Modernize sendto

[eleddy]

There are two options on this plip: this minimal way and the "wholy crap this thing is ancient and I want to make it nicer" way. I'll accept either.

Minimum: Update to z3c and browser views.

Files:

• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/master/Products/CMFPlone/skins/plone_form_scripts/sendto.cpy
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/master/Products/CMFPlone/skins/plone_form_scripts/sendto.cpy.metadata
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/master/Products/CMFPlone/skins/plone_form_scripts/validate_sendto.vpy
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/master/Products/CMFPlone/skins/plone_forms/sendto_form.cpt
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/master/Products/CMFPlone/skins/plone_forms/sendto_form.cpt.metadata

[davisagli]

How about the "people now know how to copy and paste a URL and/or click the Mail Link button in their mobile browser; let's kill this" option?

[eleddy]

I'm all for it. Any arguments against?

[encolpe]

People still like to push web page as mail as they share with twitter or facebook. The level 0 of social networking. It's not essential but cool.

[eleddy]

I think that Plone definitely needs a push on social networking stuff. I think we force the push by removing this and poiting to one of the many addons that do this much better.

[ctxlken]

I have an edge use case for you (in favor of keeping the feature.) I can recall a couple projects where the authors/editors/reviewers have used this feature as a way to share a link to an item that's in the Draft state (or similar state that allows View access to an anonymous site visitor) if they knew the direct URL to an item (because they won't typically find the item in navigation or search results until after it's published.)

So, this provides a way to still allow some anonymous, non-Plone-user a sort of 'informal review' or a 'sneak peak' at some new content, but not a review that's enforced by the workflow, so that they still feel sort of in the loop on things.

[eleddy]

@ctxlken I consider that you volunteering to migrate it then :)

[djay]

By that argument it should be moved to toolbar aka the backend. On 5 Dec 2013 19:18, "Ken Wasetis" notifications@github.com wrote:

I have an edge use case for you (in favor of keeping the feature.) I can recall a couple projects where the authors/editors/reviewers have used this feature as a way to share a link to an item that's in the Draft state (or similar state that allows View access to an anonymous site visitor) if they knew the direct URL to an item (because they won't typically find the item in navigation or search results until after it's published.)

So, this provides a way to still allow some anonymous, non-Plone-user a sort of 'informal review' or a 'sneak peak' at some new content, but not a review that's enforced by the workflow, so that they still feel sort of in the loop on things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/94#issuecomment-29878938 .

[ctxlken]

Agreed that's how it 'should' work, @eleddy , but little faith in me getting to it before end of January. Maybe I could trade you some January time helping on plone.com. (An offer you can't refuse.). I can live without send_to, by the way! but offer stands. ;). To be continued... outside of github.

[ghost]

The send to link is too open to abuse from spammers. I've had to remove the 'allow sendto' permission on older portals, even where there was no link to the form, because spammers still found it and were sending out email ostensibly from us. At the very least this permission should only be available to Managers by default, but I'd prefer to just see it gone.

[bosim]

Pull request opened for sendto rewrite to z3c form: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/179