CMFPortlets 0.5.2 released: Portlets get interactive

Portlets are dynamic content units, used in corporate, educational and personalization-aware portals, that allow its users a unique and self-made experience of a session. CMFPortlets 0.5.2 is a work in progress, and currently a CMF skinset that takes over the layout of portlets made out of standard skinned folders and other portal types. Current version bundles sample portlets and a new exciting feature: the Interactive Layout.

CMFPortlets 0.5.2 features

Creation of inbound portlets by any member, and inbound and external by managers, using existing syndication products and standard portal types.
Allows to add, delete, rename and set the size properties of any number of published portlets pages (a.k.a. "workspaces"), independently of the user folder existence and the file system.
Allows to add, delete and set the width of any number of columns per page
Allows to add, delete and select the box skin of any number of portlets per column.(Box skins created by managers)
Interactive layout based on Dan George's Option Chooser 1.0 and DynAPI 2.5.6, that enables the selection and switching of portlet boxes by drag and drop.
Sample basic portlets features:
- Porlets settings showing properties defined by managers (as public or restricted, changeable only by managers)
- Default portlet properties allowing to use any portlet content either embedded within a box or in an iframe window.
- External content viewable trough iframes and any already deployed portlet.
- Configurable Folder viewer (displays the contents of any folder)
- Sample RSS feed. (Needs EIONET's RDFSummary installed)
- Interactive RGB color selector, (IE only).
- "My Stuff" and "Readme" portlets.

For download, more information, screenshots, features discussion, and a tour please visit:

Ausum Studio's CMFPortlets 0.5.2 page

0.5.2 Tour: (start page)
0.5.2 Screenshots:(thumbnails page)
0.5.0 Screenshots: (thumbnails page)