How to define default views in Plone

Question

I already have a page template for the standard presentation of the Plone website (main page). How to determine the default view for a folder? This default view should use the page template.

Answer 1

Try the following:

• select the desired folder
• add "/ manage_propertiesForm" at the end of the URL
• in the resulting form add this property:
  • name: "layout"
  • type: "string"
  • value: page template name without extension

Answer 2

Use the answers above if you want to set one of the default views (tabular, thumbnail, etc.), but if you want to select a specific content item for the default view for the folder, you can do this in ZMI as suggested:

• select the desired folder
• add "/ manage_propertiesForm" at the end of the URL
• in the resulting form add this property:
  • name: "default_page"
  • type: "string"
  • value: content item identifier

or do it programmatically in Python:

content_id = "Name of the Content Item" folder.manage_addProperty('default_page', content_id, 'string') 

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Using the information and links sent by both Giacomo Spettoli and Mikko Ohtamaa, another guy from my work team was able to find a solution for our case:

• do as indicated by Giacomo (navigate to the desired folder, etc.).

• include the new directive in the configure.zcml file (this was found by my team assistant Mr. Mariano):

   <browser:page for="OFS.interfaces.IFolder" name=<name of the page template file> class=<name of the class used by the above template file> permission="zope2.View" /> 

Thanks to Giacomo and Mikko; their answers helped us solve this problem.