• first, you have to post a request on myplone.objectis.org ;
• your demand can be for one or several websites, depending on your project / needs ;
• once published, your request will be opened to votes and comments, from the Plone community and the Pilot Systems team;
• if your demand is accepted, you'll received a free validation code. Use this code in the subscription form to get a brand new Plone 2.5 website !

If you use a spam filter, please add the following adresses: postmaster@objectis.org, webmaster@objectis.org and objectis@objectis.org to your whitelist.

Important emails can be sent to your mail address, and we will not manually handle rejects due to spam filters.

When installing a product (i.e. CMFBoard, but it is not the only one), Plone may raise an InvalidObjectReference error.

Technical explanations might be found at google://InvalidObjectReference.

To be more pragmatic, we would say that this bug "disappear" when restarting the Zope instance. Hence, if you encounter this problem, tell us (in the tracker or in the forum) the name of your account and the products you failed to install and we will install it for you.

The URL for WebDAV access to sites is:

You can log in with any Zope account on your site that has role Manager or permissions for access through WebDAV.

Windows and WebDAV

A Webdav client for windows called NetDrive exist, you can download NetDrive here.

Installation : launch ndrv41862.exe from MS-DOS (cmd.exe). Click on ndint.exe to install Netdrive.

Configuration :

1. Click on New Site;
2. give a name for this site;
3. URL : http://site-name.objectis.net:81/;
4. Server type : WebDav;
5. Drive : choose a letter;
6. Deactivate Login anonymous/public;
7. Enter your Objectis login and password;
8. Click on Connect, you can now see a new drive inside windows explorer.

MacOS X supports WebDAV natively

1. Click on your Finder icon
2. Press Command-K on the keyboard
3. Enter your WebDAV URL: http://site-name.objectis.net:81/ and click "Connect"
4. Enter your username and password
5. Click OK and voilà, you are connected. You can then navigate your site like a folder, and copy files to and from it.

KDE Konqueror supports WebDAV natively

1. Open a new Konqueror window
2. In the location bar, enter your WebDAV URL with the user name: webdav://username@site-name.objectis.net:81/
3. Enter your password when prompted
4. Click OK and voilà, you are connected. You can then navigate your site like a folder, and copy files to and from it. You can additionally bookmark your folder to come back to it later.

Gnome Nautilus supports WebDAV natively

This only works with Gnome 2.0 and above.

1. Open a new Nautilus window (go to "Applications" then "Home Folder")
2. In the location bar, enter your WebDAV URL with the user name: http://username@site-name.objectis.net:81/
3. Click OK and voilà, you are connected. You can then navigate your site like a folder, and copy files to and from it.

Access with other WebDAV clients

• For MacOS Classic: Goliath
• Unix in the command line: Cadaver
• Other WebDAV client projects

See also

The WebDAV FAQ on the WebDAV.org web site.

Short answer: not yet.

Long answer:

In order to allow the use of www.mydomain.com to access mysite.objectis.net, two steps are necessary:

1. The name www.mydomain.com must be configured to resolve (DNS) to the IP address of the Objectis web server.
2. A Virtual Host configuration must be set in the Objectis web server for the domain www.mydomain.com, so that requests made to www.mydomain.com through Objectis are served using the site at mysite.objectis.net.

While step 1 can be accomplished by the owner of the domain www.mydomain.com, step 2 should be done by the Objectis administrator.

Unfortunately, for now there is no automatic procedure for configuring virtual hosts for personal domains. Moreover, the Objectis team is not ready to support the charge of managing a manual configuration.

Work is in progress to provide this service in a future Objectis major upgrade.

You just have to fill the account deletion form

You just have to browse this kind of url "http://mysite.objectis.net/manage_emergency" and give your login name and your password.

You can use the export / import button in ZMI

1. Go to ZMI at the root of your site (http://mysite.objectis.net/manage).
2. Click on "import / export" button.
3. Don't give an id to your file, just click on "export" button.
4. You will download your site in only one .zexp file. With this file you will be able to import your site on another zope instance.

Whether your account is a Zope or a Plone one, you can always access the ZMI by adding "/manage" to the root of your account, as in "http://account.objectis.net/manage". If you are not already logged in as a Manager, you will be asked to log in.

Go to the ZMI, and add a new "Page Template" object, with the code below :

<ul>
  <li>
    <strong>Space used:</strong>
    <span tal:replace="container/current_size" /> bytes
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Total space allowed:</strong>
    <span tal:replace="container/quota_bytes" /> bytes
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Number of objects:</strong>
    <span tal:replace="container/current_count" />
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Max number of objects:</strong>
    <span tal:replace="container/quota_objects" />
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Object max size:</strong>
    <span tal:replace="container/quota_maxsize" />
  </li>
</ul>

You can connect to your site by WebDAV on the port 81 of your site: http://site.objectis.net:81.

The link to the login_form is used by the content managers of the objectis.org web site. Your login is used on the following URL : http://your_site.objectis.net. Remember that the .org is the site where you gather information and support, while the .net is used for Zope and Plone accounts.

Internet Explorer

The best method is to download Microsoft's free language packs and input methods for Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Installing these language packs will automatically set up Internet Explorer for Chinese.

Netscape

From main menu, select "Edit", then "Preferences". In the window that appears, select "Appearance" and "Fonts". First select "Simplified Chinese" for the encoding, and choose "MS Song" or "MS Hei" for the proportional and fixed length fonts. For the "Traditional Chinese Encoding", select "MingLiU" as the font. Selecting a larger font size might also be easier on your eyes.

Only Objectis content managers can create the news on objectis.org web site.

You can access the products control panel by clicking on 'manage plone' in the personal bar and the clicking on 'Add/Remove products'.
There no such control panel in CPS, you have to go in http://yourid.objectis.net/portal_quickinstaller/manage

Be warned: some products deinstallation can cause errors with this tool:

• PloneExtendedSiteMap
• CMFSin

If you have such problem, don't logout and go on http://yourid.objectis.net/portal_quickinstaller/manage

For security reasons, ZGadfly product has been removed. It is not possible, with ZGadfly, to protect users data.

here is a big quantity of Zope products. We do not know them all. If you think that a product may be really useful on Objectis, please check out the following points:

• is this product stable?
• is this product maintained?
• is this product compatible with the Zope and Python versions used on Objectis?
• is this product really necessary?

If you answered "yes" four times, then a developped argued message in the forum may convince the despotic managers of the service ;)

This product caused many problems (security and ZODB integrity) on objectis service and has been removed.

We're not going to explain here how it works. You will find all informations on plone.org web site.

Plone 2 is using PlacelessTranslationService to translate automatically your site in your browser prefered language. So you don't have to do anything, it will work alone.

Plone 2 users

• Login to your plone site as a manager,
• go to "plone setup" and "add / remove products",
• select all products you need and click on "install" button,

Plone 1 users

• Login to your Plone as a manager (/manage)
• Select in the add dropbox menu on the right the CMFQuickInstallerTool
• Now you got at the root of your Plone an object called portal_quickinstaller
• Click on it and just select the product you want to install in a click!
• CMFCalendar product is already installed on your plone site, contrary to "portal_quickinstaller" show.