This package does the glue between :

• collective.eeafaceted.collectionwidget
• collective.eeafaceted.z3ctable
• collective.compoundcriterion
• collective.documentgenerator

This build a useable dashboard tool by adapting following things :

• displaying the collectionwidget in a portlet;
• defining an adapter to easily extend the plone.app.collection customViewFields to add our own columns;
• adding a DashboardCollection based on plone.app.collection Collection;
• being able to generate a POD template from what is displayed in a dashboard;
• styling of displayed dashboard.

It is possible to define a central faceted config that will be used by different elements that will use it because getting criteria managed by an only method defined in an adapter, to do so :

from eea.facetednavigation.criteria.handler import Criteria as eeaCriteria

class Criteria(eeaCriteria):
    """ Handle criteria
    """

    def __init__(self, context):
        """ Handle criteria
        """
        super(Criteria, self).__init__(context)
        # let's say we have a centralized faceted config defined at the root and called 'distantfacetedconfig'
        if hasattr(self.context, 'distantfacetedconfig'):
            self.context = self.context.distantfacetedconfig
            self.criteria = self._criteria()

<adapter
  for="eea.facetednavigation.interfaces.IFacetedNavigable"
  provides="eea.facetednavigation.interfaces.ICriteria"
  factory=".adapters.Criteria" />

Sometime you build an index made of the concatenation of some subindexes to workaround ZCatalog weakness. In this case, you could need several faceted filters to query theses indexes, it is possible with combined indexes.

Let's say you have an index for portal_type Folder that stores the portal_type and review_state of contained objects. The index contained_with_review_state content could looks like :

['Document__private', 'Document__published', 'Image__private']

Now if you want to display in a dashboard folders containing Documents that are in state private, you will likely use 2 filters :

• the first listing portal_types (Document, Image, Folder, ...);
• the second listing review_states (private, published, ...).

In the filter list of indexes available, you will have every available portal_catalog indexes and a duplicated list of these indexes prefixed with (Combined). If you select the index contained_with_review_state for the filter portal_types and the (Combined) contained_with_review_state for the filter review_states, this will automatically be combined so selecting Document in first filter and private in second filter will actually query for Document__private.

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• French.
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