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OmniActions

OmniActions (formerly 'Pilot') is a navigational tool that relies on Zope, the CMF, and a popular javascript, to render several DHTML menus aimed to simplify the work, while using Zope&CMF interfaces. The primary goals were:

To reduce to a minimun the number of page views (clicks) to open objects.
To reduce the overall number of windows opened in a typical work session at ZMI and CMF
To allow more than one action per menu item.
To get rid of the 'actions box' within the CMF, and supersede it by a floating menu version, more powerful in features.
As a result of the previous, to free CMF pages' space, so that they can display more relevant content (instead of wasting it to show off all sort of commands.)
... (Write here your own :) )

	OmniActions has many menu-generation options, so that you can leverage your work, taking into account your particular behaviours. This and the following screenshots display the menu configuration according to my needs. This screenshot shows what happens when you doubleclick at any space of the current page, inside the editing page of the "folder_contents" skin from your "custom" folder. Note you can browse and open any other skin from there, without switching to another window or opening the portal_skins folder. If you need to open "topic_editTopic", for example, in your preferred external editor (using External Editor product), you can X+click the item.
	If you are a CMF user this is what happens when you doubleclik at any page. Note that you have all the links from actions links/action box. in a single floating menu, and that you can browse and open the content at your personal and favorites folder (My stuff and My favorites respectively) without the need to open any other page.
	This is what you'll see if you ALT+doubleclik, instead of just doubleclick: A different menu will be displayed, containing links for the management folders of all your entire CMF portal. (Happens only if you have the Manager role for the site.) If you want to open the "zpt generic" folder in a different window, for example, you just need to SHIFT+click the item
	Always within the same window, if you CTRL+doubleclick at any space of the page, a menu with links to all your folders and portals at the Zope root, will be displayed. If you want to view the "CMFSite05" portal, for example, at a different window, you must V+click at the correspondant item. Note that you always have a "Recent objects" link at any ZMI menu.
	This is what you'll see if you call the floating actions box, when you are viewing any rendered portal content inside a folder owned by you. All the expected actions are there, but also (as explained above) you can browse an open other content and favorites of your own, and also you can create new content at the closest folder (or folderish object), all without leaving the page.