Plone 3 Products Development Cookbook
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Introduction

ArchGenXML is a great tool to ease the development of archetypes-based content types. It provides a graphic and bug-proof alternative to code products for Plone. It also allows the generation of workflow code or even portal tools.

Note

Content type is the name of the different kinds of objects we can create in a Plone site such as News Items, Events, Pages, and so on.

We don't aim to review comprehensively the whole set of ArchGenXML features but to introduce it as a trigger for learning it more deeply and as an introduction to the Archetypes framework.

In this chapter, we'll tackle the first item in the Customer requirements list we have exposed in the preface.

Note

News items will be published in several sections and must include some fields like country and lead.