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Plone i18n: a brief tutorial

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The following tutorial details the steps I took to internationalize (starting with a Spanish translation) the interface of Plone Translation Hub, a Plone Archetypes-based product.

Contents

Basic Plone i18n with i18ndude
Advanced Plone i18n
Translating workflow states and transitions
Accessing the Plone translation machinery directly

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Basic Plone i18n with i18ndude
First, processing your UML model via ArchGenXML (assuming you have i18ndude installed) [...]

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April 20th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

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Updating Plone user roles programatically

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Today for a site using Plone Translation Hub I had to programatically update the roles for all users who had logged in since March 9th, given that this group was known to be responsible enough to be worthy of the "Reviewer" role. One of the site managers asked that I simply run a "SQL [...]

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March 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

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Getting AWStats to show Plone-authenticated users

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I’m using AWStats to track usage on a Plone site that’s essentially a portal for collaborative document translation. That means that most users of the site need to login to do anything useful, and I want to see who’s logging in along with the rest of the stats on my site.
For hosting the site, [...]

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Written by mdorn

October 15th, 2006 at 7:12 pm

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Optimizing Plone performance with caching

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NOTE: This document is something of a brain-dump. I’m still experimenting with various caching techniques, and would like to organize it somewhat better, so it’s currently a work in progress.
I’ve long been a big fan of the Plone CMS, which powers this very Web site. Any ambivalent feelings I may have had about [...]

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Written by mdorn

September 9th, 2005 at 3:07 pm

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Launching the site

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Welcome to my third or fourth attempt at a site resembling a Web log! This one runs on a state-of-the-art Python-based, open source Content Management System called Plone. Certainly far more more firepower than any Web log needs, but I’m thinking that using this as a platform will have spillover effects that create [...]

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Written by mdorn

September 6th, 2005 at 4:17 am

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