Templates

Description

Overriding templates with Archetypes

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• Templates
  • Introduction
  • The template loading mechanism

Introduction

This document will tell how to create custom templates for Plone and Archetypes based content.

This does not deal with

• browser views
• generic old style template overrides

The template loading mechanism

Archetypes tries to look up a template with name

• Content type name lowercased + _view.pt
• Content type name lowercased + _edit.cpt

from portal_skins.

Example controlled page template (cpt) file yourcontenttype.cpt:

Check More info links

For cpt files (controlled page template) you'll also need corresponding .metadata file:

[default]
title = Edit Your Content Type

[validators]
validators = validate_atct
validators..form_add =
validators..cancel =

[actions]
action.success = traverse_to:string:content_edit
action.success..cancel = redirect_to:python:object.REQUEST['last_referer']
action.success_add_reference = redirect_to:python:object.REQUEST['last_referer']
action.failure = traverse_to_action:string:edit
action.next_schemata = traverse_to_action:string:edit

More info

• http://plone.org/documentation/manual/theme-reference/buildingblocks/skin/templates/how-to-customise-view-or-edit-on-archetypes-content-items