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Blog

Available to anyone.  Options: Quills, simpleBlog

Event registration

Several departments want an event registration tool.

Bulletin Board

Social interaction tools. Options:

fcForum
100% XHTML, 100% CSS 2.0 Compatible, best-viewed- with-any-browser, pleasant to the eye, skinnable, Administrative-tools rich, piece of code with many other bells & whistles and Fully Documented.

PloneBoard
Ploneboard is an easy to use web board. It utilizes the proven Plone user interface, and is made for easy integration into Plone sites. The target audience is businesses and developers wanting a discussion board in their Plone site.

zforum
 zForum is a feature-rich message board system, XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0 standards compliant for the Zope 2 platform with a clean, eay to use user interface, the front-end (UI) done entirely in Zope Page Templates, secured with a SQL back-end (MySQL and Postgres Supported). All SQL method are protected and only accessible through the zForum API, all the core back-end is done in the python engine (class), providing full separation between logic and presentation.

Just released version 1.0.14 of zforum, many bugfixes but the most important one is the Plone 2.5 support option, an updated plone integration guide is supplied with the product and a test plone site is now available.

WYSWIG Editor Improvements

• ability to add horizontal rule using Kupu
  
• Lots of improvements needed for the Kupu editor.  Or, find alternatives. options:
  * http://tinymce.moxiecode.com
  * http://www.fckeditor.net/
  

Forms handling

A way so forms can post to a database so the data can be exported to a text or excel file.
options: http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen
Extend PloneFormMailer to drop data to the db

Survey Tools

We've had several requests for survey tools.

Options:
opinio: http://www.objectplanet.com/opinio/
institutions using opinio: Loyola University Chichago, Texas A&M Health Science Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research, The University of Nebraska, University of New Mexico, University of California, Marquette, University of Minnesota

PloneSurvey: http://plone.org/products/plone-survey
institutions using plone survey: UK Defence Academy,

Better calendar application

Quantify search terms

a way to know what serch terms are being used on a per-site basis
???Web logs???

Ability to include rss / news feeds

pull in XML feeds as a portlet.
Need to be able to set the update cache/threshold.

Site Map

The suggestion was made at a meeting that a "Site Map" folder would be a good idea. 

recent changes

recently_modified shows all changes to all sites. It should show only recent modifications in the department's site ($subsite/path).

per-folder-based Portlet control

Want to be able to control/override display of any portlet on a per-folder basis.

Image gallery view

Making the photoalbum modeled some what after the facebook model, in so much as that if you click on a photo, you can click it again to see the next photo in the series and click that photo to see the next. This makes a faster viewing of photos and easier use. 

One option is to include a flash-based image gallery

Other Features to consider

* Spellchecking

* Polls
* For authenticated users, add a "GET HELP" link that links to a knowledgebase in a new window
* easy way to include a Flash content in a page
* Process to include a media in a page.

CSS tweaks

the indent button <blockquote> should not reformat the color and not add that crazy || bar thing before the paragraph.

PHP inclusion?

* http://www.zope.org/Members/hewei/PHParser Can we embed PHP code inside a plone?

Sharing option

A way to upload a batch of userIDs to apply sharing options. (As an example, this functionality would facilitate adding sharing permissions to a class.)

Feedback
Either on a per-page or per-site basis. Sends a note to the site manager (and web team?)  Maybe a site-wide feedback/suggestion survey similar to what Intel does on intel.com