One Approach to Managing Users in Plone

Materials from August 2007 presentation

people_folder_listing by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Page template customized from generic folder_listing to display the list of users, sorted by affiliation and last name. Dependencies: "person_types" lines property defined on folder calling template; getPeople python script

getPeople by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Python script to pull in the whole roster of members and return a sorted dictionary of all member properties. Requires the 'sortname' string field to have been added to portal_memberdata Properties tab. This script is used by the people_folder_listing view template.

person_folder_listing by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Customized version of generic folder_listing template that can be applied to a member's folder to provide info about that member in addition to allowing the user to add additional content. Requires getMemberProperties python script.

getMemberProperties by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Python script that takes a member's user ID and returns a dictionary of the properties of that member.

parseEmail by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Fairly lame ;-) script to obfusticate an email address by turning it into an HTML table. Used by person_folder_listing.

One Approach to Managing Users in Plone by Jeremy Smith — last modified 2007-09-12 08:49

Slides from August 2007 presentation on how we handle Plone members at the Center for Mind and Brain which may be applicable to other academic and research departments.