Plone Mosaic

Plone Mosaic allows you to define global site layouts and override them on specific contents or sections. You can then compose the content of the page using the Mosaic editor.

The Mosaic editor lets you insert blocks (a.k.a. tiles) into the content of the page so that you can easily build custom composite pages for your contents on the fly.

Plone Mosaic works with Plone 4.3 and later.

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• Getting started
  • First steps with Mosaic
  • Installation and activation
  • Mosaic Layout
  • Mosaic editor
• Mosaic Tiles
  • Table of contents
  • Rich Text
  • Navigation
  • Embed
  • Title
  • Summary
  • Text
  • Discussion
  • Content listing
  • Existing content
  • RSS Feed
  • Document byline
  • Table of contents
  • Related items
  • Keywords
• Content Layouts
  • Restricting content layouts globally
  • Restricting content layouts per content type
  • Permissions
• Moving and Editing tiles
  • Example tile with all functionality to move, remove, edit, etc::
  • Adding unmovable tiles into content layouts
  • Adding non-removable tiles into content layouts (removing class ‘removable’ from ‘mosaic-tile’)
  • Adding readonly tiles into content layouts
  • Configuring the amount of columns available in layout
  • Adding editable HTML area (raw html tile) into content layout
• Editor
  • Adding a new custom (Python based) tile into insert menu
  • Hiding tile formats from format menu
  • Adding a new tile format into format menu
  • Hiding row formats from format menu
  • Adding a new row format into format menu
• Mosaic registry configuration
  • Enabling review action
• Using a Custom Grid
  • Pro Tip
• Site layout management
  • Enable Mosaic Site Layouts
  • Changing the current site layout
  • Creating a new site layout through the web

Terminology changes in Plone Mosaic

Plone Mosaic changes how Plone page composition works, and the new way comes with some new terms:

Plone	Mosaic
main template	site layout
view template	content layout / custom layout
metal slots	layout panels
metal macros, portlets, viewlets, providers, etc...	tiles

In short:

• For each page, a configured site layout is looked up (falling back to the old main template).
• A site layout may contain one or more panels, which are later filled from the configured content layout (or custom content layout saved into the current content item).
• Both site layout and content layout may contain one or more tiles to provide the actual context dependent content.