1. Plone vs The New Guy The Initial Struggles of a Beginning Plone Developer John Hren University Wisconsin - Oshkosh

2. The Point of the Presentation Help new people (people newer than me) learn more efficiently Give those who train new people some ideas on how to teach Plone Add some new thought as to what should be put in training material Show the steps I went through to create and implement the Time Conflict Card Product

3. Why Am I The New Guy 20 years in Distribution as a Manager, Quality Director, Buyer, Branch Manager Laid off in 2008 Went back to school at UW-Oshkosh in 2009 Majored in Computer Science Graduated May 2011 Started work at UW-Oshkosh June 2011

4. Why is Plone, Plone CMS (content management system) Python Object orientated database TAL Expressions? Otherwise known as a “Simple TAL Expression” Buildout and Bootstrap.py Theming ZOPE Which leads to………

5. A Pretty Steep Learning Curve/Cliff/Wall

6. What’s In My Quiver When I Started? A Canadian (Kim Nguyen) UW-Oshkosh Development Staff Some Plone experience with OIE Google Professional Plone Development 4 by Martin Aspeli Plone.org Which makes the Score about……

7. Plone 31 and John 0 But the good thing was, I did have a lot of help and the game was just starting.

8. My Initial Job Duties Learn Help Kim implement Intranet Add new ideas Turn forms into products Try not to get in the way Say nice things about Canada

9. How I Learned http://plone.org/ http://zope.org/ http://www.python.org/ http://readthedocs.org/docs/collective- docs/en/latest/ http://readthedocs.org/docs/collective- docs/en/latest/ https://ploud.com/index.html Professional Plone 4 Development by Martin Aspeli

10. More Learning http://www.buildout.org/ http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/SimpleTutorial TAL info http://wiki.zope.org/ZPT/SimpleTutorial http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/ http://www.zodb.org/ http://docs.diazo.org/en/latest/introduction.htm http://plone.org/products/dexterity/documentati on/manual/developer-manual

11. Even More Learning Classes Conferences Stack Overflow Chat Room Sprints User Groups Tune Up Days Polk Library and their ebooks (www.uwosh.edu/library)

12. Remember Though, There is so much documentation out there that getting off track is easy. My experience though is don’t ask a question without trying to figure out the answer on your own first

13. A Quick Note To Help Document Creators Thank you for your input Indexes Reference notes Definition of Terms Don’t assume, write to your audience

14. A Quick Example

15. Drupal’s Learning Page

16. A Quick Note About IDE’s Have a favorite Use it to check in/out code to your repository Sublime Text 2

17. The Time Conflict Card Product

18. Intranet Task Force Says, “Pick a Form.” Study was done to determine possible choices for biggest impact Needed a form that would hit all cross sections of the campus, Instructors/Staff/Students Add/Drop/Time Conflict Card Initiated by Students, signed off by Instructors, entered by Staff, Great Choice!

19. What is a Add/Drop/Time Conflict Card?

20. Meeting With The Registrar What constitutes an approval Sometimes instructors sign off other times departments sign off Legal claims Signing off on class limit and requisites Comments Security One last question….

21. WHAT DID WE GET OURSELVES INTO??!!??!!

22. Decision Time Start with Time Conflict Card Lightly used Design Functionality will be used in both Add and Drop cards Testing could be managed easier Transitions = Approval

23. Design Problems Instructors should only see the cards they need to sign off on Needs to be user friendly interface Comments need to be easily accessible Notification system Can’t let cards sit to long Complicated Workflow

24. Tools PloneFormGen Northstar Workflow Manager Collective.easytemplate JQuery

25. PloneFormGen

26. Making The Form

27. Generating the Product

28. The Product is Generated The product will be downloaded into your download file. It then needs to be moved to your src file

29. Don’t Forget to Install Your Product

30. Here is Your Product

31. Workflow Manager

32. Workflow State

33. Workflow Transition

34. Sanity Check

35. Diagram

36. Create and Manage a Card

37. Start a New Time Conflict Card

38. The Top of the Card

39. The Bottom of the Card

40. Filling The Card Out

41. Filling Out the Card

42. Submitting

43. The Code Jquery Collective.easy.template Content.py View.pt

44. Thank you for listening! John Hren University Wisconsin - Oshkosh hrenj@uwosh.edu