Few general questions about Poolyx/Nive

[FFFFFFFab]

Hello,

First, thanks to share your work with Nive, it seems to be a very polished tool to build websites with no effort. My first impression was "whaou, pretty coooool". I very like its design and it seems to be modular.

I have few questions about :

- is it the good place to talk about it, follow news, etc... because this group seems inactive ?

- are you the only contributor of this project ?

- is it in active developpement, any roadmap ?

- what about l10n (possibilities to manage translations of content to maintain a multi-languages website) ?

- is there a way to use another persistence system ? Why you don't use SQLAlchemy ?

- is it possible, if we need, to use another form library than reform ?

- is there a special way to manage custom JS or include specific JS library ? Is it possible to use Fanstatic ?

Thanks in advance,

Fab.

[Arndt Droullier]

Hi,

ah, good questions. I think they could go copy&paste to the FAQ section if you don't mind.

I'm currently preparing the next release and only a few days ago published the pypi.python.org, github url, new website

and so on. So there was no real public development. Right now I'm preparing a few statements and will make the release public.

And that is the roadmap, encourage people to try and use the whole thing.  

If it's possible to rename a google group this will be used otherwise I will create a new one. But for now we can use it.

Now you're a few days ahead of me with your questions and I don't have all the answers now. 

Here is one link, it's not finished yet but may help to understand the pyramid integration:

http://cms.nive.co/website/root/articles/nive_cms_for_pyramid_developers.html

In short: You should be able to use anything you can use in pyramid. So you can use another form library or fantastic.

At least in theory. There may be a few issues here and there.

Though one thing is not possible: The default, auto generated forms use reform and you can not simply replace it.

I'll keep you updated.

Arndt,

2012/11/8 FFFFFFFab <fabien.c...@gmail.com>

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[Fabien Castarède]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. 

Yes a FAQ is a good idea, no problem.

Just a last question (for the moment ;-)) to continue my tests of Nive, how can I include a column element. I just found a quick statement in the documentation that says it happens in the template file and naively I copied/pasted this in index.pt

<span tal:define="column python:context.GetColumn('right')"
      tal:condition="python:column"
      tal:replace="structure view.RenderView(column)"/>

but nothing happened… I think certainly that it needs to do a configuration somewhere or declare something (view ?) ?

Thanks, and good luck for developing next release.

Fab.

[Arndt Droullier]

The edit buttons have to placed in the template manually:

   <span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

         tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsEditorBlocks(context.GetPage().GetColumn(u'right'))" />  

You can put the code somewhere at the end of the template after 

   <span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

         tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsMain(context)" />

And I see, the documentation doesn't say so.

Arndt.

2012/11/9 Fabien Castarède <fabien.c...@gmail.com>

[Fabien Castarède]

Le 12 nov. 2012 à 11:30, Arndt Droullier <ar...@dvelectric.de> a écrit :

The edit buttons have to placed in the template manually:

   <span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

         tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsEditorBlocks(context.GetPage().GetColumn(u'right'))" />  

This is already present in the index.pt.

I also added this :

  <span tal:define="column python:context.GetColumn('right')"

      tal:condition="python:column"

      tal:replace="structure view.RenderView(column)"/>

But I see nothing… Do I have to see a column where I can add page elements when I browse the website ? Or this is done in other way ?

[Arndt Droullier]

I'm sorry, you also need to add another line.

  <span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

        tal:replace="structure cmsview.editBlockColumn(page=context, column=context.GetColumn(u'right'), name=u'right')" />  

So the foot of the template may look like this: 

  <div class="footer"> 

  <tal:block metal:define-slot="right">

    <span tal:define="column python:context.GetPage().GetColumn(u'right')"

          tal:condition="python:column"

          tal:replace="structure view.RenderView(column)"/>

  </tal:block>

  <br style="clear:both"/>

  <span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

        tal:replace="structure cmsview.editBlockColumn(page=context, column=context.GetColumn(u'right'), name=u'right')" />  

  </div>

</div>

</div>

<span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

      tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsMain(context)" />

<span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

      tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsEditorBlocks(context)" />  

<span tal:condition="python:cmsview"

      tal:replace="structure cmsview.cmsEditorBlocks(context.GetPage().GetColumn(u'right'))" />  

</body>

</html>

This should render a rect with edit options for the column, similar to the one below the content area. But this needs a few improvements, for example the column type left/right has to be selected manually in the add column form. 

Arndt.

2012/11/12 Fabien Castarède <fabien.c...@gmail.com>

[Fabien Castarède]

Ok, Thanks, now it's working. Remains just to correctly stylize the template because the column is placed below main on the whole page's width.