Archetypes

  Archetypes (formerly known as CMFTypes) is a developers framework
  for rapidly developing and deploying rich, full featured content
  types within the context of Zope/CMF and Plone.

  Archetypes is based around the idea of an _Active Schema_. Rather
  than provide a simple description of a new data type, Archetype
  schemas do the actual work and heavy lifting involved in using
  the new type. Archetype Schemas serve as easy extension points
  for other developers as project specific components can be
  created and bound or you can choose among the rich existing set
  of features.

Features

  * Simple schemas with working default policy.

  * Power and flexibility with lowered incidental complexity.

  * Integration with rich content sources such as Office Product Suites.

  * Full automatic form generation

  * Unique Ids for objects

  * Object References/Relationships

  * Per Type cataloging in one or more catalogs

Requires

  * Plone 2.0+

  * CMF 1.4+

  * Zope 2.7.0+

  * CMFFormController (from collective CVS)

  From the SourceForge Archetypes CVS, you must also install the
  following products to your Zope Products directory.

  * PortalTransforms

  * generator

  * validation

  * MimetypesRegistry

  * docutils > 0.3.3 (see notes)

  **Note:** Installing generator and validation as Python packages is no
  longer supported by Archetypes. If they are installed as Python packages,
  they will be silently ignored.

  Note to docutils: You have to install a new version of docutils for Zope 2.7.0!
  Zope 2.7.1+ will be shipped with docutils 0.3.3. You can download docutils at
  http://docutils.sf.net/. Either you have to remove
  ZOPE_HOME/lib/python/docutils after installing docutils or you have to replace
  Zope's version by docutils 0.3.3+.

Quickstart

  1. Use the quickinstaller_tool and install archetypes

  Or, in an existing Plone site:

  1. Edit config.py and change INSTALL_DEMO_TYPES to 1

  2. restart server

  3. Create an external method, module Archetypes.Install, function: install

  4. Run it

Documentation

  See the docs directory.
