Plone Kickstart Talk: Top Add-on Products

Plone Kickstart 2: Top Modules

Christopher JohnsonifPeople

www.ifpeople.net

About Me

• Co-founder, ifPeople• Plone Foundation member• Collaborator and Marketing,

not developing• Making technology accessible

Resultsdrive Web Strategies and Tools

Outline

• Evaluating Modules• Finding Modules on plone.org• How to Add Modules • Highlights & Demos• Q & A

Jargon Watch

• Products = Modules

• Buildout = Build/config tool

• Portlet = widget/box

Evaluating Products

• How is product presented?

• Are people using it?

• Try it – On a test site first!– Make a backup!

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• Content Management System • UserFriendly • Open Source• International Community• Extensive functionality • Customizable

Categories • Auth and User

Management• Basic content types• Buildout• Commerce• Communication• Calendars/Events• Code examples• Database integration &

external storage• Development tools• Documentation

management• Educational• Fields and widgets• Geospatial• Internationalization

• Import/Export• Layout and presentation• Media• Migration scripts• Miscellaneous• Polls/Surveys• Portlets• Project management• Statistics & reporting• Services• Theming tools• Themes• Versioning, Staging and

Deployment• Weblogs• Workflow

How to Add a Module

• Download the product to your server/computer– Automated via buildout

• Restart Plone• Install via Quick Installer

Doc: http://bit.ly/addproductsdoc

LinguaPlone• Category:

Internationalization

• Multi-lingual content management

• Link: plone.org/products/linguaplone

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Create Translations with LinguaPlone

• Allows multilingual content

• Editors easily insert translated pages

• No hierarchy of content

• Works with any layout

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Create Translations with LinguaPlone

Sidebyside translation view

PloneFormGen

• Category: Forms

• Point-and-click form creation!

• Link: plone.org/products/ploneformgen

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Generate Dynamic Forms with FormGen

• Integrate forms onto site

• Send data via email

• Export data to spreadsheet

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Add a Form Folder

Easily added

from “add new”

Add a Fields to Form

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• Create customized fields

• Rearrange fields by dragging and dropping

Generate Dynamic Forms with FormGen

Plone4Artists Calendar

• Category: UI, Calendar• Make any folder a calendar,

provides new views, color code event types.

• Link: plone.org/products/plone4artistscalendar

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Manage Events with Plone4Artists Calender

Click to edit Master subtitle style

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Alternate Views: Calendar List

ATSuccessStory

• Category: Content Type

• Share and features stories with rotating image+text

• Link: plone.org/products/atsuccessstory

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Share Stories with ATSuccessStory

• Features photos, text of success stories on site

• Provides portlet to showcase random stories from Success Story folder

• Add multiple collections, then add portlets to display contents

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Success Stories Managed in Folder

SubSkins

• Category: UI, Theme Tool

• Point-and-click configure a theme for your site

• Link: plone.org/products/subskins

Site Built with SubSkins

SubSkins is a PointandClick Theme Tool

Carousel

• Category: UI

• Add rotating images to any page/folder of site

• Link: plone.org/products/carousel

PloneGetPaid

• Category: Commerce

• Simple shopping cart, many extensions

• Link: plone.org/products/getpaid

• Integrates with PloneFormGen

• Integrates with Salesforce CRM

RedirectionTool

• Category: Admin Tool

• Create aliases and redirects for any part of site

• Link: plone.org/products/redirectiontool

ifSearchMonitor• Category: Report & Analytics

• Track searches on site and provides way to provide recommended results

• Link: plone.org/products/ifsearchmonitor

How to Add a Module

Plone-Salesforce Integration

• Category: Integration

• Send data to CRM with point-and-click tools

• Link: http://bit.ly/plonesalesforce

• Webtox Forms • Events RSVP• Ecommerce

• Data from salesforce.com in PloneAuthentication

PloneSalesforce Integration

Different (and same) data in many places

Data collected from several sources

Duplication frequent

Managing multiple and complex relationships is hard!

The Problem

PART ISending Information from

Plone to Salesforce

Online Forms

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Van Jones

Requests come in through form

Built in Plone

Easy to edit

Dumps directly to Salesforce

Request dashboard in Salesforce


Form Creation

Event RSVPs

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Create campaign in Salesforce


Allow RSVPs in Plone event


Registration form


Campaign members in Salesforce

Ecommerce

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Client: Trees for Life

Make the giving process easier

Make tracking and reporting on giving easier

Reduce technical staff, costs of data management

Goal: Grow online revenue


Online catalogue

Shopping cart & additional donations

Checkout

04/23/09

User data

04/23/09

user data

04/23/09

payment

order

user data

04/23/09

contact opportunity donation details

payment

order

user data

Contact record with donation

Donation details

Web donations create campaign reports

Online Directory

Client: Oregon Environmental Council

Volunteer Management

Client: Center for Economic Progress

Developer-Oriented

• plone.app.blog– plone.org/products/plone.app.blob

• ATVocabularyManager– plone.org/products/atvocabularymanager

• collective.portletpages– pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.portletpage

• Deliverance and XDV

Thank you!

Christopher Johnson

ifPeople | www.ifpeople.netAtlanta, GA USA 678-608-3408x16 | [email protected]

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