A better folder contents view for plone.
- Multi-file upload with Drag&Drop from the desktop
- Improved manual reordering
- Per-document menu with shortcuts to often-needed actions
- Shift-click selection
- Static folder sorting
At its heart, the add-on overrides Plone's browser view for the folder contents. The original view lives in plone.app.content.browser.foldercontents.FolderContentsView. It gets replaced by a more modern version for which the add-on includes some CSS and JavaScript libaries. Namely, they are Bootstrap for theming and drop-down menus and jQuery File Upload for the integrated file uploader. The latter pulls a bunch of dependencies, including jQuery UI. The sortable table implementation also requires jQuery UI.
The default profile only defines a browser layer for the the dependencies of the add-on. The test profile is still empty.
All views are implemented in wildcard.foldercontents.views. The actual folder view is split into multiple views. Additionally, there are the views handling the actions of the folder view.
The templates for the views are stored in the same folder.
- Template: folder_contents.pt
Inherits from plone.app.browser.foldercontents.FolderContentsView. Provides the environment for the folder view. For that, the necessary CSS and JavaScript resources are added to the relevant slots of the master template. The actual folder view is put into the slot content_core. For this the view uses an instance of NewFolderContentsTable. After that, the markup for the forms for the upload and sort function follows.
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Inherits from plone.app.browser.foldercontents.FolderContentsTable. It collects the data for the folder listing. For this it reuses the methods folderitems() and buttons() from FolderContentsTable. The view has no dedicted template. Instead it contains in the attribute table an instance of plone.app.content.browser.tableview.Table, a view for displaying a sortable HTML table. Here, an instance of NewTable is used.
- Template: table.pt
Inherits from plone.app.browser.tableview.Table. For the most part, it swaps out the template. It contains nearly the complete markup for the folder view consisting of the toolbar for the folder actions and the listing table. For the batching support it pulls the helper template batching.pt.
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Handler for the XH requests for the manual folder reordering.
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Handler for the static folder sorting.
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Backend for jQuery File Upload
The CSS and JavaScript files for the add-on are stored in wildcard/foldercontents/resources. Nearly without exception these are third-party components. They are combined and configured in integration.js.