= Plone Tabs (quintagroup.plonetabs) = 

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Plone Tabs is a user-friendly product for managing the tabs on the Plone site without need to go to ZMI. Starting from 0.5 version quintagroup.plonetabs allows to manage portal_actions items on the Plone site from portal_control_panel configlet.

== Links ==

 * Home page - http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/plone-tabs
 * Repository - http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.plonetabs
 * Releases - http://plone.org/products/plone-tabs/releases
 * Watch [http://quintagroup.com/cms/screencasts/qplonetabs Plone Tabs Screencast] to learn about how to create new tabs, change tabs order, delete and edit tabs.

== Plone Tabs Features ==

 * quintagroup.plonetabs allows editing portal tabs, document actions, site actions, folder buttons (and other portal_actions tools) - all via Plone Control Panel
 * possibility to make items visible/invisible
 * possibility to change items order by simple drag-and-drop

== Usage ==

To create new Plone tabs go to your Site Setup:

 * Select '''Plone Tabs''' from the list of '''Add-on Products Configuration'''
 * In the Select category to manage select what items you want to manage
 * Enter the name and the link of the tab you want to create
 * Click '''Save''' button

[[Image(new-new-tab.png, nolink)]]

To change tabs order:

 * Click on the arrows next to the item title you want to change position for
 * Move it up/down to the necessary place

[[Image(reorder.png, nolink)]] 

== How to delete or disable Tabs? ==

 * in case you need to get rid of a tab, press on the bin icon and the tab will be deleted for good.
 * if you only need to disable the tab, for example for some period of time, but keep it available - remove a tick from the box next to the tab's title.

== How to edit Tabs? ==

 * choose that one you want to rename, click on it, type a new ID (title);
 * click this 'Plus' button to change the title, url or a condition under which the tab will be visible

 *  advanced edit allows to set condition (to make tabs selectively appear) under which this tab is or is not visible (this is done in Template Attribute Language (TAL) - an attribute language used to create dynamic templates). Condition (Expression) -- A TALES expression that determines whether the described action should be shown or not.

[[Image(edit-tabs.png, nolink)]]

== Example of qPloneTabs use on '''!http://www.companiesinc.com/:''' ==

[[Image(ci-qplonetabs.jpg, nolink)]]