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CompositePack Rocks
CompositePack brings joy. ONE/Northwest hearts Godefroid Chapelle.
I just wanted to share some love for CompositePack, which is Godefroid Chapelle's awesome product for creating composite pages in Plone. We are using it to build the homepage of our about-to-launch new website, and it really works beautifully. It really shows off how powerful Plone can be while retaining great usability.
One suggestion I'd offer is that it would be really nice to have a default viewlet for Smart Folders that would list the items found by the Smart Folder in a compact bulleted list.
This would make it easy for non-technical users to create a slot that lists items found elsewhere in the site. Bonus points for lettting the user configure the number of items listed in the slot. (I can easily image large Smart Folders where one might only want to show the first few items in a slot.)
Thanks, Godefroid!
(Love is also due to Shane Hathaway, who created CompositePage, upon which CompositePack is based.)
Indeed
It works well for creating complex pages in different parts of the site while keeping the content of those pages manageable by non-geeks. An oft-used alternative seems to be to create a custom index page in the ZMI, which is sure to eventually drive you mad.
Thanks for the heads up!
I've been meaning to take a look at CompositePack. One of my clients is enamoured with CMFContentPanels, but the HTML it produces is ,in IMO, complete garbage. Hoping CompositePack will be an improvement. :-)