Site Actions

Links, available on every page, to provide specific functionality or information.

Notes:

You can reorder, add, or remove individual site actions

• through the web: Site Setup >Zope Management Interface > portal_actions > site_actions
• in your product: profiles/default/actions.xml

Snippet:

<ul id="portal-siteactions">...</ul>

CSS:

public.css

Name:

plone.site_actions

Type:

viewlet

Use:

Site Setup > Zope Management Interface > portal_view_customizations

Go to:

plone.site_actions

Customizing in your own product

The following details will help you locate the files that you will need to copy into your own product. They will also help you to provide the correct information to create your own zcml directives, Python classes, and interfaces.See viewlet for more information.

Located in:

• [your egg location]/plone/app/layout/viewlets/
• [your egg location]/plone.app.layout-[version].egg/plone/app/layout/viewlets/

Template Name:

site_actions.pt

Class Name:

plone.app.layout.viewlets.common.SiteActionsViewlet

Manager:

plone.portalheader (name) plone.app.layout.viewlets.interfaces.IPortalHeader (interface)

Sample files & directives

Put a version of site_actions.pt in [your theme package]/browser/templates)

Create your own version of the class in [your theme package]/browser/[your module].py

from plone.app.layout.viewlets.common import SiteActionsViewlet
from Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile import ViewPageTemplateFile
class [your class name](SiteActionsViewlet):
    render = ViewPageTemplateFile("[your template name]")

Wire up your viewlet in [your theme package]/browser/configure.zcml

<browser:viewlet
    name="[your namespace].[your viewlet name]"
    manager="plone.app.layout.viewlets.interfaces.IPortalHeader"
    class=".[your module].[your class name]"
    layer=".interfaces.[your theme specific interface]"
    permission="zope2.View"
/>

In [your theme package]/profiles/default/viewlets.xml

Hide the original viewlet (if you wish)

<object>
    <hidden manager="plone.portalheader" skinname="[your skin name]">
        <viewlet name="plone.site_actions" />
    </hidden>

Insert your new viewlet in a viewlet manager

    <order manager="plone.portalheader" skinname="[your skin name]"
           based-on="Plone Default">
        <viewlet name="[your namespace].[your viewlet name]"
                 insert-before="*" />
    </order>
</object>