Archetypes

Archetypes is a subsystem to create content types in Plone 2.x, 3.x and 4.x. Dexterity is replacing it, and is available in 4.1+, becoming the default content type system in Plone 5. Archetypes will remain available through the Plone 5 series.

• Fields and widgets
  • Introduction
  • Getting hold of schema objects
  • Schema introspection
  • Field name
  • Accessing Archetypes field value
  • Validating objects
  • Checking permissions
  • Modifying all fields in schema
  • Reordering fields
  • Hiding widgets
  • Rendering widget
  • Creating your own Field
  • Automatically generating description based on body text
  • Vocabularies
  • Rendering single field
  • Hiding widgets conditionally
  • Dynamic field definitions
• Field storages
  • AttributeStorage
  • AnnotationStorage
  • SQLStorage
  • FSSStorage
• Archetypes ReferenceFields
  • Introduction
• Customizing editing interface
  • Remove metadata tabs
• DataGridField
  • Basics
  • CheckboxColumn
  • Other resources
• Validators
  • Introduction
  • List of default validators
  • Creating a validator
• Files
  • Download URL for files for ATFile content
  • Checking whether a File field has uploaded content
  • Setting max file size to FileField and ImageField
• Converting one Content Type into another
  • Converting Pages into News Items
  • Converting Images into News Items
• Templates
  • Introduction
  • The template loading mechanism
• References
  • Introduction
  • Using references