Hello, After some experimentation with Collage, I have a few comments / questions.
1) All changes happen instantaneously. Not a huge deal unless we're talking about the home page of a site. Not sure how this will play with CacheFu if the site is heavily cached. Maybe Malte can shed some light? Perhaps 3.0 staging will take care of this? Will the product be 3.0 ready anytime soon? 2) Go to a collage. Add new content to the first column of that collage. Suddenly, you change your mind and want to move that to another area within your collage. To do this, try to go to another column in your collage, and say "add existing". Add it. Go back to the first column and try to delete it from the first column. It deletes the entire content object from both columns and does not give you the option of pasting it elsewhere. Ideally, drag and drop would be great for this. 3) It is hard to tell what is in your collage. The only way to do this is to drill down to a collage column and view the contents tab via Manage Page / Contents / Edit an object / Click on the column you are modifying in the navigation area. You do not get a contents tab when accessing your collage from its main "root" level, which would be ideal. Additionally, even when you can see navigation items in the navigation portlet, they are not named. 4) You can cut and paste from the Contents tab of your collage and move items from area to another (a workaround for the second issue above). However, if you try and cut and paste the contents of your collage to an area outside of your collage (to preserve the content in case you don't want to accidentally delete it), you can't. All objects created within a Collage are considered Collage objects, not regular Plone objects, as far as I can tell. For our group -- and for flexibility down the road -- we are thinking that perhaps we should not add content objects directly into a Collage, but rather add all of those items to another non-Collage folder. That way we have an upgrade path in the future if we need one. 5) Create a content object outside of your collage. Add it to a collage. It claims to add it as an alias. Delete it from your collage. It deletes it from the collage, but the deletion message implies that it will delete the actual content object from your site, not just an alias. The only way to know that you aren't deleting a piece of content is the "alias" tag next to an item on your collage. Not entirely intuitive. 6) When results from Rich Topics/Smart Folders aren¹t returning anything you still see Title and Description. These items should be able to programmatically disappear. 7) If we could build some out of the box layouts and save those in a library, that would be super great. All in all, a great tool, and we are very excited! - Veda -- Veda Williams Project Manager/CMS Designer ONE Northwest: Engaging People, Uniting Organizations T 206.286-1235 x24 http://www.onenw.org _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
