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
  • Restricting available types per folder
  • Creating OFS objects
  • Archetypes object construction
  • Factory type information
  • Content does not show in Add Menu or Unauthorized errors
  • Link to creation page
  • Populating folder on creation
• Listing objects
  • Introduction
  • Getting all content objects inside a folder
  • Getting folder objects filtered
  • 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
• Manipulating objects
  • Introduction
  • Reindexing modified objects
• Deleting
  • Introduction
  • Deleting content by id
  • Deleting all content in a folder
• Renaming objects (changing object ids)
  • Introduction
  • Renaming objects
• Content types
  • Introduction
  • Creating a new content type
  • Implictly allowed
• Workflows
  • Introduction
  • Creating workflows
  • Assigning the workflow to a particular content type
  • Getting the current 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
  • Disabling workflow for a content type
• Unique identifiers (UIDs)
  • Getting the object’s UID
  • Looking up object by UID
• Ownership of content
  • Introduction
  • Getting the owner of the item
• Timestamps used on content
  • Introduction
  • Last modification date
  • Creation date
• Dynamic views
  • Introduction
  • Creating a dynamic view
  • Checking that your view is available
  • Getting active layout
  • Changing default view programmatically
  • Default page
  • 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
• Import and export
  • Fast content import
• Archetypes
  • Fields and widgets
  • Field storages
  • Archetypes ReferenceFields
  • Customizing editing interface
  • DataGridField
• Dexterity