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  <subtitle>TalkQuintagroup is a place to engage with us on topics important to you concerning the information technology industry. Read blogs from Quintagroup employees, customers, and analysts, visit our forums and let us know what you think. The topics are broad and relevant, including Zope and Plone hosting, Zope and Plone development, Plone skins, web design and content management solutions.</subtitle>

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      <title>New demo site for Plone 5</title>

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          <p><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone5demo/plone-demo-logo.png" alt="Plone 5 demo logo" style="float: left; " class="image-inline" />Since Plone 5 was pre-released, we decided to provide internet users with the ability to test its capabilities. Plone 5 comes with a lot of enhancements, greater flexibility and control.</p>
<p class="callout"><span>You can “touch and feel” new features by going to </span><a class="external-link" href="http://plone5demo.quintagroup.com/">http://plone5demo.quintagroup.com/</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>Demo website has account that gives users rights and permissions of site administrator. This user role provides access to all Plone features, such as adding content, publishing content, managing site users and groups, configuring site settings, etc.</p>
<p>Plone 5 Demo site contains several illustrative presentations of popular add-ons, including themes, custom forms (<a class="external-link" href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/easyform/">collective.easyform</a> package allows creation of forms through the web), and embed service (<a class="external-link" href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/collective.embedly">collective.embedly</a> package allows to embed video, images and other rich media files to Plone simply by providing their URL).</p>
<h2>Plone 5 features</h2>
<p>Plone 5 became faster. Now it uses <i>Chameleon</i> template rendering engine that reduces rendering time by 30%. New features and functionality you can experience with Plone 5 and on our demo website are listed below.</p>
<h3>Theming</h3>
<p>The new default theme is called <i>Barceloneta</i>. It is responsive out of the box and compiled with LESS. <i>Diazo theming</i> is enabled by default, so this theme can be edited through the web. Plone 5 uses HTML5 and allows choosing front-end framework, like <i>Bootstrap</i>.</p>
<p>The content management toolbar was redesigned and now users can manage content using pull-out panel. It can be expanded from one icon to full toolbar and repositioned. It is separated from content for easier styling, so users can always see a correct view of the pages.</p>
<h3>Content Management</h3>
<p><i>TinyMCE</i> became more accessible and mobile friendly. Drag&amp;drop uploads and content reordering are now also available.</p>
<p><i>Dexterity</i> content types are now used in Plone out of the box. Products.Archetypes, Products.ATContentTypes, archetypes.schemaextender are available as add-ons, mainly for older content. For instance, content migrations can be customized with a help of schema extender.</p>
<p><i>Multilingual</i> functionality is now shipped with Plone by default, so you can always translate your content and keep translations in order.</p>
<h3>Security</h3>
<p>Plone was always known as the open source CMS with the strongest security available. Plone 5 can boast automated Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and click-jacking protection. Security levels can be customized based on the needs of particular website.</p>
<h2>Experiment on our Plone 5 Demo Site</h2>
<p>Use our demo site for experimentation. Although this Plone version is a pre-release, experienced developers can implement Plone 5 based solutions. <a class="external-link" href="http://quintagroup.com/contact">Contact us</a> if you are interested in Plone development.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><a class="external-link" href="http://plone5demo.quintagroup.com/"> Try it out!</a></p>
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      <title>collective.contact.core</title>

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          <p>collective.contact.core is a  Plone add-on that helps to manage organizations and staff in Plone (main developers are <span>Vincent Fretin and Cedric Messiant</span>). This product provides directory that can contain contact information for different content types:  organizations/sub-organizations, persons,and positions. <span>Contact info option depends on for which content types you set the IContactDetails behavior so it can cover many different uses.</span></p>
<h3>Easy in use:</h3>
<ol>
<li style="text-align: left; "><span>Add directory to your website and insert all the additional information required. You’ll need to specify types of positions and organizations that will be used (e.g. <span>Faculty/Staff/Students for universities)</span>. Don’t worry about filling out the form, since it can be edited at any time later.</span>
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<li>Create organization(s) in the directory. Depending on the hierarchy, add other organizations (they may correspond to units, divisions, departments, etc.). An organization can contain position (e.g Dean, secretary, SEO) that will be connected with person (a physical person). Choose <strong>Organization</strong>/<strong>Position</strong> from the <strong>Add new</strong> drop-down menu or click on <strong>Create contact</strong> to divaricate your directory.</li>
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<p>A person content type can hold one or more positions or be member of one or more organizations. All contact types have optional fields with variety of contact information, including phone, cell phone, fax, email, address, zip code, etc. Such data management is very suitable for universities.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/images/collective.contact.core.png" alt="collective.contact.core.png" style="text-align: center; " class="image-inline" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">collective.contact.core can be useful for all kinds of organizations, despite their size, number of employees or subdivisions. Created directory is easy to manipulate and can be branched or edited at any time.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">collective.contact.core adds new content types, but preserves Plone functionality, especially concerning users’ rights. Every ‘organization’ content type is similar to folder, thus you can specify in the <strong>Sharing</strong> tab what rights users have . Moreover, default Plone search is very efficient when you want to search for a specific person or position on all the website.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; ">Use collective.contact.core to arrange your organization and contact information.</p>
<h3>Contributors:</h3>
<ul>
<li><span>Gauthier Bastien, IMIO</span></li>
<li><span>Vincent Fretin, Ecreall</span></li>
<li><span>Stéphan Geulette, IMIO</span></li>
<li><span>Cédric Messiant, Ecreall</span></li>
<li><span>Frédéric Peters, Entr'ouvert</span></li>
<li><span>Thomas Desvenain, Ecreall</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left; ">More information:</p>
<ul>
<li><span><a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/collective.contact.core">Plone.org</a></span></li>
<li><span><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.contact.core">Pypi</a></span></li>
<li><span><a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/collective/collective.contact.core">Github</a></span></li>
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      <published>2014-04-17T08:15:00</published>

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      <title>Collective.easyform</title>

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          <p><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/collective.easyform/easyformlogo.png" alt="Collective.easyform-logo.png" style="float: left; " hspace="4px" class="image-inline" />Plone developers constantly search for more efficient ways of Plone performance. Dexterity is a new platform for content types in Plone and will be used instead of Archetypes in Plone 5. As a result there is necessity to create custom forms using Dexterity.  <br />Quintagroup offers new Plone product - <strong>collective.easyform</strong> that generates web forms that save or mail form input. Easyform provides a Plone form builder through-the-web using fields, widgets, actions and validators.</p>
<h3>How to use:</h3>
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<li><span>Select Easyform from the Add new drop-down menu. Choose form title, description and other settings. </span></li>
<li><span>Add fields or fieldsets to create a unique form that will meet your particular requirements.  There are enough basic field types to satisfy any demands: File Upload, Text line (String), Integer, Yes/No, Date, Date/Time, Floating-point number, Choice, Rich Text, Image, Multiple Choice, Text, Password, ReСaptcha field. </span></li>
<li><span>Continue to customize form by setting the order of fields, defining required and hidden ones, choosing validator, if necessary, and other field type specific settings.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3>Check out our video tutorial on collective.easyform</h3>
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<h3>Try it yourself!</h3>
<p>Collective.easyform is compatible with Plone 4.3.2.  It is distributed as a Python egg and can easily be installed into your buildout similarly to other Plone packages. Visit the following pages to find more information about collective.easyform:</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="external-link" href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/easyform/">Quintagroup.com page</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://plone.org/products/collective-easyform/">Collective.easyform on Plone.org<span> </span></a><a class="external-link" href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/easyform/"></a></li>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://collectiveeasyform.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">Readthedocs documentation</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a class="external-link" href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.easyform">Collective.easyform on wiki</a></li>
<li><a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/quintagroup/collective.easyform">Github repository</a></li>
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      <published>2014-03-18T04:50:00</published>

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          <p>Collective.clipboardupload is a Python package that is developed to simplify the process of inserting images into visual editor in the <strong>Mozilla Firefox</strong> web browser.<br /><span>Since drag-and-drop image inserting will be possible by default only in Plone 5, collective.clipboardupload provides minimal functionality to make work with images in TinyMCE easier in earlier Plone versions. </span><span>Collective.clipboardupload allows to spend less time on uploading, saving and rendering the image and use advanced Clipboard functions. </span></p>
<p>After you have installed the product, you can select:</p>
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<li><span>printscreen,</span></li>
<li><span>area of image, </span><span>opened in, for example, Paint,</span></li>
<li><span>drag and drop picture from local folder,</span></li>
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<p>and copy it to the clipboard. Switch to Plone <strong>TinyMCE</strong> and Paste using your browser menu <strong>Edit</strong> -&gt; <strong>Paste</strong> or key combination. The picture will be automatically uploaded to the same folder, which contains an edited page, and stored as an image content type. Title is automatically generated and can be changed any time. Furthermore, the path to the image itself upon saving in TinyMCE is rendered as <strong>resolveUID</strong> link.</p>
<p>See also screencast that helps to use <span>collective</span><span>.</span><span>clipboardupload</span><span> product for Plone</span>. See video tutorial on how to easily add and manipulate images.</p>
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<h3>Helpful Links</h3>
<p>Collective.clipboardupload  is compatible with Plone 4.+ and <span>Mozilla Firefox web browser</span>. This package is easily installed, since it is distributed as a Python egg and can easily be installed into buildout.cfg file.  To get more information visit the following pages:</p>
<ul>
<li><span>Download releases from </span><a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/collective.clipboardupload/">plone.org</a><span>. </span></li>
<li><span>Get the latest development version from </span><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.clipboardupload">Pypi</a><span>. </span></li>
<li><span>See </span><a class="external-link" href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.clipboardupload">Documentation</a><span> to read about product installation, upgrade, configuration and usage.<br /> </span></li>
<li><span><a class="external-link" href="http://blog.redturtle.it/carica-immagini-in-plone-con-copia-incolla">Information in Italian</a></span></li>
<li>Read interesting <a class="external-link" href="http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/reuse-plonebrowser-in-tinymce-plugin-td7567009.html">discussion</a> on c<span>ollective.clipboardupload functionality.</span></li>
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      <published>2014-03-14T06:09:35-04:00</published>

      <updated>2014-03-17T08:36:03-04:00</updated>

      
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      <title>Plone 4 gets social: Short review of the Plone products that help to integrate social networks</title>

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          <p>Popularity of social networks rose considerably over past couple of years and penetrated all other spheres of the web. Now, when website content can be liked, tweeted or pinned, it is important to be quick and introduce these functions to your website.<br /><span>Wide number of add-ons give opportunity to integrate most popular social networks into Plone and bookmark favourite content or share it with friends. Here is the short review of the Plone products that help to integrate social networks into the Plone-based websites.</span></p>
<p><a class="anchor-link" href="#xhostplus-social">XHOSTPLUS Social </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#sc-social-like">sc.social.like </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#sc-social-bookmarks">sc.social.bookmarks </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#zest-social">zest.social </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#collective-addthis">collective.addthis </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#twitter-and-facebook-widget">Twitter and Facebook widget </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#collective-sharerizer">collective.sharerizer </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#simple-social">Simple Social </a><br /><a class="anchor-link" href="#collective-portlet-socialnetworks">collective.portlet.socialnetworks</a></p>
<h2><a name="xhostplus-social"></a>XHOSTPLUS Social</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xhostplus.social"> xhostplus.social 1.4.6</a> (2013-06-10) is easy to install and use Plone package that helps to display buttons for the 4 most popular social networks: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Linkedin on the Plone site. <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/xhostplus.png" alt="XHOSTPLUS.social" class="image-inline" /><br />After activating XHOSTPLUS Social on the Add-on panel you can configure several options in the <strong>Social Network Configuration</strong>.</p>
<p><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/xhostplus-settings.png" alt="XHOSTPLUS.social settings" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2><a name="sc-social-like"></a>sc.social.like</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sc.social.like">sc.social.like 2.0a1</a> (2013-07-23) is a Plone package that provides simple Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Facebook integration for Plone website.</p>
<p><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/sc.social.like.png" alt="sc.social.like" class="image-inline" /></p>
<p>Several features can be configured in the plugin settings:</p>
<ul>
<li><span>different Plone content types for which plugin can be applied; </span></li>
<li><span>social network icons that can be displayed; </span></li>
<li><span>horizontal or vertical button style; </span></li>
<li><span>plugin-specific configurations for Twitter and Facebook.</span></li>
<li><span><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/sc.social.like-settings.png" alt="sc.social.like settings" class="image-inline" /></span></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="sc-social-bookmarks"></a>sc.social.bookmarks</h2>
<p>You can use <a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sc.social.bookmarks">social.bookmarks 1.2.3</a> (2012-06-12). This particular package adds a Bookmark &amp; Share action to a Plone 4 website pages. Any user can bookmark or share a content from a Plone site to a huge number of services (62 providers already included), for example: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo Bookmarks, BlogMemes, blogmarks, Bluedot, co.mments, Bumpzee, connotea, Digg, Delicious, Linkter, MyShare, Netscape, Reddit, Scoopeo, Simpy, YahooBuzz. <br /> You can choose display style: either icons only or bookmark link with options in the popup.  <img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/sc.social.bookmarks-icons.png" alt="sc.social.bookmarks icons" class="image-inline" /><br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/sc.social.bookmarks.png" alt="sc.social.bookmarks" class="image-inline" /><br />After activating this product in the Add-on panel you can configure its settings in the Add-on Configuration section:</p>
<ul>
<li><span>choose which of provided services will be used for bookmarking; </span></li>
<li><span>select for what content type this options will be possible; </span></li>
<li><span>tick </span><strong>Use as a content action</strong><span> if you want a popup with links to appear only after mouse hovering over </span><strong>Bookmark</strong><span> text, or untick it if you want permanent bookmarks available; </span></li>
<li><span>tick </span><strong>Show icons only?</strong><span> if you want to display only icons without text. </span><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/sc.social.bookmarks-settings.png" alt="sc.social.bookmarks settings" class="image-inline" /></li>
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<h2><a name="zest-social"></a>zest.social</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zest.social">Zest.social 1.3</a> (2012-09-12) adds a viewlet at the bottom right corner of the page that allows to share content on LinkedIn, Twitter or Google. Additionally there is a print button. It is possible to share page on some other services using a popup menu.<img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/zest.social.png" alt="zest.social" class="image-inline" /><br />There are more than 285 services available for sharing and you can quickly search for them using simple popup window.<br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/zest.social-search.png" alt="zest.social search" class="image-inline" /><br />After activating zest.social product it is important to enable viewlet on the particular page. To do this go to <strong>Settings tab</strong> on the editing page and tick <strong>‘Show social bookmarking viewlet’</strong>.<br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/zest.social-settings.png" alt="zest.social settings" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2><a name="collective-addthis"></a>collective.addthis</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.addthis"> Collective.addthis 1.3.3</a> (2013-05-27) combines <a class="external-link" href="http://www.addthis.com/">addthis</a> services with Plone CMS. This package produces a viewlet near the bottom of the page. After clicking on the <strong>Share</strong> button there is a possibility to share the content via more than 285 social network services. <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.addthis.png" alt="collective.addthis" class="image-inline" /><br />You can change configurations on the <strong>AddThis settings</strong> tab. For instance, it is possible to display the most popular social networks icons beside the Share button to make it easier for visitors. Just select necessary icons from the list, choose their order and press <strong>Save</strong>. <br /> <img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.addthis-settings.png" alt="collective.addthis settings" class="image-inline" /><br />You can add your account name with which you are registered on <a class="external-link" href="http://www.addthis.com">http://www.addthis.com</a> and you will be able to view statistic information on sharing. Receiving in-depth report you can learn how sharing is increasing your traffic and what interests your visitors. Use this tool freely for your business.  <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.addthis-add.png" alt="collective.addthis add option" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2><a name="twitter-and-facebook-widget"></a>Twitter and Facebook widget</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.portlet.embed">Embed portlet 1.1</a> (2012-09-04) allows to embed Twitter and Facebook widget with the respective Like and Follow buttons into Plone website page. <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/twitter-facebook-widget.png" alt="Twitter and Facebook widget" class="image-inline" /><br />Except activating the app it is necessary to take code from Facebook and Twitter websites. Useful video tutorial is here <a class="external-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it1hMtZKle8">Plone: embed code from services like facebook, twitter, .... </a><br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/embed-portlet.png" alt="Embed portlet in Plone" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2><a name="collective-sharerizer"></a>collective.sharerizer</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.sharerizer"> Collective.sharerizer 1.4</a> (2012-11-29) simplifies the process of adding a third-party widget to the Plone website. It is not bound to any particular third-party tool, but provides a control panel where the needed Javascript widget can be pasted. Some tools that could be used are <a class="external-link" href="http://www.addtoany.com/">Add to Any</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://sharethis.com/">ShareThis</a>.<br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.sharerizer.png" alt="collective.sharerizer" class="image-inline" /><br />In the settings tab you should tick <strong>‘Display Document Actions Icons’</strong> and add code provided by the relevant service. Here is the example of <a class="external-link" href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/">Facebook Like button</a> implementation.<br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.sharerizer-settings.png" alt="collective.sharerizer settings" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2><a name="simple-social"></a>Simple Social</h2>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.simplesocial">collective.simplesocial 1.8</a> (2013-11-12) is focused on the integration of Facebook within Plone website, including:</p>
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<li><span>Like Button </span></li>
<li><span>Like Box Portlet </span></li>
<li><span>Feed Form Portlet </span></li>
<li><span>Post to Facebook Fan Page </span></li>
<li><span>Custom Facebook Connect Integration </span></li>
</ul>
<p><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.simplesocial.png" alt="collective.simplesocial" class="image-inline" /><br />You would need to create your own app on the <a class="external-link" href="https://developers.facebook.com">developers.facebook.com</a> and insert its information to the settings tab.  <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.simplesocial-configuration.png" alt="collective.simplesocial configuration" class="image-inline" /></p>
<p><a name="collective-portlet-socialnetworks"></a><span>collective.portlet.socialnetworks</span></p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.portlet.socialnetworks"> collective.portlet.socialnetworks 1.2</a> (2013-01-18) allows to add icons with links to your blogger, digg, facebook, flickr, google plus, linkedin, myspace, pinterest, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, vimeo, or youtube accounts. <br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.portlet.socialnetworks.png" alt="collective.portlet.socialnetworks" class="image-inline" /><br />After activating the product go to <strong>Site Setup -&gt; Configuration registry</strong>. Find collective.portlet.socialnetworks there and add links to the social networks you are active on to the record.   E.g.:<br /> <i>facebook|http://www.facebook.com/TalkQuintagroup <br />twitter|https://twitter.com/quintagroup <br />youtube|http://www.youtube.com/user/quintagroup</i><br /><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/zoriana/plone_social/collective.portlet.socialnetworks-settings.png" alt="collective.portlet.socialnetworks settings" class="image-inline" /> <br /> Number of Plone packages for Social media websites integration increases. It is important to choose the one that suits your website or web application. Consider not only display options, functionality, speed, and number of social networks presented, but also the way such add-ons influence Plone website structure and code.<br /><span>Plone, social networks and Internet in general are constantly developing so it is important to be familiar with the latest trends. Integrate social media platforms to your Plone website and people will find you.</span></p>
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          <p>Dear Clients,</p>
<p>Quintagroup will be performing a scheduled software maintenance on all Quintagroup servers due to planned release of a security fix for&nbsp;Plone. Service interruptions are expected to be brief and will likely go unnoticed, but you may experience some minor ones.</p>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>When:</strong>&nbsp;December 10th, 2013</p>
<p><strong>Time:</strong>&nbsp;15:00-17:00 UTC (<a class="external-link" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Plone+security+patch+release&iso=20131210T15">see&nbsp;<span class="link-external">in your timezone</span></a>)</p>
<p><strong>Expected Impact:</strong>&nbsp;Website availability varies</p>
<p><strong>Recommendations:</strong>&nbsp;Suspend advertising programs during this window, disable notifications from website monitoring systems</p>
<p><strong>Security advisory:</strong>&nbsp;<a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20131210-preannounce">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20131210-preannounce</a></p>
<p>All updates will be posted here.</p>
<p>Thank you for your patience.</p>
<p>Quintagroup team</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-12-10 17:42 UTC:</strong> Security Hotfix successfully installed within maintenance window.</p>
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        <name>zoriana</name>
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          <p>Dear Clients,</p>

<p>Quintagroup will be performing a scheduled software maintenance on all Quintagroup servers due to security vulnerability in Plone - it was said that issues lay in code execution and privilege escalation. Service interruptions are expected to be brief and will likely go unnoticed, but you may experience some minor ones. </p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> June <ins>18th</ins> <del>11th</del>, 2013</p>
<p><strong>Time:</strong> 15:00-17:00 UTC (see <span class="link-external"><a href="http://go.quintagroup.com/maint-20130611T1500-time">in your timezone</a></span>)</p>
<p><strong>Expected Impact:</strong> Website availability varies</p>
<p><strong>Recommendations:</strong> Suspend advertising programs during this window, disable notifications from website monitoring systems</p>
<p><strong>Security advisory:</strong> <span class="link-external"><a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130611-announcement">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130611-announcement</a></span></p>
<p>All updates will be posted here.</p>
<p>Thank you for your patience.</p>
<p>Quintagroup team</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-11 14:40 UTC</strong>: Plone Security Team delayed Hotfix release by 1 week (to improve reliability of essential infrastructure). New release date: 2013-06-18 15:00 UTC.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-18 15:07 UTC</strong>: Hotfix was released.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-18 15:18 UTC</strong>: Hotfix file validated.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-18 15:25 UTC</strong>: Hotfix rollout procedure tested.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-18 16:27 UTC</strong>: Hotfix rollout progresses. The Plone 2.5 instances are having issue and we're acting upon them. Plone Security team will be rolling up updated version soon, and we'll be updating the hotfix.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2013-06-18 16:49 UTC</strong>: Hotfix rollout finished. There are known issues with Authentication on some sites and specific software configurations. If your site is experiencing issues, please <a href="http://go.quintagroup.com/support">report</a>. We are reviewing the logs, but Unauthorized exception is often filtered and is not recorded in the logs, this complicates issue detection.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: start; ">Recently it was announced of the first release of a free Plone theme, designed and developed by <a href="http://quintagroup.com">Quintagroup</a>: Python Reel, your Free Responsive theme for Plone 4.2.x  that holds a great promise to become even more popular than well-loved Schools and SunRain, all-time favourites among Free Plone Themes.</span></p>
<p><span style="text-align: start; "> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Let’s see, if those expectations can actually live up to become true in today’s mobile-dominated web.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/images/PythonReel.jpg/image_preview580" alt="Python Reel theme" class="image-inline" /></p>
<h2>Visual Design</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At first glance design-wise Python Reel gives off that animalistic vibe that is so in for 2013, presenting the graceful styling inspired by the shape of snake. But,  it’s much more softer  take on  a serpent,  with pastel colors and elegant typography Python Reel is suitable for  most business/personal websites.  Still, Python Reel is not so simple and gentle as it may look.</p>
<h2>Responsive Web Design</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">To start off, Python Reel features Responsive Web design to present itself with grace on any device, be it a small smartphone,  a tablet or  widescreen  HD PCs.  Take a look at the website on touch phone, 7-inch tablet, iPad:</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/images/mobile_devices.jpg" alt="Python Reel Mobile" class="image-inline" /></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As you see, the whole content is resized and repositioned to be more device-appropriate. 2013 is considered to be a year when mobile web usage will finally overtake PC’s. It’s crucial more than ever to have your website mobile-ready.  Fully responsive Python Reel satisfied all those requirements, coming also with mobile-first navigation and  touch-enabled carousel.</p>
<h2>Mobile-first Navigation</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mobile users are often looking for immediate answers; they want the information and they want it now.  Simple responsive navigation won’t do, it will just take up an entire mobile screen, without actually showing much.  Python Reel has a native support for quintagroup.dropdownmenu product that transforms multi-level navigation into an elegant responsive drop-down menu, built following mobile first approach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With a simple responsive menu you get all menu items listed at the top, which is quite messy.  Mobile-first navigation looks as a select box that triggers a pop-up with the complete multi-level navigation menu.</p>
<h2>Responsive/Touch-Enabled Carousel</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Having a carousel slider on your Plone website is not a big deal, but making it  responsive to smaller devices, meaning tablets and smartphones is a completely different story.   In Python Reel just with a few clicks you can have an elegant <a class="external-link" href="http://themes.quintagroup.com/product/python-reel">image slider</a> that is not only scalable, but can be positioned in the top area or just below the header.</p>
<h2>Сompass-powered Theme</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Now, let’s look under the hood, Python Reel is powered by Compass framework built on top of Sass. So, unlike most Plone Themes this one is coded in another, cleaner fashion. CSS templates are well-structured and reusable, thus making maintenance and deep customization  easier as well.</p>
<h2>Top Area as a Focal Point</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is where themes like Python Reel come on stage. Python Reel let’s you set your header images with the logo that comes  in a light and dark versions. The theme will allow you to set the colors of your navigation menu, including the text info.  Write your own slogan. Instead of one picture, create a carousel and change its background to match overall color palette on your website. Fortunately, the theme is rather friendly with the user,  changing colors is just a matter of changing its  html number.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With such  a combination of  features,  you can quickly create a good looking home page that looks like it was built by a professional designer.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Layout Flexibility</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One of my favourite features in Python Reel is the columns settings. The columns section will allow you to set up to three columns.  You can have your content on the left with a portlet on the right, flip that around, have portlets on both sides, adjust their width or even remove them altogether. ContentWellPortlets extension in turn let you add portlets to any page section header, footer, content.   This way Python Reel theme will display a number of page layouts that allow each page to be individually customized without additional code. This allows for quick creation of multiple page designs within the site.</p>
<h2>Social Media</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Python Reel would not be mobile enough without social media to share the content and connect with your visitors on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin; keep them up-to-date with the latest news in RSS.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Try it out</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After spending several hours playing with Python Reel on <a class="external-link" href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com">plone-demo</a>, I can say it is a pretty solid theme. Seeing Python Reel only on pics doesn’t really do it justice though. You’ll need to switch on your imagination. There is little to nothing you couldn’t customize in this theme with proper tools and knowledge. So you need to try out this theme for yourself and get a real feel of what Python Reel has to offer, how easy it’s to personalize and how great and versatile it can look.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Support</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Lastly, let’s cover support.  All Plone themes are not made equal.  Some, like Python Reel, are flexible and can be used for virtually any purpose. This is great, but sometimes the options can be overwhelming. As for Python Reel all customization instructions are provided in README.txt. But if there are some things you don’t fully understand or have trouble with, you can always <a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/python-reel-plone-theme/issues">open the ticket</a>.  Downloading for free Python Reel you get a solid product that will continue to receive updates as well as support into the future.</p>
<h2>Get Your Plone Theme</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Overall, I really like Python Reel  and think this Plone theme can fit most business fields really well.  It’s easy to set up and customize,  plus it responds to your viewer’s device. Python Reel gives you plenty of options, but at the same time, not enough to overwhelm you. What I love most about this Plone theme in particular is how flexible it is.  It can be used for websites ranging from single-column to 3 column responsive sites.   This theme could be your ticket to mobile market.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>You can download Python Reel from:</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Homepage: <a href="http://themes.quintagroup.com/product/python-reel">http://themes.quintagroup.com/product/python-reel</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Plone.org: <a href="http://plone.org/products/python-reel-plone-theme">http://plone.org/products/python-reel-plone-theme</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Pypi: <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.pythonreel">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.pythonreel</a></p>
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        <name>Ihor Berehulyak</name>
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      <published>2012-12-24T12:05:00</published>

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      <title>Become Responsive with Plone Themes</title>

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          <p>The tendency towards building user-friendly and facilitating technologies is booming, with new methods and strategies appearing with the speed of light. We want all possible life conveniences to be at our disposal twenty four hours a day seven days a week. Internet is not a happy exception. As well as mobile phones - everyone would anyway admit that these two inventions made our lives much easier. Internet available on your cell phone - another benefit, while responsive view of your website when browsed on a mobile device - the following step towards enhancing the quality of our hasty twenty-first-century lifestyle. With responsive themes you can not only benefit from purely technical aspects of surfing the net from your mobile, but also from the aesthetic and functional ones.</p>
<p>Want to make your website easy to browse on a mobile device and engage more visitors? You are on the right way - not only does Quintagroup suggest responsive Plone themes, but we also can offer two of our responsive themes for free - <a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain">SunRain</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools">Schools</a>. It means one more benefit on behalf of Quintagroup -  there are not so many free responsive Plone themes, while using our design services enables you to download and implement them to your mobile website.</p>
<p>Apart from the usual functionality, design customization and bright palette of colors, you can stop bothering about usability of the mobile version of your website. Responsive themes enable your website to widen the list of visitors by engaging users browsing the net more and more often on their mobile devices.</p>
<p>Responsive approach to our themes is based on CSS3 media queries that help easily switch between different layouts in order to accommodate for different screen sizes. You won’t have to wait while your mobile device is ‘thinking’ over loading your website that was primarily designed for desktop browsing, you won’t have to zoom it to see some tiny icons or buttons (because, for example, primarily they were designed for desktop browsing). Responsive themes ensure accessibility of your content and simple mobile-oriented navigation.</p>
<p>So, ‘fresh up’ your website with responsive Plone themes and make it more appealing to your users.</p>
<h2>SunRain Responsive Theme</h2>
<p>Functional and interesting design of the free SunRain Plone Theme created by Quintagroup with two different views depending on your taste and needs - Sun and Rain - is now also available for mobile devices. Click on the screenshot to find out more about its key characteristics.</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain"><img src="http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain/sunrain-mobile.png/image_preview" alt="SunRain Responsive Theme" class="external" /></a></p>
<p>Got interested and want to download? Follow this way:</p>
<ul>
<li>Download from plone.org: <a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/sunrain-plone-theme/">http://plone.org/products/sunrain-plone-theme/</a></li>
<li>Download from pypi: <a class="external-link" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.sunrain/">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.sunrain/</a></li>
<li>Home Page: <a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain">http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain</a></li>
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<p><strong> </strong></p>
<h2><strong>Schools Responsive Theme</strong></h2>
<p>Adaptable and functional free Plone Theme designed by Quintagroup team has now become responsive. Click on the screenshot to find out more about its key characteristics:</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools"><img src="http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools/schools-mobile.png/image_preview" alt="Schools Responsive Theme" class="external" /></a></p>
<h3>Got interested and want to download? Follow this way:</h3>
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<li>Download from plone.org:  <a class="external-link" href="http://plone.org/products/schools-plone-skin/">http://plone.org/products/schools-plone-skin/</a></li>
<li>Download from pypi: <a class="external-link" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.schools">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.theme.schools</a></li>
<li>Home page: <a class="external-link" href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools">http://skins.quintagroup.com/schools</a></li>
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<h2>Quintagroup Plone Themes - SunRain and Schools Cases</h2>
<p>If you want to see how our SunRain and Schools themes can be implemented in practice, you may browse the following websites and check presently available solutions:</p>
<ul>
<li>SunRain Plone Theme designed by Quintagroup: <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/uROos">http://goo.gl/uROos</a></li>
<li>Schools Plone Theme designed by Quintagroup: <a class="external-link" href="http://goo.gl/YTvae">http://goo.gl/YTvae</a></li>
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<h2>Give It A Try!</h2>
<p>You may also go to <a class="external-link" href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com">plone-demo.quintagroup.com</a> and kill two birds with one stone - not only does it give you an opportunity to try working with Plone, but also deal with the themes themselves. Follow the instructions to log in as Plone administartor, then go to the ‘ploneadmin’ dropdown menu in the right upper corner, choose ‘Site Setup’ button, find ‘Diazo theme’ icon under ‘Plone Configuration’ settings and choose the theme you’re interested in. This will help you make up your mind quicker and prompt you to contact us for further details.</p>
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        <name>Olha Lehka</name>
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      <published>2012-07-24T09:02:58-04:00</published>

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          <p><a href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com"><img src="http://quintagroup.com/cms/plone/demo/plone-demo.png/image_preview" alt="Plone Demo" style="float: right; " class="image-rigth" /></a>Quintagroup has recently launched a new version of our <a class="external-link" href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com/">Plone Demo</a> website, where you can see and feel Plone CMS at first hand.</p>
<p>Admin demo account can be used to log in and, thus, get the experience of a true Plone user. You will be able  to add content by creating pages, folders, events; move content between site sections; manage workflow for every content item by publishing or making it private; and much more.</p>
<h3>Plone Add-ons</h3>
<p>Apart from out-of-the-box Plone features, you can try several Plone add-ons in work. These are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com/add-ons/ploneformgen">PloneFormGen</a>, a tool for creating/managing online forms</li>
<li><a href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com/add-ons/carousel">Plone Carousel</a>, a tool for creating image carousel in Plone</li>
<li><a href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com/add-ons/plone-embedly">collective.embedly</a>, a tool for embedding video, images and other rich  media files via providing their URL</li>
<li>ContentWellPortlets, a tool for adding portlets into places other than left and right columns</li>
<li><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/quintagroup.dropdownmenu">Plone Drop Down Menu</a>, a tool for creating multi-level navigation menus</li>
<li><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/qSEOptimizer">Plone SEO</a>, a tool for editing meta tags to enhance search engines visibility of Plone sites</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plone Themes</h3>
<p>Plone demo site also has Quintagroup diazo themes for Plone installed. There are 15 themes  right now, they are all very different and include a bunch of theme-specific features. You can try any of the installed Plone themes right now by following the instructions on <a href="http://plone-demo.quintagroup.com/add-ons/plone-themes">Plone Themes</a> page. Enjoy Plone new look!</p>
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        <name>Olha Pelishok</name>
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      <published>2011-12-30T04:40:00</published>

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          <p><a href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/sunrain">SunRain theme</a> is a free theme, initially developed for Plone 3, but now can be activated on Plone 4.0 sites.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>The theme includes 2 different views: default 'Rain' and 'Sun' (can be activated via ZMI) - click the following screenshots to see full-screen images.</p>
<p><a href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/skins-screenshots/rain.png"><img src="http://skins.quintagroup.com/skins-screenshots/rain.png/image_mini" alt="SunRain Plone Theme" title="Rain" /></a> <a href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/skins-screenshots/sun.png"><img src="http://skins.quintagroup.com/skins-screenshots/sun.png/image_mini" alt="SunRain Plone Theme" title="Sun" /></a></p>
<h3>Additional Portlets</h3>
<p>Theme comes with <a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/quintagroup.portlet.static">Static Stylish portlet</a>, that allows to add specially-styled text portlets: 'Green Item' and 'Grey Item'. Apart from setting portlet background color, such portlets has portlet text of different size. This allows creating portlets with important information which will easily be noticed by site users. Static Stylish portlets also include special styling for portlet links.</p>
<p>The theme is tested with <a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/quintagroup.portlet.cumulus">Portlet Cumulus</a> that allows adding Tag Cloud portlet to Plone site.</p>
<h3>Other features</h3>
<p><span>SunRain theme has 'subscribe' viewlet integrated, that adds 4 actions 'Share on Twitter', 'Share on Facebook', 'Send this' and 'Subscribe to RSS'. You can set necessary icon links as simply as editing corresponding portal_action items in ZMI. You are also able to hide/show items that you need.</span></p>
<p>SunRain Theme uses customizable slogan and replaceable logo.</p>
<h3>Want SunRain theme?</h3>
<p><span>You can freely install and customize SunRain Plone Theme on your Plone 4 instance right away. Simply add <i>quintagroup.theme.sunrain</i> to eggs and zcml sections of your buildout.cfg file, rebuild it, restart your Plone site, and activate the theme via Site setup -&gt; Add-ons.</span></p>
<h2>SunRain on TalkQuintagroup</h2>
<p>We decided to use SunRain theme on a new version of our corporate blogging site - <a href="../../">TalkQuintagroup</a>, that has just migrated from Plone 2.5.1 to Plone 4.0.7. The theme suits perfectly our blogging purposes because it has special blog and blog listing views styled for collective.blogstar and Products.Quills.</p>
<p><i>We would be very grateful if you <a href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/feedback"><span>inform us</span></a> about Plone site(s) that use our SunRain Theme, so that we add it to the <a href="http://skins.quintagroup.com/live-themes-list">list of live websites</a> with Quintagroup Plone Themes.</i></p>
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        <name>Olha Pelishok</name>
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      <published>2011-07-04T08:55:00</published>

      <updated>2011-07-06T04:17:58-04:00</updated>

      
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          <p>Quintagroup is performing scheduled software maintenance at all Quintagroup servers due to security  vulnerability in Plone.</p>
<p><b>When:</b> June 28th, 2011</p>
<p><b>Time:</b> 14:30-15:30 UTC (see <span class="link-external"><a href="http://go.quintagroup.com/maint-20110628T1500-time">in your timezone</a></span>)</p>
<p><b>Expected Impact:</b> Website is not available</p>
<p><b>Recommendations:</b> Suspend advertising programs during this window, disable notifications of website monitoring systems</p>
<p><b>Security advisory:</b> <span class="link-external"><a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20110622">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20110622</a></span></p>
<p><b>UPDATE:</b> We have to extend maintenance window for another 30 minutes as Hotfix is being rolled out.</p>
<p><b>UPDATE (17:01 UTC):</b> Patch rollout finished. Sorry for inconveniences caused.</p>
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        <name>Myroslav Opyr</name>
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      <published>2011-06-28T09:30:00</published>

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          <p><img src="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/collective.embedly/plone-embedly.jpg" alt="Embedly services in Plone" class="image-left" />Collective.embedly allows to embed videos, images and other rich media to Plone by simply adding external links that are converted into embeddable content. The approach here is to use the Transform machinery to replace the URL with embed code by calling the embed.ly API.</p>
<p>There are more than 200 services that support embed.ly service.  With collective.embedly it becomes very easy to insert content from those websites simply by proving object URL. Embedly-supported serices  s include such video sharing sites as Youtube, Blip.tv, Vimeo; such audio streaming services as Grooveshark, SoundCloud, last.fm; such image/photo stocks as Flickr, and many other: GoogleMaps, Facebook, Twitter, etc.</p>
<h3>collective.embedly: how to embed media to Plone</h3>
<p>To embed media from any of the <a href="http://api.embed.ly/">embedly-supported external resources</a> to Plone - follow such instructions:</p>
<ol><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/collective.embedly/screenshot"><img src="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/collective.embedly/screenshot/image_preview" alt="embedly tool for Plone" class="image-right" /></a>
<li>Open edit form of the object you want to embed content into. Select some text and choose <b>Embedly link</b> style for it. As a result, the text will now look like linked. You should be careful here since TinyMCE makes the whole passage linked, so keep in mind that the whole passage will later be substituted with embedded media.</li>
<li>Select this text again and go to <b>Insert link</b> dialog to insert the URL to the desired object on the external service.</li>
<li>Save this page. Now when rendered, there will be "preview" from embed.ly service inserted instead of the linked text.</li>
</ol>
<p>For more illustrative instructions - see <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly">collective.embedly documentation</a>. You will find how-tos on  embedding videos to Plone from <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/youtube">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/blip-tv">blip.tv</a>, <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/vimeo">vimeo</a> and <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/ted">TED.com</a> websites there. Also see <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/flickr">how to embed images from Flickr</a>, <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/google-maps">how to embed map from GoogleMaps</a>, <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/soundcloud">how to embed audio from SoundCloud</a>, and <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly/facebook">how to embed content from Facebook</a> to Plone.</p>
<p>Screenshot on the right dislays how can a page with different embedly-converted content look in Plone 4. collective.embedly works in Plone 4.</p>
<h3>Give it a try!</h3>
<p>collective.embedly is compatible with Plone 4. It is distributed as a Python egg and can easily be installed into your buildout as other packages for Plone.</p>
<p>Visit the following pages to find more information about collective.embedly:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/collective.embedly">Home Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/collective.embedly">Documentation wiki</a></li>
<li><a href="http://plone.org/products/collective.embedly">collective.embedly on plone.org</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.embedly">collective.embedly on PyPi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/collective.embedly">SVN Repository</a></li>
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        <name>Olha Pelishok</name>
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      <published>2011-03-04T12:05:00</published>

      <updated>2011-04-29T16:58:48+03:00</updated>

      
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          <p><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/quintagroup.analytics" title="Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone"><img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/quintagroup/plone-analytics.png" alt="Quintagroup Analytics for Plone" class="image-left" /></a>Quintagroup Analytics Tool allows to see Plone site content from different perspectives. Presenting site's statistic information in different statistic views, quintagroup.analytics allows to visually audit Plone content.</p>
<p>Information generated by Quintagroup Analytics can be very useful while migrating your site into newer Plone version. With its help you can audit the content in Plone site before migration and compare it with the migrated website structure.</p>
<p>quintagroup.analytics is now compatible with Plone 4 and Plone 3. But we plan to test it on Plone 2.5 and Plone 2.1 soon: you may expect a new product release for earlier Plone versions in the nearest future.</p>
<h2>How to Use</h2>
<p>You can install quintagroup.analytics on your Plone 4 or Plone 3 instance by adding quintagroup.analytics to the buildout (see detailed <a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/quintagroup.analytics#Installation">installation instructions</a>). Having activated Quintagroup Analytics via QuickInstaller in Plone you will see a new <b>Quintagroup Analytics</b> item appeared under Add-on Products Configuarion.</p>
<p>Quintagroup Analytics configlet consists of several tabs that present different statistics about your Plone site. Every chart is followed by a table, presenting all statistic data in numbers:</p>
<p>So, what statistics can you have by using Quintagroup Analytics?</p>
<ul>
<a href="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/quintagroup/quintagroup.analytics.png"> <img src="http://talk.quintagroup.com/blogs/quintagroup/quintagroup.analytics.png/image_preview" alt="Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone in Use" class="image-right" /></a>
<li><b>Content Ownership by Type</b> - information about most popular content types on your Plone site. Here you can see the most frequently created content types on your site and their owners.</li>
<li><b>Content Ownership by State</b> - information about your site's content workflow states. Here you can see how many content object are published/submitted for review/etc. and their owners.</li>
<li><b>Content Types by State</b> - information about your site's most frequently created content types and their workflow states.</li>
<li><b>Site Portlets</b> and <b>Legacy Portlets</b> - information about site portlets (legacy portlets) assigned throughout site sections. This information can be exported into .csv format. Apart from having all site portlets listed in one place, you can immediately edit them.</li>
<li><b>Properties Stats</b> - information on certain property values for all site objects, such as titles, descriptions, etc. This information can be exported into .csv format.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Try it!</h2>
<p>Visit the following pages to find more information about quintagroup.analytics features, usage and installation:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/quintagroup.analytics">Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone home page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/quintagroup.analytics">Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone documentation wiki</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quintagroup.analytics">Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone on PyPi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.analytics">Quintagroup Analytics Tool for Plone SVN Repository</a></li>
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        <name>Olha Pelishok</name>
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      <published>2010-11-22T13:55:00</published>

      <updated>2011-04-29T17:03:21+03:00</updated>

      
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