Plone Tabs (quintagroup.plonetabs)

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 ​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 Add button

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

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.

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