Chapter 15

Quickies

• Archiving
  I've set the Folder Section view to show 30 most recent items only (10 with pictures). This doesn't actually archive anything; you can see everything by clicking the Contents tab. For a real archiving solution, we'll need to look at your requirements: keep content online and searchable? Keep only the title/descriptions and move images/body text to offline, etc.?
• Introduction gradient bar: now matches navbar
• AV University featured section articles not showing up.  They're showing up for me. Sub-sections need to be in the "Published" state in order to appear on the menu.
  
• Disconnect "Description" text
  I've removed the description from the view templates for Editorials and Press Releases.
• Page lnks at bottom of AV University articles
  The links for page 2, etc are wrapping funny (thin). Here is a page example. The image at the bottom was set to "float right", when you probably wanted "inline".  I've modified the template to put a visual-clear under the page-one text, so you shouldn't have to manually make the last image in every article be "inline".
• Blog System.  Seems incompatible with newer Plone. I've put in a patch that should make it work again. But you'll need to re-add a Weblog to your folder.  Head over your your folder, click the Contents tab, check the box next to the old Weblog object (if any) and hit Delete. You can then re-add a fresh Weblog. (And please tell me that you've not made any blog entries yet.  Please!)
• Multi-page Editorials and Tech Articles
  These probably shouldn't have "Introduction" as the label of the first page. OK, for Product Reviews only it will appear as "Introduction" but for the other types it appears as the title of the container object. Whew!
• You can navagate through pages 2+ at the bottom of the page for Editorials, etc, but you need to use the drop down to get to page 1. This is the same with the reviews. With the reviews I can understand, but with the editorials we probabaly need to add an easier way to get to the main page if possible. See above.  The navigation bar as well as the drop-down menu now both make it simpler to get around.
• Forum integration. Yeah, we can do this. Can you tell me (1) the SQL tables that describe the available forums (is that "fora"?) and (2) the appropriate URL get/post parameters to create a new thread? 
  
  

Pagination

On this review, the pages were rearranged in the Content section to get them in the right order. Unfortunately, the <Prev> and <Next> buttons are apparently hard-coded to pull the pages up in the original order.

I'm just not seeing it.  Here's a screen-shot of the contents of that review:

Now, when I go to the "Testing System & Listening Environment" page, the "Next" link should be to DMC-1 First Impressions.

And clicking the link takes me to a page with this title:

The bottom of this page has "Prev" and "Next" links that look correct to me:

and following them seem to navigate correctly. In fact, I can't find any instance where this isn't the case.  Was Tom perhaps drunk?  High?  Both?  (Kidding!)

Many reviews have sub-pages as "page-1", "page-2", etc. Is there a way to run a one-time script to name the pages according to their title?

Run.  You can re-run it any time by visiting /fix-subpages.

Ownership

For some reason the script you made (/ahreset) still doesn't copy the creators of a main page to the subsequent internal pages.

I've fixed the script and re-run it.

When using multiple creators it only shows the first one.

It now shows all of them.

Can there be support for "shortcut" name recognition on "Contributors".

Yes. Contributors now get the names expanded and hyperlinks to their author pages.

Trade Show Coverage

TBD.

PDFs

• Can we have PDFs open up in a new window? Done.
• While the specs table is 50%/50% on the reviews, it is not in the PDFs.  Sadly, can't do much about that, not until a newer version of the pdf generator comes out.
• Images do not appear to "hold" their alignment.  Again, this is limitation of the pdf generator.  (In many ways, the print via browser looks a lot nicer.)
• Pull quotes appear as "blockquote" text instead of the cool way you have it on the website.  And again: the pdf generator accepts HTML and smattering of CSS, but otherwise does not support CSS as well as Firefox, Safari, or even IE. All of the styling on the beta site is 100% CSS (or had better be), so that people with low vision and motor dificulties can still maneuver and enjoy the content.
  
• Scorecard rating scale (the part that is fixed) must have a weird character that gets translated funny to PDF. If we could replace it on the site we'll probably be fine.  I bet it's the em-dash.  I've replaced it with a hyphen.  Yeah, looks better.

This is your decision of course, but there are several benefits to the print via browser icon that appears for premium users: it looks a lot better than the PDF generator, uses the browser's own CSS engine, and we can tag which elements should be rendered or not in the print version. The benefit of the PDF generator is that you get a PDF (but Mac users can make a PDF anyway since the OS has built into the "print" dialog box a "save as PDF" function). You want to keep both and hope the pdf generator gets smarter in the future, or do you want to scrap the pdf generator for now and leave just the print-page icon?

Review Conclusion Criteria

(Work in progress).  I've added the Media & Music Centers category and renamed Media Players to DVD/HD Players. The insertion of new criteria in the other categories will require a bit more work (mostly because I took copious shortcuts to get them in there in the first place, my bad), but it will happen tomorrow.