Introduction

Archetypes 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.
• Full automatic form generation
• Unique Ids for objects
• Object References/Relationships
• Per Type cataloging in one or more catalogs

Unit testing

• Go into the root of your buildout and run:

  bin/test Products.Archetypes
  

Documentation

Major resource for documentation is located at plone.org.

Changelog

1.16.6 (2021-10-07)

Bug fixes:

• Prevent installation on Python 3, as we know Archetypes does not work there. [maurits] (#3330)

1.16.5 (2021-07-28)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed incompatibility with zope.component 5. zope.component.interfaces has long been a backwards compatibility import for zope.interface.interfaces, but not anymore. [maurits] (#462)

1.16.4 (2021-01-08)

Bug fixes:

• Lifted the ceiling for the maximum date from end of 2020 to 2051 in all places. See issue 133. [maurits] (#133)

1.16.3 (2020-10-30)

Bug fixes:

• Lifted the ceiling for the maximum date from end of 2020 to 2051. See issue 133. (#133)

1.16.2 (2020-04-20)

Bug fixes:

• Use manage_FTPget instead of manage_DAVget in marshall tests. Adds compatibility with Zope 4.3. [maurits] (#644)

1.16.1 (2019-05-06)

Bug fixes:

• Problem: refactoring plone.app.widgets is not easy with too detailed expectations on the output of the pattern_options. Its also outside the scope of this test. Solution: check if there are pattern_options, but now what they are exactly. [jensens] (#124)
• Fixed slowness in unicodeTestIn script used by keyword template. [maurits] (#125)
• Fixed changelog for releases 1.15.5, 1.15.6 and 1.16.0. [maurits] (#130)
• Fixed UnicodeEncodeError when editing Archetypes rich text. [maurits] (#2832)

1.16.0 (2018-12-10)

New features:

• Included __repr__ changes from 1.15.5 again. This change is only good for Plone 5.2. See also

Bug fixes:

• Fix packaging issues for Plone 5.2. [esteele]

1.15.6 (2018-12-10)

Bug fixes:

• Reverted __repr__ changes from 1.15.5. That is only good for Plone 5.2. The 1.16.0 release will contain that change.

1.15.5 (2018-11-04)

New features:

• Move generateUniqueId script from CMFPlone here. It has no use outside Archetypes world. (#114)
• Removed travis config. Jenkins is used instead. (#116)

Bug fixes:

• Fix testlayer mess. [petschki] (#113)
• Use new utils.check_id from CMFPlone. [maurits] (#118)
• Add PathReprProvider as a baseclass of BaseContentMixin to restore the original __repr__ behavior instead of the new __repr__ from persistent.Persistent. See issue 2590. [pbauer] (#212)

1.15.4 (2018-09-30)

Bug fixes:

• Switch to new TestCase using AT after PloneTestcase is now DX. Fall back to the old TestCase in case of an older plone.app.testing. [pbauer, maurits]

1.15.3 (2018-06-18)

New features:

• Test against Plone 5.2 [icemac]

Bug fixes:

• Fix Travis CI setup. [loechel]

1.15.2 (2018-05-03)

Bug fixes:

• Make sure the 'at_ordered_refs' dict changes are persisted when setting references by manually setting '_p_changed=1'. [gbastien]

1.15.1 (2018-04-04)

Bug fixes:

• Use the edit accessor to get text for TinyMCEWidget. [davisagli]
• Fixed html errors in documentation found with latest version of i18ndude. [vincentfretin]

1.15 (2018-02-05)

New features:

• Removed CMFQuickInstaller dependency. This was only used in ancient migration code. [maurits]

Bug fixes:

• Fix test failures from [thet]

1.14.3 (2017-11-24)

Bug fixes:

• Test fixes for changes in plone.app.widgets querystring options. [thet]
• Remove redefinition of builtin 'set' in a macro. [pbauer]

1.14.2 (2017-08-27)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed textcount.js support jquery>1.6. [vkarppinen]

• Fixed a bug (that it was possible to enter text length over maxlimit) by replacing maxlimit alert() with highlighting textcountfield. [vkarppinen]

• Prevent AttributeError on deleting a Reference from a object that is gone. Fixes

  [pbauer]

• Remove Plone requirement on the testing extras. [gforcada]

1.14.1 (2017-06-16)

Bug fixes:

• Fix related items widget tests to reflect latest plone.app.widgets changes. Refs: [thet]
• Fix bugs with Widget's postback attribute, that prevented fields from being populated with the submitted empty value in the case of an error. [pgrunewald]

1.14.0 (2017-04-01)

Breaking changes:

• Update code to the new indexing operations queueing. Part of PLIP 1343: [gforcada]

1.13.0 (2017-02-12)

New features:

• manage_reindexIndex requires index names (Zope4). [tschorr]
• Remove Products.PlacelessTranslationService as dependency b/c it is not used in Archetypes. [jensens]

Bug fixes:

• Fix tests to work with HTTP1.0 as well as HTTP1.1 answers. [gogobd]
• Fix tests to work with latest plone.app.widgets 2.1. [thet]
• Default display value of a Vocabulary i18n-message must be unicode, enforce. Needed to work with latest zope.i18nmessageid 4.0.3 release (and later). [jensens]
• fix randomly failing test in test_referenceable. [jensens]
• Don't instantiate browser view to check for existence. [malthe]

1.12 (2016-12-06)

New features:

• Moved selection widget translation tests from CMFPlone to Archetypes. [maurits]

• OFS.HistoryAware was dropped in Zope 4. Make AnnotationStorage awareness of it optional. [jensens]

• Moved scripts that are only used by Archetypes from CMFPlone to Products.Archetypes:

  • date_components_support.py

  - show_id.py [jensens, davisagli]

Bug fixes:

• More flexible test of getBestIcon. [jensens]

1.11.3 (2016-10-03)

Bug fixes:

• Don't use document/folder_icon.gif in the test profile. Use png instead. [maurits]
• no allowable_content_types for description (avoid validation) [tschorr]

1.11.2 (2016-09-14)

Bug fixes:

• Enable unload protection by using pattern class pat-formunloadalert instead enableUnloadProtection. [thet]

1.11.1 (2016-08-18)

Bug fixes:

• DateWidget, DatetimeWidget now able to clear previous values. [seanupton]
• Use zope.interface decorator. [gforcada]

1.11.0 (2016-05-15)

New:

• Added uninstall profile. Most importantly this removes the archetype_tool, reference_catalog, and uid_catalog. Needs Products.GenericSetup 1.8.3. [maurits]
• Removed error_log from toolset.xml, because this is already in the toolset of Products.CMFPlone. [maurits]

Fixes:

• No longer try to mock plone.app.widgets in tests. [maurits]
• Removed docstrings from some methods to avoid publishing them. From Products.PloneHotfix20160419. [maurits]

1.10.13 (2016-02-25)

Fixes:

• Replace deprecated zope.site.hooks import with zope.component.hooks. [thet]
• Fix tinymce pattern-options merging to be compatible with change in p.a.widgets and p.a.z3cform. [alecm]

1.10.12 (2016-02-15)

Fixes:

• Replace zope.tal.ndiff with difflib.ndiff. It was removed in zope.tal 4.0.0. [pbauer]

1.10.11 (2015-10-27)

Fixes:

• White space only pep8 cleanup. Not in the skins. [maurits]
• Removed code for unused types_link_to_folder_contents and use_folder_tabs. [maurits]

1.10.10 (2015-09-20)

• Pull types_link_to_folder_contents values from the configuration registry. [esteele]
• Set calendar_starting_year and calendar_future_years_available in registry. See [pbauer]

1.10.9 (2015-09-08)

• Defend defaultRights method against broken portal_metadata. Its schemas are instances of CMFDefault classes, which normally are no longer available in Plone 5. The relevant code has been duplicated in ATContentTypes. [maurits]
• Compare picklist entry value, not text. [paulrentschler]

1.10.8 (2015-07-18)

• Moved createObject from ATContentTypes. [tomgross]

1.10.7 (2015-05-13)

• Remove dependency on CMFDefault [tomgross]
• We only support utf-8 at the moment. [tomgross]

1.10.6 (2015-03-26)

• Merge PLIP 13091. [bloodbare]
• Replace deprecated JavaScript functions with their jQuery equivalents. [thet]

1.10.5 (2015-03-13)

• Move tests to plone.app.testing. [tomgross, timo]
• Integrate plone.app.widgets. [vangheem]
• Fix MimeTypesRegistry test import. [thet]
• For Plone 5, support getting markup control panel settings from the registry, while still supporting normal portal_properties access for Plone < 5. [thet]

1.10.2 (2014-10-23)

• Correctly determine default value for boolean widget. fixes . [dibell]
• make textCounter work in Plone 4.3 because 'jquery-integration.js' was disabled and remove jq calls. see [sverbois]
• removed encoding from javascript tag to make w3c validator happy, see [felipeduardo]
• utils.py set default encoding to utf-8 for unicode string in the transaction note. [jakke]
• Ported tests to plone.app.testing [tomgross]
• Frosted cleanups and some obsolete code removal (ApeSupport) [tomgross]

1.10.1 (2014-04-13)

• waking instances is cheaper than processing a potentially huge vocabulary for getting the title, therefore we handle reference fields seperately [zwork, agitator]
• Remove DL's from portal message templates. [khink]

1.10.0 (2014-03-01)

• Set logging level to DEBUG for warnings regarding new fields initialized on an existing object. INFO level can seriously spam the logs of a busy portal. [olimpiurob]
• Ported fix for #13833 from the 1.9.x branch for reindexObjectSecurity triggering an error when attempting to change the workflow of an object and it has deleted children [ichim-david]
• Do not use portal_interface tool but @@plone_interface_info (PLIP #13770). [ale-rt]
• Internationalized file size and content type on file and image widgets. (needs Plone>=4.3.3) [thomasdesvenain]
• Make sure @@at_utils.translate method always returns a string (empty or not) even when the passed value is an empty tuple (before, the returned value was an empty tuple or a non empty string). [gbastien]
• Do not add warning about new field initialized on an existing object in the transaction description, show this as a Zope log info message. [gbastien]
• Move calendar_macros, jscalendar, and date_components_support here from CMFPlone and plone.app.form. [bloodbare, davisagli]
• Replace deprecated test assert statements. [timo]
• Vocabulary method was not working with vocabulary_factory and int values (IntDisplayList is required) [keul]
• Remove code and tests for the old discussion infrastructure (pre plone.app.discussion). The discussion tool will be deprecated in Plone 5. [timo]
• Fix nesting-error in InAndOutWidget. This fixes [pbauer]
• Return original error during validation when a field already has an error. This avoids TypeError: 'bool' object has no attribute '__getitem__' in Products.CMFFormController.ControllerState. [maurits]
• Various vocabulary fixes, mostly for translations and IntDisplayLists. [maurits]
• Make (non-valued) default value selected in select widget if no selection is given. This happens especially with ReferenceFields. [thepjot]