Author

Michael JasonSmith

Contact

Michael JasonSmith <mpj17@onlinegroups.net>

Date

2013-05-29

Organization

GroupServer.org

Copyright

This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups.Net.

The product provides the core code for displaying pages, and parts of pages to do with profiles. It defines a page, form, the content provider abstract base class, and the concrete viewlet. It also defines a menu.

The gs.profile.base.ProfilePage is based on the SitePage ¹, but it defines the userInfo attribute, that returns a object that implements IGSUserInfo interface.

The gs.profile.base.ProfileForm is based on the SiteForm, but it defines the userInfo attribute, that returns a object that implements IGSUserInfo interface.

The gs.profile.base.ProfileContentProvider is a content provider that extends the site content provider by providing a userInfo attribute.

The gs.profile.base.ProfileViewlet is a subclass of the content provider.

I (Michael JasonSmith) know little about the menu, other than it works. Despite having written the code.

This product defines the menu user_profile_menu. To add an item to a menu use something like the following ZCML:

<browser:menuItems
  menu="user_profile_menu"
  for="Products.CustomUserFolder.interfaces.ICustomUser">
  <browser:menuItem 
    action="password.html"
    title="Change Password"
    description="Change the password you use to log in"
    order="5"
    permission="zope2.ManageProperties"/>
</browser:menuItems>

It registers the action (the URL, password.html above) with the title. If it looks awfully like a viewlet there is a reason for that.

The menu itself is produced by the content provider groupserver.ProfileContextMenu.

• Code repository: https://source.iopen.net/groupserver/gs.profile.base/
• Questions and comments to http://groupserver.org/groups/development/
• Report bugs at https://redmine.iopen.net/projects/groupserver/