vs.flexigridsearch 0.4.1

Plone search results through flexigrid

vs.flexigridsearch

vs.flexigridsearch provides a drop-in replacement to the search.pt template of Plone 3/4. The search results are presented as a sortable table using the jQuery flexigrid plugin.

Installation

• add vs.flexigridsearch to the eggs option of your buildout configuration and re-run buildout

• create a new Plone site using the related Plone3 or Plone 4 extension profile of vs.flexigridsearch

• or import the related profile for an existing Plone site through portal_setup (Import tab) (there are dedicatd profiles for Plone 3 and Plone 4 since we need different flexigrid versions due to different jQuery versions in Plone 3 and 4).

Usage

• no special usage: perform a search and the result should be rendered using the flexgrid jQuery add-on.

Configuration

• vs.flexigridsearch uses a property sheet under portal_properties/flexigridsearch_properties for its configuration:

  • portalTypesToSearch - a list of portal types to be searched (a future version of the software will use the configuration of Plone)

  • sort_limit - maximum number of hits to be retrieved from portal_catalog. The parameter name is kind of misleading but the portal_catalog will really limit the number of returned rows

  • columns - defines the columns of the flexigrid table. In general vs.flexigridsearch can support all searchable indexes of the portal_catalog:

    • getId (this should be always included if you want a clickable link to the content object)

    • Description

    • Title

    • created

    • Creator

    • start

    • end

    • effective

    • expires

    • location

    • Subject

    • getObjSize

    • review_state

    • portal_type

Requirements

• tested with Plone 3.3.X, 4.0.X

Translations

Due to the lack of a proper i18n framework in Plone we provide our own home-grown i18n translation functionality in skins/vs_flexigridsearch/vs_flexigridsearch_translations.js. Please add your translations directly here.

Licence

vs.flexigridsearch is published under the GNU Public Licence V 2 (GPL 2)

Authors

Andreas Jung

[e-mail]

www.zopyx.com

Veit Schiele

[e-mail]

www.veit-schiele.de

Changelog

0.4.1 (2011/05/24)

• more robust parsing of configuration properties

• updated documentation

0.4.0 (2011/05/23)

• i18n for templates and JS code (English, German)

0.3.1 (2011/05/20)

• fixed improper url usage

0.3.0 (2011/05/20)

• update documentation

• directly replacing search.pt (no more custom_search.pt)

0.2.2 (2011/05/19)

• overwriting search method in order to act as a drop-in replacement for the standard plone search results page

0.2.1 (2011/05/16)

• added getId to default columns

0.2.0 (2011/05/12)

• now compatible with Plone 3 and 4

0.1.1 (2011/05/12)

• added support for more standard indexes

• documentation update

0.1 (2011/05/11)

• Initial release