PloneFormGen is due for some refactoring to take advantage of Zope 3 and Plone 3 technologies. But meanwhile, I've taken the opportunity to integrate a couple of handy new contributions.

Ratings-Scale Field

Titus Anderson of the University of Louisville has contributed code for a Likert Scale Field. I've renamed it to be "Ratings-Scale Field" to use a  more common name and reflect its more general usability. This field supplies a table of question rows, each with radio-button answers.

Saved-Data Editor

Andreas Jung contributed an editor for saved data. Switch to the tabular view of your saved data, and you'll have a new option to individual items.

Egg Cooked

This was actually added in 1.2.3. PFG is now available as a PyPI egg. Just add Products.PloneFormGen to the eggs section of your buildout . Jens Klein's great ScriptableFields have also been cooked into eggs and declared as requirements for the PFG egg; so dependencies are automatically handled!

Sprint Planning

I'm hoping to make PFG refactoring a sprint topic at the 2008 Plone Conference. If you're interested, visit the planning page for details and sign up. Andrew Burkhalter and I have been scheming for a possible earlier sprint that might lay the technical foundations. Let one of us know if you're excited by that idea.

-- Steve McMahon