Question

I have an alternate homepage template, homepage.pt, which has a different layout. When I click the manage-portlets link to edit the portlets, though, it uses main_template.pt instead of homepage.pt. Is there any way to have @@manage-portlets use whichever template the page you’re editing the portlets for uses? It’s workable as is, but the layout is quite different to what the page actually looks like.

Answer 1

So, the answer is yes, with a little messing around. You can use an alternate template for manage-contextual.pt out of plone.app.portlets and change the metal:use-macro attribute to use your custom macro. I used jbot and naming the file:

plone.app.portlets.browser.templates.manage-contextual.pt

does what it should. This replaces the manage portlets view for all pages though, including ones that were using main_template.pt. Not insurmountable, but a little annoying. I can think of a few solutions:

1. Just add a new manage-portlets-yourspecialtemplate view that has a copy of manage-contextual.pt, modified to suit. This is the easiest way and lets me edit all my portlets (including the ones that were already there) in context as I originally wanted. Yay!
2. I didn’t try it, but if the only page you have with a non-main_template.pt template is your homepage you could try registering a manage-portlets view for the Products.CMFPlone.interfaces.IPloneSiteRoot interface. I haven’t tried adding views with the same name (but applying to different interfaces) so I have no idea if this works.
3. Some conditional logic in manage-contextual.pt that uses a different template based on whatever you use to distinguish whichever pages have different templates.