, we always have them [tiberich #4671]
4.2 - (2012-01-03)
Bug fix: Fixed permission for related items [voineali #4841]
Bug fix: Fixed icons for items in portal_relations tool [voineali #4834]
4.1 - (2011-11-18)
Rerelease broken egg
4.0 - (2011-11-18)
Feature: added a way to easily override Plone default ATContentTypes widget for relatedItems field. Just add ‘eea.relations.default’ within your zc.buildout include ZCMLs [voineali #4232]
Cleanup: fixed all pylint, pyflakes violations [voineali #4232]
Feature: added upgrade steps [voineali #4392]
Feature: Plone 4.x compatible release [voineali #4232]
0.10 - (2011-03-29)
Bug fix: fixed failure if object has no workflow [voineali #4217]
0.9 - (2011-02-18)
Changed: replaced thickbox with fancybox [ichimdav #3773]
0.8 - (2010-12-13)
Bug fix: fixed jslint warnings [voineali #3821]
0.7 - (2010-11-22)
Bug fix: fixed missing end tag found by hudson zptlint [voineali #3821]
0.6 - (2010-11-12)
Bug fix: fix failing tests [voineali #3821]
Change: added cache metadata to images [ghicaale #3667]
0.5 - (2010-11-05)
Bug fix: when exporting GS profile, constrain to string the type titles [tiberich]
0.4 (2010-09-06)
Feature: color links in reference widget according to their state. [tiberich #3561]
Feature: added default location field to content type entries [tiberich #3544]
0.3 (2010-08-16)
Change: set permissions for reference popups to View instead of ModifyContent [tiberich #3525]
0.2 (2010-06-16)
Change: changed AutoRelations API to return a list of tabs (labeled brains) [#3298 voineali]
0.1 (2010-06-07)
Initial release [voineali]
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