This package provides a generic Plone form generator. Use it to build simple, one-of-a-kind, web forms that save or mail form input.
Repository for this add on is at https://github.com/smcmahon/Products.PloneFormGen. A documentation area is at http://docs.plone.org/working-with-content/managing-content/ploneformgen/ and an issue tracker at https://github.com/smcmahon/Products.PloneFormGen/issues
Please use the Plone users' mailing list or the #plone irc channel for support requests. If you are unable to get your questions answered there, or are interested in helping develop the product, contact Steve McMahon: steve@dcn.org.
PFG 1.8 is intended for use with Plone 5+. If you're using Plone 4.1.x-4.3.x, choose PFG 1.7.x. PFG 1.6.x targets Plone < 4.1.
collective.js.jqueryui is no longer required. If you've migrated from Plone 4.x and no other package is using it, you may uninstall it.
- Export/Import is not yet working;
- The ReCAPTCHA config form is primitive.
PloneFormGen is a generic Plone form generator using fields, widgets and validators from Archetypes. Use it to build simple, one-of-a-kind, web forms that save or mail form input.
To build a web form, create a form folder, then add form fields as contents. Individual fields can display and validate themselves for testing purposes. The form folder creates a form from all the contained field content objects.
Final disposition of form input is handled via plug-in action products. Action adapters included with this release include a mailer, a save-data adapter that saves input in tab-separated format for later download, and a custom-script adapter that makes it possible to script simple actions without recourse to the Zope Management Interface.
To make it easy to get started, newly created form folders are pre-populated to act as a simple e-mail response form.
Plone: Plone 5.0b2+
Requires PythonField, TALESField and TemplateFields from Jens W. Klein's ScriptableFields bundle: http://plone.org/products/scriptablefields/ (automatically loaded if you install via Python package).
Encryption of e-mail requires the Gnu Privacy Guard, GnuPG, also known as gpg. See README_GPG.txt for details.
CAPTCHA support requires either collective.captcha or collective.recaptcha. See README_CAPTCHA.txt for details.
- Just add
Products.PloneFormGento the eggs section of your buildout configuration and run buildout. - Restart Zope.
- Go to the Site Setup page in the Plone interface and click on the Add/Remove Products link. Choose PloneFormGen (check its checkbox) and click the Install button. If PloneFormGen is not available on the Add/Remove Products list, it usually means that the product did not load due to missing prerequisites.
- If necessary, use the PloneFormGen configlet in the "Add-on Product Configuration" section of Site Setup to customize the product for your site.
Site managers may control the visibility and availability of many PloneFormGen functions by changing permissions for user roles. A control panel configlet controls role/permission associations for the portal root. For an explanation of how PloneFormGen permissions map to form folder and form field fields, see improvement proposal #3, Provide ways to hide advanced options from classes of users: http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen/roadmap/3 .
As shipped, only managers may use TALES expressions to override defaults and validators. You may wish to add additional roles, but keep in mind that this is a potential security risk; it basically gives the same powers as scripting or skin editing.
PloneFormGen has been continually updated since Plone 2. The maintainers are proud it's still maintained and reliable, but it should not be used as a good example of a current Plone packages. It contains too many historical layers.
Archetypes has been ruthlessly mined for concepts and functionality.
Form and field icons are scavenged from Martijn Faassen's Formulator, and were edited only to add transparency to make them look a bit better on the add items menu.
The mail adapter is basically a tailored version of PloneFormMailer, minus the Formulator adapter machinery. Thanks to PloneFormMailer's authors, Jens Klein and Reinout van Rees for this code and for continual assistance since the package's introduction.
Pierre-Yves Landure provided tremendous help with the i18n machinery. Sebastien Douche and Pierre-Yves Landure provided the French translation.
Martin Aspeli's RichDocument has provided an invaluable reference, particularly in how to handle installation and testing issues.
Martin Aspeli, Wichert Akkerman, Eric Steele, Jens Klein and Reinout van Rees all provided valuable early feedback.
Titus Anderson provided the base code for the Ratings-Scale Field. Andreas Jung contributed the record-editing feature for the Save Data adapter.
Fulvio Casali, Alex Tokar, David Glick, Steve McMahon, Jesse Snyder, Michael Dunlap, Paul Bugni, Jon Baldivieso and Andrew Burkhalter all did amazing things at the December 2008 PFG sprint sponsored by OneNW. Special thanks to David, for the CAPTCHA work, and Andrew for export/ import.
Thomas Buchberger provided the initial CAPTCHA field implementation.
Maurits van Rees has been a co-maintainer for the 1.7.x and 1.8.x series. David Glick was co-maintainer for versions 1.2.5 through 1.7.x. Thanks, Maurits and David!
Nenad Mancevic (Manca) added the widget toolbox and dramatically enhanced the quick edit mode for his Google Summer of Code 2010 project. Thanks to Manca and Google!
Alec Mitchell, Nathan Van Gheem and Eric Steele provided vital assistance with the Plone 5 update.
See the CHANGES.txt file for the very long list of people who helped with particular features or bugs.
Distributed under the GPL v 2.
See LICENSE.txt and LICENSE.GPL for details.