FacultyStaffDirectory 2.0 alpha released

The long-awaited first alpha release of FacultyStaffDirectory is out! Among the new baubles are Plone 3 compatibility, integration with users and groups, and a new extensibility framework.

An initial alpha release of FacultyStaffDirectory, WebLion's product for creating personnel directories in Plone, is now available. Major attractions are...

• Integration with Plone users and groups

  Persons act as users; you can (optionally) log in as them, and people by default have the right to edit their own directory entries. Also, Committees, Departments, Specialties, and other directory groupings act as groups.

• A new extensibility framework

  We replaced our b-org-adapted extensibilty scheme with Archetypes' schemaextender mechanism. This means more than one extender can be active at a time. In addition, all content types can now be extended, not just Person.

• Plone 3 compatibility,

  including support for versioning

Other changes include speed increases, better Smart Folder support, bug fixes, and lots of under-the-hood improvements. See the Version History section of the readme for details.

We invite you to try this preview release in non-production environments and report bugs. If all goes well, a final 2.0 release will follow by the end of the month.

By Erik Rose on Friday, December 14, 2007

In Plone | WebLion

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