Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Products.FacultyStaffDirectory
Version: 2.1a1
Summary: Provides content types for creating and organizing personnel directories within educational institutions. Integrates with Plone's users and groups infrastructure and supports an extensibility framework for custom requirements.
Home-page: https://weblion.psu.edu/svn/weblion/weblion/Products.FacultyStaffDirectory
Author: WebLion Group, Penn State University
Author-email: support@weblion.psu.edu
License: GPL
Description: Version History
        
        ' ' 2.1 -- ' '
        
        * Corrected some CSS display issues with Person pictures.
        
        * Users with the Personnel Manager role can now add Person objects.
        
        * Added a field to the classification gallery view to control the width of the Person images
        
        * Multiple FacultyStaffDirectory objects can now exist in the same site
        
        * Improved product reinstallation performance
        
        * Added an assistant field to confer profile editing delegation on other users
        
        * Added a "can manage personnel" field to the sharing tab
        
        * Added i18n hooks for all fields and templates
        
        * Removed a boatload of unused imports
        
        * Removed WebLionLibrary dependency
        
        * Eggified product
        
        * Configlet icon should now work properly in VirtualHostMonstered sites
        
        * vCard should handle unicode characters properly now
        
        ' ' 2.0 -- ' '
        
        * Added an A-to-Z listing view for Directories and Departments.
        
        * Forced Previous/Next display in the Person editor.
        
        * Bug fixes
        
        ' ' 2.0a1 -- ' '
        
        * Integrated with Plone users and groups.
        
        * Switched extensibility framework to archetypes.schemaextender. More
        than one extender works at once now, and all content types are
        extensible.
        
        * Added Department content type.
        
        * Sortable Name is now available as a SmartFolder index (mainly for
        sorting).
        
        * Added SmartFolder fields for Departments, Classifications, Committees,
        Specialties, and People.
        
        * Templates are faster.
        
        * Non-ASCII characters in Person titles work.
        
        * People now have a Middle Name field.
        
        * Specialties and other types of person groups can now live outside the
        Faculty/Staff Directory.
        
        * Specialties are now listed in a sane order.
        
        * Committees Folders are now addable within Departments.
        
        * Added a configlet in Site Setup to allow customization of phone number
        and user ID validation as well as the ability to disable aspects of
        membrane integration.
        
        * Silenced some deprecation warnings.
        
        * Added support for Plone 3's versioning.
        
        * Renamed content types to avoid collisions with other products.
        
        * Added oodles of new tests.
        
        * Ditched ArchGenXML, making our code much cleaner.
        
        * Made more use of GenericSetup.
        
        ' ' 1.0.1 -- Minor documentation tweaks
        
        ' ' 1.0 -- Initial release
        
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        Versions
        
        Plone 2.5.x or Plone 3.0.x
        
        Dependencies
        
        * Products.Relations
        
        * Products.membrane
        
        * archetypes.schemaextender
        
        * If you're using Plone 2.5.x, the branch of Archetypes available via
        Subversion at
        http://svn.plone.org/svn/archetypes/Archetypes/branches/1.4-schemaextender-support.
        (If you're using Plone 3.0.x, the 1.5.x version that comes with it is fine.)
        
        Description
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory allows you to keep track of people who should be listed on your website.
        Add details just once (even import them from an existing listing) and display them wherever
        you like, however many times you like.
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory integrates with Plone's users and groups infrastructure and supports
        an extensibility framework for custom requirements.
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory provides content types for creating and organizing
        details of people. It has principally been developed for personnel directories in
        educational institutions, but can be repurposed for use in a variety of settings.
        
        The core content type is Person. This has a variety of fields (email, telephone number,
        job title, and so on). You can also easily add your own.
        
        Out-of-the box, FacultyStaffDirectory offers 3 Classifications that can be assigned to
        Person objects: Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students. If these don't work for you,
        you can add your own Classifications (e.g. Administrators, Technicians, Board Members or
        whatever you like).
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory gives several content types for grouping people: Departments,
        Specialties and Committees. If you are not in an institution where these labels make sense,
        you can easily relabel them. In each case, the association between the Person and the grouping
        (e.g. the Person-Specialty relationship) can be given a description. So, for example, if
        Person Jane Doe is in the Artificial Intelligence Specialty, you could give the
        Jane Doe-Artificial Intelligence relationship a description (e.g. "Interested in the cultural
        impacts of machine thinkers").
        
        FacultyStaffDirectory can be configured so that people added to the directory
        automatically become Members of your Plone site, so that each person can edit
        details of his/her own page. It also adds some new roles, to facilitate management of people.
        For instance, the PersonnelManager role can create new specialties and assign people to them.
        
        
        Installation
        
        Buildout (recommended)
        
        1. Add ''Products.FacultyStaffDirectory'' to the eggs section of your buildout, ie.
        # Add additional eggs here
        # elementtree is required by Plone
        eggs =
        elementtree
        Products.FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        configuration and run buildout (typically 'bin/buildout').
        
        2. Restart Zope.
        
        3. Install the FacultyStaffDirectory product using portal_quickinstaller or the Plone
        Add/Remove Products tool under Site Setup. The dependencies that need to be
        installed will install themselves automatically.
        
        Manually
        
        1. Install the dependencies:
        
        1. Put membrane and Relations into your Products folder.
        
        2. If you're using Plone 2.5.x, put the included copy of Archetypes into
        your Products folder.
        
        3. Install archetypes.schemaextender as follows. Please bear with us, as
        this will be a bit tricky until it gets included in a future release of
        Plone:
        
        * If you're using Plone 2.5.x, open the
        archetypes.schemaextender-1.0b1 folder (included) and find the
        "archetypes" folder within. Place the archetypes folder in the
        lib/python folder within your Zope instance.
        
        * If you're using Plone 3.0.x, find the "archetypes" folder,
        somewhere in your Zope instance (lowercase "a", not uppercase "A").
        It's often in lib/python and should have a "kss" folder in it.
        On Windows, it's at C:\Program Files\Plone 3\Python\Lib\
        site-packages\archetypes.kss-1.2.6-py2.4.egg\archetypes.
        Put the archetypes.schemaextender-1.0b1/archetypes/schemaextender
        folder (included) into the archetypes folder.
        
        2. Put FacultyStaffDirectory into your Products folder.
        
        3. Restart Zope.
        
        4. Install the FacultyStaffDirectory using portal_quickinstaller or the Plone
        Add/Remove Products tool under Site Setup. The dependencies that need to be
        installed will install themselves automatically.
        
        
        
        Upgrading
        
        A migration script for using Faculty/Staff Directory 1.x content in
        Faculty/Staff Directory 2.x is in the Extensions folder of this product.
        Follow the instructions inside migrate1dot0to2dot0.py.
        
        Migrations in Plone 3 require the "contentmigration product":http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/contentmigration/.
        
        Using FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        Adding a Faculty/Staff Directory
        
        From the "add" dropdown menu in Plone, select "Faculty/Staff Directory". A
        Faculty/Staff Directory will be created as well as several default items
        inside:
        
        * Faculty (a Classification)
        
        * Staff (a Classification)
        
        * Graduate Students (a Classification)
        
        * Committees (a Committees Folder, which can hold only Committees)
        
        * Specialties (a Specialties Folder, which can hold only Specialties)
        
        Any or all of these default items may be safely deleted as needed.
        
        Membrane Functionality with FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        Out of the box, FacultyStaffDirectory offers the following integration
        with Plone users and groups:
        
        * The Faculty/Staff Directory itself acts as a group
        
        All Person objects created in the Faculty/Staff Directory are
        automatically considered members of this group.  This group also
        provides the option of assigning a global role to all Persons in the
        Directory.  This option should be handled with care.  It is generally
        best to select only the 'Member' role, as this is the most restrictive
        option.
        
        * Departments, Classifications and Committees act as groups
        
        Global role assignment is not available for these content types, but
        the groups they define may be granted local roles throughout the Plone
        site.  For complex academic units, this can be a great time-saver,
        since personnel management can be tied closely to site security
        management.
        
        * Person objects act as users
        
        The Faculty/Staff Directory configlet in Site Setup allows you to
        choose whether Person objects provide passwords for authentication. If
        you are using some other PAS plugin for authentication, such as
        PloneLDAP, ApachePAS, PubcookiePAS or CAS4PAS, you will want to
        disable password provision so that authentication will cascade to
        these other systems.
        
        Users defined by Person objects are automatically granted the Owner
        role locally for that object and its contents.  This allows users to add
        to and edit their own biographies, contact information, etc.  They also
        control sharing rights to their object and can thus allow assistants to
        edit content on their behalf without sharing their own passwords or user
        preferences.
        
        The 'My Folder' action, found in the personal toolbar, is altered by the
        Faculty/Staff Directory product to take users defined by Person objects
        directly to that object. Users defined through the standard Plone UI will
        be taken to the usual location (portal/Members/<userid>).  Likewise, the
        personal preferences link found in the personal toolbar and on the
        plone_memberprefs_panel or dashboard will take Person users to their
        Person objects.
        
        Owners are not granted the rights to add or remove their Person object
        from Departments, Committees, Classifications and Specialties, since these
        collections are used as authorization groups. Instead, this right is
        reserved for site managers and for the newly-created 'Personnel Manager'
        role, installed with the Faculty/Staff Directory product.  The Personnel
        Manager is likewise not granted access to the ZMI or to personal
        preferences for Persons. This allows for fine-grained separation of
        management concerns.
        
        Membrane functionality for Person, Department, Classification and
        Committee objects is configurable.  A switch to turn the function on or
        off is available on the Faculty/Staff Directory Configlet in Site Setup.
        It may be necessary to disable membrane functionality for Person objects
        in systems that have established user bases built on LDAP systems.
        
        Extensibility
        
        Because every organization has a few unique requirements,
        FacultyStaffDirectory supports an extension mechanism based on the
        archetypes.schemaextender library. Using it, you can write plugin products
        which add fields to or otherwise modify our content types. For an example,
        see the FacultyStaffDirectory/examples/FacultyStaffDirectoryExtender
        product and "its README.txt":https://weblion.psu.edu/svn/weblion/weblion/FacultyStaffDirectory/tags/2.0/examples/FacultyStaffDirectoryExtender/README.txt.
        
        Further reading
        
        Further (and more up-to-date) documentation is availiable on the
        "WebLion wiki":https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        Design Rationale & Thoughts
        
        Why the push for just one Directory in a site? Why not just add people to Departments? --
        The main thought behind this was that People could be members of
        multiple departments (i.e., faculty member John Smith teaches courses in
        both MSIS and Computer Science). So where do we put the Person object?
        We'd like to refrain from making two Persons if possible, and the
        alternative of making a Department both a container and a referenced
        object could be nightmarish.
        
        Why add membrane? --
        We wanted a relatively simple way to let members modify their own
        profiles. With membrane, we get that right out of the box since that
        profile *is* the member. We also get nifty groups like "Faculty" and
        "Chemistry Department" and "Some Useless Committee".
        
        How do I manage People across multiple Plone sites? --
        We wish we knew. Suggestions?
        
        Future Plans
        
        * Replacing the templates with Zope 3 views
        
        * Integration with CMFBibliographyAT
        
        * Vitae templates
        
        Possible Gotchas
        
        Skinning plone 2.5.x with DIYPloneStyle 2.5
        
        The implementation of Generic Setup installation in DIYPloneStyle 2.5
        fails to include non-standard skin layers in its skins.  Please note
        that installing a skin product built with this version will cause
        skin-based functionality in FSD to break and may cause site-wide
        template errors due to missing skin layers from the relations product.
        You can fix these problems by manually adding the layers
        'FacultyStaffDirectory', 'relations', and 'relations_images' to any
        skins defined in ZMI &rarr; plone &rarr; portal_skins &rarr; properties.
        
        Authorship
        
        This product was developed by the WebLion group at Penn State University.
        
        membrane integration by Cris Ewing at the University of Washington.
        
        Thanks
        
        Special thanks to Andreas Jung for his early testing, code contributions, and reminding us that,
        yes, people do live outside the United States.
        
        Support
        
        * Please report bugs to the
        "WebLion issue tracker":https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/newticket?component=FacultyStaffDirectory&version=2.0.
        
        * More documentation:https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/FacultyStaffDirectory
        
        * Contact us::
        
        WebLion Project Team
        Penn State University
        304 The 300 Building
        University Park, PA 16802
        support@weblion.psu.edu
        814-863-4574
        
        License
        
        Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Pennsylvania State University. WebLion is
        developed and maintained by the WebLion Project Team, its partners, and
        members of the Penn State Zope Users Group.
        
        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
        under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
        Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
        any later version.
        
        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
        ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
        FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
        more details.
        
        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
        this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
        Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
        
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Classifier: Framework :: Plone
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