PloneMaintenance

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What is PloneMaintenance ?

PloneMaintenance allows the setting of Maintenance Tasks for a Plone site that are executed regularly using a scheduler.

portal_maintenance

This tool is in the ZMI. Click on the Property tab. You can :
- Add a maintenance script (See Readme.txt for two examples)
- Configure the title, month, day of the week, day of the month, hour and minute of the Task.
- You specify the script to be run

PloneMaintenance has been designed by the Ingeniweb team.

And, of course, it's Open-Source (GPL licence).

 

How does-it work ?

PloneMaintenance is a tool that contains Maintenance Tasks and Scripts to be run regularly.

 

Is it compatible with...
  • CMF ? Yes.
  • Plone 1.0.5 ? Yes.
  • Plone 2.0 ? Yes.
  • My existing Plone instance ? Yes of course. It is just a new tool that is added.

 

Download

PloneMaintenance is shipped as a tarball for Plone. See The Ingeniweb Projects for more information.

Official releases

No official releases yet.

CVS

You can checkout the CVS anonymously with the following commands: 

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ingeniweb login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ingeniweb co PloneMaintenance
You can browse CVS at Sourceforge .

Dependencies

You need to use one of the Schedulers for Zope or a cron job. Otherwise you'll have to run the tasks manually.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why don't you implement a Scheduler as well?
    We want to stay modular and more flexible. Choose the scheduling solution that best fits your needs.

 

Links

Here are some links of interest regarding PloneMaintenance or other assorted tools.