jmbo-foundry 1.1.1

Overview

jmbo-foundry ties together the various Jmbo products enabling you to rapidly build multilingual web and mobi sites with the minimum amount of code and customization.

jmbo-foundry strives for a high level of through the web configuration. Much of the site’s behaviour is configurable through the admin interface.

Installation

Use jmbo-skeleton to set up a Jmbo environment. It is not recommended to install jmbo-foundry by itself.

Supported Jmbo products

jmbo-foundry pulls in these Jmbo products.

Sites

Your web presence typically consists of a normal web site and a mobile site. There may be many more types of sites in future and jmbo-foundry makes it easy to configure them independently. If your main site is served on www.mysite.com then go to Sites in the admin interface and set Domain name and Display name accordingly. Then add a site entry for your mobile site and set the values to m.mysite.com.

If you have only one site then you may blindly publish everything that is publishable to this site. However, if you have more than one site and in different languages then understanding sites become significant.

At its most basic level publishing to a site means making content appear on a site. This is easy to understand when the content is eg. an article, but content is not always limited to things which are easily translatable into real world objects.

Preferences

Preferences can be published to certain sites.

Listings

A listing is essentially a stored search that can be rendered in a certain style. A listing can be published to certain sites.

Content type, Category and Content are criteria which define the items present in the listing. These criteria are mutually exclusive.

Count specifies the maximum number of items in the listing.

Style is the default way in which the listing is rendered. The styles are vertical, vertical, vertical thumbnail, horizontal, promo and widget. See Listing styles for detail.

Items per page is the number of items to display on a single listing page.

Links

A link is a re-usable pointer to something, be it inside the site or external.

URL, Category, View name and Target fields are mutually exclusive.

View name warrants further explanation. It is the name of a named Django view, eg. contact-us. The vocabulary is all the named views in the Django site excluding those with a variable parameter.

Navbars

A navigation bar typically contains a small amount of items since horizontal space is limited. Each item in the navigation bar is represented as a Link. A navbar can be published to certain sites.

A navbar with slug main is considered special. It is assumed to be the site navbar by default.

Menus

A menu is essentially the same as a navigation bar, except it has a vertical layout by default.

A menu with slug main is considered special. It is assumed to be the site menu by default.

Pages

Page builder documentation tbc.

How to use dumpdata

To move your jmbo-foundry site between databases you will have to use dumpdata –natural. This will emit natural keys for all relations to external models. Internal relations use primary keys. To safely migrate jmbo-foundry models, use the following:

migrate.py dumpdata –natural –all foundry preferences –exclude=foundry.Member –exclude=foundry.Notification –exclude=foundry.BlogPost –exclude=foundry.ChatRoom –exclude=foundry.FoundryComment

The excluded models subclass external models. You will need to manually dump them along with their parent models.

Layers

A layer is a rendering target. jmbo-foundry defines four type of layers: basic, smart and web. Templates, styling, javascript, images and even code can all be different per payer. This enables optimal support for different devices from the same codebase.

Layers are arranged in this hierarchy.

basic - smart basic - web

If eg. the template my_page.html is not found in the web layer then it falls back to my_page.html from the basic layer. The basic layer must be complete.

1.1.1

1. Filter Foundry comments by content type in admin.

2. Remove redundant chatroom detail template. It caused a comment count bug.

3. Allow social sharing of content even if it is a private site.

4. Remove jquery from basic layer since it causes out of memory errors on some devices. We will in future look for an API compatible replacement.

5. Add jmbo-twitter as dependency.

6. Provide three customizable listings to enable developers to easily add more listings.

1.1

1. Rename potentially confusing photosizes used in listing item templates. Old photosizes are retained for backward compatibility. If your app redefines a photosize for listing_* then you must update those photosize names.

2. Handle favicon.ico requests so they do not 404.

3. Include jmbo-gallery admin urls.

1.0.1

1. Make fields in registration form reorderable.

2. Set initial values for location and age in registration form, when possible.

3. Remove hack to django-autopaginate to allow last page as default view. We have our own replacement autopaginate tag now.

1.0

1. Patch django.contrib.sites.models.Site.__unicode__ so it returns name and not domain. The UI gets confusing since we have up to three sites comprising one logical mobi site.

2. Listings now have automatic RSS feeds.

3. Comment form now fires up correct virtual keyboard for a smart phone.

4. Logged in members can now flag offensive comments. After three flags a moderator is notified.

5. Some IP addresses can now be allowed to bypass the age gateway / private site.

6. Listing gets an optional RSS feed.

7. Simplified paginator. No more breadcrumbs.

8. Show less metadata in mobi listings.

9. Ditch addthis sharing widget. It is too slow.

10. Simplified commenting and chatroom. Removed some navigation links.

11. Some user agents can now be allowed to bypass the age gateway. This allows bots to crawl the site.

12. Up required jmbo to 1.0.

0.7.2

1. Hotfix. Apps with empty URL patterns cause infinite recursion when adding a page.

0.7.1

1. Hotfix. Remove references deprecated jmbo-gallery views.

0.7

1. A listing now has an optional view modifier. This makes it possible to filter or order the listing.

2. compute_settings function is now redundant thanks to the introduction of foundry.finders.FileSystemLayerAwareFinder. Add this finder to STATICFILES_FINDERS as the first item.

3. Gallery specific code ported to jmbo-gallery. base_inner.html has a new link to gallery CSS and JS. If you have a customized template then update accordingly.

4. Up required jmbo-gallery to 0.1.

0.6.4

1. Replace deprecated message_set call.

0.6.3

1. Move FileSystemStorage listdir monkey patch to __init__.py so it is applied for collectstatic.

0.6.2

1. Django 1.4 incompatibilities with login and password reset fixed.

2. More tests.

0.6.1

1. Change admin static file urls to use ‘static’ filter instead of deprecated ‘ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX’.

0.6

1. Up required jmbo to 0.5. Django 1.4 now implicitly required. You may get errors on template loaders not being found. See the Django 1.4 changelog in that case.

0.5.1

1. Clean up ajax batching of listings for basic and smart layers.

2. View modifiers and modelbase_list.html style templates are not ajaxified anymore.

3. Country model has new field country code.

4. Up required jmbo to 0.4.

0.5

1. “More” style batching for smart layer.

2. Listings now have optional pinned items which are anchored to the top of a listing.

3. Default photosizes for basic, mid, smart and web. Some old settings have changed so existing images may be scaled differently.

0.4

1. layered decorator so you can write different views for different layers without cluttering urls.py.

0.3.10

1. Translation for search form.

2. Member profile editing regression fixed.

0.3.9

1. Searching now working.

0.3.8

1. Bug fix for regression introduced into 0.3.7.

0.3.7

1. Listings being used within a tile can now choose whether to display a title.

2. Columns now have an optional title.

0.3.6

1. Demo is now part og jmbo-skeleton.

2. Minimum jmbo version required is now >= 0.3.4.

3. Management command load_photosizes loads photosizes in a sane way.

0.3.5

1. Adjust South migration dependencies.

2. Simplify and extend demo.

0.3.4

1. Batching on tastypie listing API.

2. Remove django-ckeditor dependency. Handled by jmbo-post.

3. Patch CsrfTokenNode.render so the input is not wrapped in a hidden container.

0.3.3

1. Version pins for jmbo and jmbo-post.

0.3.2

1. Use slug for lookups in tastypie API.

0.3.1

1. Chatrooms and normal comments can now have distinct appearances. jmbo>=0.3.1 required.

0.3

1. Reduce ajax polling when user is inactive

2. django-tastypie support added. jmbo and jmbo-post have minimum version requirements.

0.2.2

1. Pin django-ckeditor to >= 3.6.2

2. Remember me field now on login and join forms. Checked by default.

3. Any call to get_XXX_url is now layer aware.

4. Comment posting now ajaxified depending on browser capabilities.

0.2.1

1. Remove dependency links.

0.2

1. Add a base_inner.html template so it is easier to override base.html.

2. Patch listdir so collectstatic does not fail on custom layers for third party foundry-based products.

0.1

1. Use Jaro Winkler for matching naughty words.

0.0.2 (2011-09-27)

1. Detail view.

2. Element preferences.

0.0.1 (2011-09-21)

1. Initial release.