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CMS Plone 4: Changes and Developments

Please see this post for an overview of changes from phone system version 3 to version 4.

Advantages of version 4:

  • responsive design (improved also for mobile devices)
  • faster (also when editing)
  • additional viewing modes (image galleries, portliest)
  • easy use, modern editor (TinyMCE)
  • additional add-ons
  • changes no longer need to be made in ZopeManagementInterface (ZMI)

What does migration entail?

Normal content, including content in two-languages, such as

  • pages
  • collections
  • images & files
  • dates and news items

is available after migration.

Special constructs, e.g. ZMI changes, python-scripts, external methods or javascript and CSS do no longer work in phone 4 and cannot be migrated.

Content types such as 

  • XSLTrans
  • PloneArticle
  • DynDocument
  • PasswordFolder
  • PlonePHP

are no longer supported and cannot be migrated.

It is however still possible to make changes without having to change to ZMI.

Your tasks fr a successful migration might therefore include:

If necessary...

  • changing display option for folders
  • changing XSLTrans to XMLTransformer
  • changing DynDocument-content to a collection or collage (new content types)
  • moving content from password folders to other systems, e.g. to ILIAS

Please contact our CMS support in case of questions: cmsupport@rz.uni-freiburg.de.

 

Unfortunately we are unable to offer new portals. This is due to time restrictions; exceptions may be granted by CIO, Prof. Schneider. 

It is however possible to convert old, unused portals to new phone 4 portals.

The upper limit of portals has therefore be set at 800.

More information on this issue can be found here:siehe http://www.cms.uni-freiburg.de/neusrichtung-cms-begrenzung-der-portale.pdf