Best Practices of Plone Development

1.11 Developing With Others 1 BEST PRACTICES FOR PLONE DEVELOPMENT
1.11.4 Snychronizing of Content
• Create starter content in setup scripts
• Create starter content in ’.zexp’ files
– Can’t change, though
• Use ’ZSyncer’ to sync from one server to another
• Use AT ’XMLTool’ or ’Marshall’ to export/import XML of content
– GenericSetup will help here in the future
1.11.5 More Information
• Examine good products
– PloneHelpCenter (straightforward, AT product)
– SimpleBlog (AT product with TTP prefs, etc)
– Samplex (scaffolding, customization policies)
– listen (uses of Five/z3 technology)
• My Site 1 tutorial
• RichDocument tutorial
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