Session

Adding Custom Control Panels to Your Plone Add-On

Friday,  Mar 26 | 11:00AM - 11:45AM US ET

Level: Beginner

You’ve developed your add-on, and it’s working great. Then, you realize there’s a value that needs changing again and again. Rather than hard-coding these options in, take advantage of Plone’s registry and create your own custom control panel to allow editable options through-the-web.
I’ll walk through the steps of adding a custom control panel to a theme add-on including:
  • Storing custom settings in the registry
  • Creating a form to manage these settings
  • Registering the control panel