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Integrators & Developers

This section is for anyone interested in trying out Plone, developing for Plone or assessing Plone

Page Installation for Development
How to get Plone installed on your laptop or PC to experiment
Page Data Storage
Ways in which to store data created in Plone
Page Theming
Probably the first thing you want to know is whether you can make your Plone site look like your existing site.
Page Adding a Module/Product
Inevitably, once you've started up Plone for the first time, you'll want to add a module or two to try things out.
Page Tips for collective.xdv
Some rough and ready pointers for getting collective.xdv to work.
Page Setting up a Buildout version of Plone 2.5.5
A quick guide to doing a Plone 2.5.5 instance with buildout. Who knows, this may be useful.
Page How to mount a Plone Site as a separate Data.fs
Mounting a Plone site as separate Data.fs can be very useful if you are running several Plone sites in a single Zope instance.
Page Tips for Archetype-based Content Types
Useful things to know about archetype based content types.
Page Adding a Skins Folder to a Product
All those super-powered developers out there like to put all their theme stuff in the browser directory of a product and wire it all up as Zope 3 components. For us mere mortals, using a skin layer is still much more accessible. However paster doesn't create this for you, so here's how to do it.
Page Importing and Exporting Content
Some basic information about transmogrifier - from the point of view of an integrator rather than a developer.
Page Transmogrifier, I want to ....
.... some hints on how to do stuff with transmogrifier one way or another. Pretty much all of this is documented in the products themselves, this page just points you in the right direction.
Page Patching portal_factory for collective.xdv
Versions of Plone 3 up to and including 3.3.5 have an annoying bug if used with collective.xdv 1.0 rc 8. When you first create a content item the form for initial creation has no theme, the theme reappears again once the item is saved, but this can be a bit disconcerting for editors.
Folder Plone and OU Webauth (SSO)
Instructions and information about how to get Oxford's Webauth working with your plone site
Page Plone 4 and collective.xdv on Mac OSX.5
Steps to install collective.xdv
Page Adding mr.developer
How to add mr.developer to do auto checkout from svn