[EuroPython] Plone info

[Tom Deprez]

>> I'm a little bit lost in Plone, but can somebody point me to a
>> document where I can find out about the folliowing:
>>
>> 1) Add a 'metadata' property to some of the documents.
>
> Like, e.g. "interview date"? :-)

yup

> This seems to be a more a zope than plone question, and I don't know
> how to do it.
>
>> 2) How to create an index_html page with the whole plone framework
>> (ie navigation, header, footer, etc), but in which I can use some
>> page template code to iterate over a python script. All I need to
>> know is what I've to do to get some custom content (in this case an
>> iteration over a python script) on a page (eg index_html) with the
>> plone layout.
>
> This is easy, ish.  And I've already done it for /epc/interviews/.
> What I did was (1) download the plone 1.0.5 source (2) in the ZMI
> upload CMFPlone/skins/plone_forms/folder_listing.pt to
> /epc/interviews/index_html (3) hack at this a bit.

ha... but I'm coming from the ZMI programming, so I look at it in
another way. I've already code to provide what I want, but I didn't had
the knowledge about the plone layout issues.

>> It's probably easy, but I'm unable to find the right documentation
>> and this costs too much of my time. I hope there are some Plone
>> addicts which can point me directly to the right direction.
>
> I'm planning on staying up as long as it takes tonight to get the site
> ready for public consumption, and suspect #plone on freenode is going
> to be on the receiving end of a lot of questions...
>
> Cheers,
> mwh