easyforms (gsoc'16)

EASYFORM FOR PLONE 5

Prakhar Joshi (GSOC’16)

FORMS IN PLONE

Archetype vs Dexterity

• There is a package called collective.easyform that provides forms for dexterity content type.

• Easyforms have less functionalities than PFG for creating forms in Plone.

Problems with Easyforms

Failing Test cases

ENHANCEMENTS

Mailer working properly

• While I was working on improving test cases for easyform, Steve made the code more readable and more aligned. Like shifting all interface at one place.

• Also there were few functional as well as design flaws that have been noticed during tests improvements.

Design Improvements in package

Actions and fields for easy forms flowing in side bar

Actions and fields under tab.

Migration of forms

Lot of options to proceed with migrations

Out of options we choose to go with control panel option.

The Migration Script

p.a.contenttype ?

What are the other ways ??

• Steve suggested to write migration for separate fields and content types .

• We first started with test cases and then wrote migration for the few fields.

• Migration still needs more efforts to push it live.

Some PFG Fields Migrations

Summary• Improved test cases and make the

package stable.• Improve some designs for the package.• Introduce install/uninstall profile for the

package.• Introduce migration framework for the

package to migrate old forms.

Acknowledgment

• This project was slightly on tougher side as compared to previous one.

• People really supported me during the whole summer specially Steve, Davi, Tom and all the other Developers who showed interest in the project.

• They really helped me a lot and really valued my opinions for different problems and we came out solution.

• This time also I have learnt a lot of stuff but this time I learnt it with more pace and more understanding.

Thank You !!