PLIP: Add contentbrowser as a replacement for relateditems

[MrTango]

PLIP (Plone Improvement Proposal)

Responsible Persons

Proposer: Maik Derstappen - MrTango

Seconder: Peter Mathis - petschki

Abstract

Add pat-contentbrowser as a replacement for pat-relateditems and add plone.app.z3cform contentbrowser widget as a replacement for relateditems widget.

Motivation

The pat-relateditems is based on a very old and customized version of Select2 and does not provide a good user experience for selecting content.

Assumptions

Proposal & Implementation

We will introduce a new mockup pattern and a z3c.form widget. The old pattern and widget are still there and will continue to work.

The new pat-contentbrowser will be integrated into TinyMCE's link plugin.

The new ContentBrowserWidget will be used as the default widget for plone.app.relationfield related items behavior. The upload functionality will be enabled by default.

Deliverables

• pat-contentbrowser mockup pattern. This will provide the same features and API as pat-relateditems. There will be added more convenience features (like multiselection) too. (pat-contentbrowser implementation mockup#1377)
• ContentBrowserWidget inside plone.app.z3cform package. API and parameters are the same as RelatedItemsWidget. (Implement ContentBrowserWidget for the new pat-contentbrowser pattern plone.app.z3cform#197)
• New widget will be used in plone.app.relationfield related items behavior. (Implement new ContentBrowserWidget plone.app.relationfield#51)

Risks

Since the old pat-relateditems functionality will be still available, there are no potential risks for addon developers. If you want to use the new pat-contentbrowser you have to update your addon templates/behaviors accordingly.

Participants

Maik Derstappen
Peter Mathis
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