Forms, models, fields and widgets

Plone includes several alternative form mechanisms

• Dexterity and z3c.form are recommended approaches for Plone 4.1+
• Archetypes is used for content types in Plone 3.x
• zope.formlib is used for stock forms in Plone 3.x

You need to identify which form library you are dealing with and read the form library specific documentation.

Archetypes forms cannot be used outside content management. Please read more about Archetypes in Content section. This documentation applies only for form libraries.

Zope 3 schema (zope.schema package) is database-neutral an framework-neutral way to describe Python data models.

• Processing raw HTTP post requests
  • Introduction
  • Magical Zope form variables
• Modelling using zope.schema
  • Introduction
  • Using schemas as data models
  • Further reading
  • zope.schema out-of-the-box fields
  • Field constructor parameters
  • Schema introspection
  • Field order
  • Default values
  • Validation and type constrains
  • Persistent objects and schema
  • Collections (and multichoice fields)
  • Dynamic schemas
• z3c.form
  • Introduction
  • Related documentation
  • z3c.form big picture
  • Form
  • Fields
  • Widgets
  • Setting the template of an individual widget
  • Setting template for your own widget type
  • Buttons
  • Subforms
  • Creating subforms run-time
  • CRUD form
  • Displaying the status message in a non-standard location
  • Storage format and data managers
  • WYSIWYG widgets
  • Wrapped and non-wrapped forms
  • Embedding z3c.form forms in portlets, viewlets and views
• Files and images
  • Introduction
  • Simple content item file or image field
  • Simple upload form example
  • File-system access in load-balanced configurations
  • Form encoding
  • File field contents
  • Constring download URLs
  • Streaming file data
  • POSKeyError on missing blob
  • Widget download URLs
  • Migrating custom content for blobs
• Using zope.formlib
  • Why learn how to use a new framework?
  • Creating a simple feedback form
  • Adding validation
  • Customizing the template and the widgets
• PloneFormGen
  • Introduction
  • Creating content items from form submission
  • Integrating custom field types
  • Fail-safe email sending
• Vocabularies
  • Introduction
  • Creating vocabulary from list of objects
• WYSIWYG text edit
  • Introduction
  • Content linking
  • Editor preferences
  • Applying styles only edit view
  • Customizing TinyMCE options
  • Custom field-specific style list for TinyMCE
  • Rich text transformations
  • Hacking TinyMCE Javascript
  • TinyMCE plug-ins
  • Adding a new plug-in
  • Customizing existing plug-in
  • Ploneboard and anonymous editor