check-out/check-in staging for Plone
Project description
Summary
iterate is a Plone add-on that allows one to utilize a checkin / checkout procedure for content editing. It integrates in versioning, locking, and utilizes Zope technology like adapters and events to allow for easy customization.
Features
versioning utilizing cmf editions
locking using zope dav locks
pluggable behavior for policies via adapters
observable behavior via events
specialized handling for archetypes references
simple, clean integration with the plone user interface
Use Cases
iterate was designed to solve/enable the following use cases.
Collaborative Document Editing Scenario
Workgroup or person working on a document, the ability to checkout and lock a document allows for a editing cycle, without concern of overwrites, and with an audit trail of versions.
Publish/Modify/Review Cycles on a CMS
A common theme in content management, is publishing a web document, and then needing to revise it but not to change the published web content, till the modified document has undergone a review cycle.
Iterate Lifecycle via the User Interface
iterate integrates with the plone user interface mainly through the actions menu. it adds three conditional actions to the menu.. checkout, checkin, and cancel checkout.
checkout form
on this form a user is asked to which location they wish to checkout the current content, the vocabulary of checkouts is overridable via template customization and is currently the current folder, and the user’s home folder. if the content is not yet versioned, versioning is applied and a new version is created before the checkout is performed. an adapter is utilized to perform the checkout mechanics and an object lifecycle event is generated with the baseline ( origin ) and checkout as attributes. the adapter is responsible for effecting a copy of the content to the checkout location and taking a lock on the origin content. whether this form and action are active on a given piece of content depends on the iterate policy adapter found for this content.
checkouts have some system additional properties, versioning and workflow. they can be versioned independently of the baseline, with only changes from the latest version being merged into the baseline on checkin. they can undergoe separate workflows different from the baseline content. (this last feature requires some customization see docs/workflow.rst ).
checkout status form
visually checkouts are distinguished by an extra document icon (next to sendto, and rss links). clicking on this icon will lead to a checkout status page. which allows for looking at information regarding the checkout itself, such as when the checkout was performed and by whom.
checkin form
a user is asked for a checkin message. on checkin the working copy is merged into the baseline, and a new version of the baseline is created, and the baseline is unlocked.
cancel checkout
a confirmation dialog is displayed, if the checkout is canceled the working copy is destroyed, and the baseline is unlocked.
Credits
Kapil Thangavelu <hazmat@objectrealms.net>
Benjamin Saller <bcsaller@objectrealms.net>
icons from tortoisesvn project ( http://tigris.org )
License
GPL, see license.txt for details
Changelog
2.1.3 (2011-08-31)
Remove rogue div tag from diff.pt. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/11249 [danjacka]
2.1.2 - 2011-06-02
Include Products.CMFCore for Plone 4.1 compatibility. [thomasdesvenain, WouterVH]
2.1.1 - 2011-05-13
Fixed an issue where our subscriber always expected a coci_created attribute to be available at the policy. [erico_andrei]
Add MANIFEST.in. [WouterVH]
Viewing a working copy or an original of a checkout does not raise AttributeError anymore. Anyway, we log a warning because a Manager should do something about this. Fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8723 [glenfant]
2.1 - 2011-02-25
No changes.
2.1a2 - 2011-02-14
Fixed stale catalog entries appearing for references of merged content. [maurits]
Fixed minor test failure for _doAddUser. [maurits]
2.1a1 - 2011-01-18
Test Products.CMFPlone version to set default permission, keeping 4.0 compatibility - the next release can be 2.0.1 again. [elro]
Add autoinclude entry point. [elro]
Update permission defaults for Plone 4.1’s Site Administrator role. [elro]
2.0 - 2010-07-18
Fixed the info viewlet to show only the date, and not the time. The issue was introduced because ulocalized_time changed its parameters order. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/10759. [vincentfretin]
Update license to GPL version 2 only. [hannosch]
Add id=”content” for the content divs. Else theming with deliverance gets harder. [do3cc]
2.0b2 - 2010-06-03
Add naive upgrade step that reinstalls the product. [davisagli]
Set action icons via icon_expr on the actions, to avoid deprecation warnings in Plone 4. [davisagli]
2.0b1 - 2010-02-17
Declare all package dependencies. [hannosch]
Updated diff.pt to follow recent markup conventions. References #9981 [spliter]
1.2.5 - 2010-01-03
Fixed an undefined current_page_url variable in diff.pt. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/9819. [hannosch]
1.2.4 - 2008-12-21
Added profiles/default/metadata.xml (version 120: lets leave plenty room in case any profile changes are needed on the 1.1 branch). [maurits]
Avoid a test dependency on quick installer. [hannosch]
Use our own PloneMessageFactory. We don’t depend on CMFPlone anymore. [hannosch]
Specified package dependencies. [hannosch]
Made the tests independent of default content. [hannosch]
1.2.3 - 2008-11-14
Fix assumption in control view: not every context object is IReferenceable. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8737 [nouri]
1.2.2 - 2008-11-13
Fix action conditions for the nth time; this time it’s an over-ambitious “Cancel check-out” permission. This fixes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8735 [nouri]
1.2.1 - 2008-11-11
Refine permissions fix from 1.2.0 and make tests pass again:
Don’t require Modify Portal Content (MPC) permission on the original to check out, which was omitted in the fix for 1.2.0.
Don’t require MPC on the original for canceling of checkout, only require it on the working copy. [nouri]
Fix missing internationalization (#8608 thanks to Vincent Fretin) [encolpe]
1.2.0 - 2008-10-24
Allow users without modify content permissions (but with the iterate check out permission) to check out items, and only allow them to check in back again only when they have modify content permissions. [nouri]
1.1.5 - 2008-08-18
Fixed typo in subscribers/workflow.py. This fixes https://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8035. [dunlapm]
Added i18n of status messages. This fixes part of http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8022. [naro]
1.1.0 - 2008-04-20
Fixed dodgy test in test_iterate.py that was dependent on semantics of default workflow. [optilude]
Fixed i18n markup and updated some messages. This closes http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7958. [hannosch]
Updated i18n:domain in templates to the plone domain. There’s no need for a iterate domain. [hannosch]
Use README.txt and HISTORY.txt for the package’s long description. [wichert]
Remove unneeded initialize method from __init__ [wichert]
1.0 - 2007-08-17
First release
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