Comments on: Squall: Perfect Plone blogging with Scrawl + Quills http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/ Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-404503 Jon Stahl Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:19:13 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-404503 <p>Rebeca, sorry to hear you had problems... this article is now pretty old... for example, Plone's core discussion system has now been totally overhauled, rendering qPloneComments unnecessary for most purposes.</p> <p>I've just installed Products.QuillsEnabled 1.8a1 and Products.Scrawl 2.0b1 (the latest releases available) on Plone 4.1.2 and they seem to work just fine for me.</p> <p>I do note that Quills' "Recent Comments" portlet breaks, probably because it is not yet aware of Plone's new comment system. However, you could easily disable that portlet and replace it with a Collection portlet to find recent comments.</p> <p>If you or anyone is having difficulties with anything related to Plone, please come join us either in the #plone IRC channel or on the Plone-users/general support email list at http;//plone.org/support. I can't really provide support via blog comment threads. :-)</p> Rebeca, sorry to hear you had problems… this article is now pretty old… for example, Plone’s core discussion system has now been totally overhauled, rendering qPloneComments unnecessary for most purposes.

I’ve just installed Products.QuillsEnabled 1.8a1 and Products.Scrawl 2.0b1 (the latest releases available) on Plone 4.1.2 and they seem to work just fine for me.

I do note that Quills’ “Recent Comments” portlet breaks, probably because it is not yet aware of Plone’s new comment system. However, you could easily disable that portlet and replace it with a Collection portlet to find recent comments.

If you or anyone is having difficulties with anything related to Plone, please come join us either in the #plone IRC channel or on the Plone-users/general support email list at http;//plone.org/support. I can’t really provide support via blog comment threads. :-)

]]> By: Rebeca http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-404497 Rebeca Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:56:08 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-404497 <p>I installed qPloneComments, QuillsEnabled, and Scrawl - all the most current versions - on a clean instance of Plone, and still came up with the same anonymous author error. Someone from the QuintaGroup responded to me as well, saying they came up with the same problem and that "QuillsEnabled overrides some discussion functionality. It has to be customized to work as expected.</p> I installed qPloneComments, QuillsEnabled, and Scrawl – all the most current versions – on a clean instance of Plone, and still came up with the same anonymous author error. Someone from the QuintaGroup responded to me as well, saying they came up with the same problem and that “QuillsEnabled overrides some discussion functionality. It has to be customized to work as expected.

]]> By: Tom Hoen http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-394298 Tom Hoen Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:52 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-394298 <p>I have followed the instructions to have Quills and Scrawl added to the site. Thank you for your excellent write-up.</p> <p>I wondered if you might answer a couple quick questions?</p> <p>After creating a blog entry by clicking on the Add Entry link above the Manage Comments link on the right side of the page, no items are listed in the recent entries, tag cloud, archive, etc. It does show up on the Contents area (one of the default portlets for the site). The page says "No weblog entries have been posted"</p> <p>I had set the Default type to "Blog Entry". Is this correct?</p> <p>Also, for the entry (which I can get to by looking at the folders contents), when I post a comment, I get an error stating "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'"</p> <p>I am really excited to begin allowing my users to post blogs, I just need to work out these last kinks.</p> <p>Best Tom</p> I have followed the instructions to have Quills and Scrawl added to the site. Thank you for your excellent write-up.

I wondered if you might answer a couple quick questions?

After creating a blog entry by clicking on the Add Entry link above the Manage Comments link on the right side of the page, no items are listed in the recent entries, tag cloud, archive, etc. It does show up on the Contents area (one of the default portlets for the site). The page says “No weblog entries have been posted”

I had set the Default type to “Blog Entry”. Is this correct?

Also, for the entry (which I can get to by looking at the folders contents), when I post a comment, I get an error stating “‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘strftime’”

I am really excited to begin allowing my users to post blogs, I just need to work out these last kinks.

Best
Tom

]]> By: Ian F. Hood http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-394123 Ian F. Hood Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:42:18 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-394123 <p>Trying this today with QE 1.70c3 and scrawl 1.3.1 and having problems with date values (less than 1900) causing portlet errors and/or blog folder won't render.</p> <p>What versions are you using together?</p> Trying this today with QE 1.70c3 and scrawl 1.3.1 and having problems with date values (less than 1900) causing portlet errors and/or blog folder won’t render.

What versions are you using together?

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-394072 Jon Stahl Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:14:09 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-394072 <p>Trish- Haven't seen this, but it sounds like some conflict between QuillsEnabled and qPloneComments -- I'd ask on the Quills email list at: http://groups.google.com/group/plone-quills</p> Trish-
Haven’t seen this, but it sounds like some conflict between QuillsEnabled and qPloneComments — I’d ask on the Quills email list at: http://groups.google.com/group/plone-quills

]]> By: Trish http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-394068 Trish Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:47:37 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-394068 <p>Hi Jon! I love this idea. I've been testing it out on a site I'm working on, also using qPloneComments, but ran into a problem where something in QuillsEnabled overrides the anonymous comments of qPloneComments. What happens is anonymous comments are allowed, but instead of saving who the comments are from (i.e. the name of the anonymous user), it says 'Posted by '</p> <p>Have you seen this problem before or d'you have any ideas on how to start addressing it? Thanks!</p> <p>Trish</p> Hi Jon!
I love this idea. I’ve been testing it out on a site I’m working on, also using qPloneComments, but ran into a problem where something in QuillsEnabled overrides the anonymous comments of qPloneComments. What happens is anonymous comments are allowed, but instead of saving who the comments are from (i.e. the name of the anonymous user), it says ‘Posted by ‘

Have you seen this problem before or d’you have any ideas on how to start addressing it? Thanks!

Trish

]]> By: Joel Marion http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-394052 Joel Marion Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:13:34 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-394052 <p>Hi John,</p> <p>Looks great! I just gave this a shot on a test instance, and found a few minor quirks that might be helpful to others: - you note "Install QuillsEnabled, fatsyndication and Scrawl" - I also had to install "quills.app" in order for Blog Entry to be activated. - Blog Entry must also be made "addable" in Folders under portal_types, otherwise the add new entry form results in an error. Thanks for your great work on this! I look forward to seeing it in production.</p> <p>Joel</p> Hi John,

Looks great! I just gave this a shot on a test instance, and found a few minor quirks that might be helpful to others:
– you note “Install QuillsEnabled, fatsyndication and Scrawl” – I also had to install “quills.app” in order for Blog Entry to be activated.
– Blog Entry must also be made “addable” in Folders under portal_types, otherwise the add new entry form results in an error.
Thanks for your great work on this! I look forward to seeing it in production.

Joel

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-393969 Jon Stahl Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:14:01 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-393969 <p>Brett-</p> <p>Awesome! Looks great!</p> Brett-

Awesome! Looks great!

]]> By: Brett Wangman http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-393968 Brett Wangman Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:38:46 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-393968 <p>Hey Jon, Couldn't wait. So I had our Plone partner, Contextual, go ahead and install Quills and Scrawl on our dev site and now on our production site. It is certainly not as full featured as Wordpress, but Squall is working.</p> <p>To check it out, go to: http://www.tcag.com/connect/blogs/brettsblog</p> <p>Thanks for the inspiration.</p> <p>Brett</p> Hey Jon,
Couldn’t wait. So I had our Plone partner, Contextual, go ahead and install Quills and Scrawl on our dev site and now on our production site. It is certainly not as full featured as WordPress,
but Squall is working.

To check it out, go to: http://www.tcag.com/connect/blogs/brettsblog

Thanks for the inspiration.

Brett

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/05/01/squall-perfect-plone-blogging-with-scrawl-quills/comment-page-1/#comment-393893 Jon Stahl Fri, 22 May 2009 18:09:08 +0000 http://blogs.onenw.org/jon/?p=1735#comment-393893 <p>@Brett-</p> <p>This is a wordpress blog, I started it long before I started using Plone, and am too lazy to migrate. :-)</p> <p>I've not actually deployed "Squall" in production yet, but the blog posts look like Scrawl, with the portlets and master blog container provided by Quills. I'll try to post a few screenshots back here soon.</p> @Brett-

This is a wordpress blog, I started it long before I started using Plone, and am too lazy to migrate. :-)

I’ve not actually deployed “Squall” in production yet, but the blog posts look like Scrawl, with the portlets and master blog container provided by Quills. I’ll try to post a few screenshots back here soon.

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