Content management

In Plone, User editable objects are content objects. Content objects have different flavours depending on their type.

Examples:

• Pages (ATDocument class)
• Images (ATImage class)
• News items
• Events
• etc.

There are two different subsystems to create content objects in Plone

• Archetypes (Plone 2.x and Plone 3.x)
• Dexterity (Plone 4.x and Plone 3.x)

• Creating objects
  • Creating content objects
  • Manual friendly id generation
  • Restricting creating on content types
  • Creating OFS objects
  • Oject construction life cycle
  • Factory type information
  • Content does not show in Add menu, or Unauthorized errors
  • Link to creation page
  • Populating folder on creation
  • Creating content from PloneFormGen
• Listing objects
  • Introduction
  • Ensuring content item is a folder
  • Getting all content objects inside a folder
  • Querying folder through catalog
  • Getting folder objects filtered
  • Enforcing manual sort order
  • Getting object ids
  • Getting non-contentish Zope objects
  • Checking for the existence of a particular object id
  • Listing the folder items using portal_catalog
  • Count of content items
  • Custom folder listing
  • Preventing folder listing
  • Complex folder listings and filtering
• Manipulating objects
  • Introduction
  • Reindexing modified objects
• Deleting
  • Introduction
  • Deleting content by id
  • Deleting all content in a folder
  • Bypassing link integrity check
  • Fail safe deleting
  • Purging site from old content
• Renaming content
  • Introduction
  • Renaming objects
• Content types
  • Introduction
  • Type information registry
  • Creating a new content type
  • Creating new content types through-the-web
  • Implictly allowed
  • Constraining the addable types per type instance
• Workflows
  • Introduction
  • Creating workflows
  • Assigning the workflow to a particular content type
  • Getting the current workflow state
  • Filtering content item list by workflow state
  • Changing workflow state
  • Gets the list of ids of all installed workflows
  • Getting default workflow for a portal type
  • Getting workflows for an object
  • Binding a workflow to a content type
  • Updating security settings after binding workflow
  • Disabling workflow for a content type
• Content identification (ids)
  • Introduction
  • Id
  • UID and UUID
  • intids
  • Archetypes
  • Getting the object's UID
  • Looking up object by UID
• Ownership of content
  • Introduction
  • Getting the owner of the item
  • Changing ownership of content
  • Contributors
• Timestamps
  • Introduction
  • Last modification date
  • Creation date
  • IsExpired()
• Dynamic views
  • Introduction
  • Default dynamic views
  • Creating a dynamic view
  • Checking that your view is available
  • Getting active layout
  • Changing default view programmatically
  • Default page
  • Setting a view using marker interfaces
  • Migration script from default view to another
  • Method aliases
  • Other resources
• Behaviors
  • Examples
• History and versioning
  • Introduction
  • Enabling versioning on your custom content type
  • Checking whether versioning is enabled
  • Inspecting versioning policies
  • How versioning (CMFEditions) works
  • Getting the complete revision history for an object
• Import and export
  • Introduction
  • quintagroup.transmogrifier
  • Fast content import
• Eventish content types
  • Introduction
  • portal_calendar
  • Recurrence calendar support in Plone 3
• Content rules
• Archetypes
  • Fields and widgets
  • Field storages
  • Archetypes ReferenceFields
  • Customizing editing interface
  • DataGridField
  • Validators
  • Files
  • Converting one Content Type into another
  • Templates
  • References
• Dexterity
  • Introduction
  • ZopeSkel templates
  • Buildout example
  • Content creation permissions
  • Exclusion from navigation
  • Custom add form/view
  • Custom edit form