Press Room

    Press Room is a simple add-on product which can be used to easily manage an online
    Press Room within your Plone site.  It adds 4 new content types to your Plone site 
    including a Press Release, a Press Clip (i.e. an outside news piece), and a Press Contact
    (someone who might be available to speak to the press.)
    
    It also provides a Press Room, a folderish content type with a nice default view
    and some automatically created folders and Collections (aka Smart Folders) to help
    you organize and present your press materials.
    
    Some press rooms we observed in making this product are found at microsoft.com, intel.com,
    nrdc.org, sierraclub.org, and google.com.  Our goal was to make something suitable for many
    kinds of organizations, including nonprofits, businesses, educational institutions, and more.

Current Status of Press Room

    The 3.0 line of PressRoom is tested with Plone 2.5.5 and Plone 3.1.7. We assume it will work for most
    Plone 2.5.x and 3.x releases.  If you have a Plone 2.1 site, please see the PressRoom 1.1 line.  
    
    Note: we opted to skip a 2.0 line in order to sync up with the Plone version number that Press Room 
    supports. Hence the 3.x line works with Plone 3.x (and 2.5) and 4 will be intended to work with Plone 
    4 (and 3.x).  We are committed to supporting the two most current Plone releases at a time.
    
    * Known bugs and issues are listed at http://plone.org/products/pressroom/issues
    
    * Suggestions welcome!  (Code even more welcome!)
      http://plone.org/products/pressroom/roadmap

Installation

    Install in the usual way, by:

   * Uncompressing Press Room in your Zope instances "Products" directory

   * Browse to your plone site --> site setup --> add/remove products

   * Click install (or you can use the QuickInstaller tool in the Zope Management Interface)

Usage

    We recommend creating a Press Room object in the root of your site.
    Then begin creating Press Releases, Press Clips and Press Contacts in your
    Press Room.  
     
    The "Add Press (item)" links in the Press Room will shortcut you to subfolders
    intended to store these items.  Only items stored in their appropriate subfolder
    will be shown in the Press Room view.
     
    You may create Press Releases, Clips and Contacts elsewhere in your site, but these
    will not be shown in the Press Room view.
     
    You might find it useful to suppress the ability to add normal News Items if Press Room
    replaces that need.  You can do that by going into the portal_types tool in the ZMI and
    unchecking "implicitly addable" for News Items.
    
    Note that in Plone 3.0, the infrastructure supporting each Press Room by default is created
    as "private".  The Press Room provides a button to publish all of these.  That button will
    NOT publish any actual Releases, Clips or Contacts -- just the folders that contain them and
    the Collections that aggregate them.

Upgrading Folders
    As of Press Room 3.2, the containers for Press Clips and Press Releases are Large Plone Folders. Before
    3.2, Press Room used normal folders, which become inefficient when containing more than about a hundred
    items.  To upgrade an older Press Room, navigate to the Press Room and append "/@@upgrade-folders" to the
    url. A message will return with the results of the upgrade. Note that your Press Room subfolders must retain
    their original ids ('press-clips' and 'press-releases') in order to be upgraded.
    
    Note also that, by default, Large Plone Folders are not normally addable in a Plone site. To allow the creation
    of the two used in a new Press Room, we briefly enable them (if they weren't already) and after adding them, we
    disable them again. That means that attempts to rename them will cause a cryptic error about disallowed types.
    To get around that, simply navigate to portal_types in the ZMI, click into Large Plone Folders, and check the
    "Implicitly addable" checkbox.
    
Authors

    See CREDITS.TXT


