Miscellaneous information

This section describes functions and APIs which are not directly related to any bigger subsystems.

# Managing member profile (portal_membership under site root)

• Context helpers
  • Introduction
  • IPortalState and IContextState
  • Use in templates and expressions
  • Tools
• Zope DateTime
  • Introduction
  • DateTime API
  • Converting between DateTime and datetime
  • DateTime problems and pitfalls
  • Parsing both US and European dates
  • Friendly date/time formatting
• Sending email
  • Introduction
  • Manually calling MailHost
• Annotations
  • Introduction
  • HTTP request example
  • Content annotations
• Normalizing ids
  • Introduction
  • Creating ids programmatically
  • Other
• Monkey-patching
• Command-line interaction and scripting
  • Introduction
  • Starting interactive interpreter
  • Running scripts
  • Cron and timed jobs
  • Scripting context
  • Committing transactions
  • zopepy
  • Setting up ZEO for command line-processing
  • Posing as user
  • Spoofing HTTP request
  • screen
• Clock and asyncronous tasks
  • Cron jobs
  • Clock server
  • Asynchronous
• Flowplayer
  • Introduction
  • Creating a custom Flowplayer
• Navigation trees
  • Introduction
  • Creating a custom navigation tree
  • Excluding items in the navigation tree
  • Querying items in natural sort order
• Search engine optimization (seo)
  • Introduction
  • robots.txt
  • Procedural robots.txt
• Creating your own Paster templates
  • Introduction
  • Extending ZopeSkel
  • Developing template egg with paster and buildout.cfg
• Facebook integration
  • Introduction
  • Like button
  • OpenGraph metadata
• Slidehows and carousels
  • Introduction
  • Migrate Products.Slideshow to Products.Carousel
  • Setting every carousel widths on the site
• Upgrade tips
  • Introduction
  • Clear catalog
  • Fix persistent utilities
  • Upgrading theme
  • Theme fixing and portal_skins
  • Enabling plone.app.discussion after Plone 4.1 upgrade
• HTML manipulation
  • Introduction
  • Rewriting relative links
• Changing Portal Transforms Settings via Python
  • Introduction
  • Writing an Generic Setup Import Step Method
  • Registering the Import Step Method with Generic Setup
  • Calling the Import Step Method in ZMI, portal_setup
• Running plone.org site locally
  • Introduction
  • Base buildout and Zope
  • XDV theming
  • Notes