Best Practices of Plone Development

1.8 Setup and Scaffolding 1 BEST PRACTICES FOR PLONE DEVELOPMENT
1.8.6 Setup Script: CustomSetup.py
• Boilerplate:
class CustomSetup(SetupWidget):
type = ’MyProduct Setup’
description="Setup for ..."
def available(self): return functions.keys()
def installed(self): return []
def addItems(self, fns):
out = []
for fn in fns:
out.append((functions[fn]
(self, self.portal),INFO))
out.append(
(’Function %s applied’ % fn, INFO))
return out
1.8.7 Calling Setup
• portal_migrations, Setup
• Can extend to list only un-applied setup, etc.
– Helpful when doing laptop/dev server sync
• Better: create a “customization policy” that spawns fully-customized site
– Samplex product provides example of customization policy
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