upfront.navportlet 1.0

Navigation porlet with a dedicated catalog

Introduction

upfront.navportlet provides a navigation portlet that uses a dedicated navigation catalog for it's queries. It is otherwise identical to the standard Plone navigation portlet.

This portlet uses a dedicated catalog for navigation to ensure that navigation can work indepentant of the portal_catalog. By using a separate catalog the indexes and metadata required for navigation is made explicit.

The development of this portlet was inspired by upfront.diet: http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/Members/roche/where-im-calling-from/upfront-diet

Compatibility

Works with Plone 3 and 4.

Installation

Please note that this package overrides the standard Plone navigation portlet.

1. Simply include it as an egg in your buildout and run buildout again:

[buildout] ... eggs = upfront.navportlet

There is no need to include it in the zcml section of your buildout configuration since it uses z3c.autoinclude to install itself.

2. Start your Zope instance and install it using the portal_quickinstaller.

3. If you install upfront.navportlet into an existing site, you can reindex all content in your site in the nav_catalog using the Navigation Portlet configlet in Site Setup.

Custom Content Types

If you have custom content types that need to be displayed in the Navigation Catalog you need to create a generic setup profile and list your content types in archetype_tool.xml, eg.:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <archetypetool> <catalogmap> <type portal_type="MyType"> <catalog value="portal_catalog"/> <catalog value="nav_catalog"/> </type> </catalogmap> </archetypetool>

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