How to programmatically add a new static portlet

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I'm looking for a way to programmatically set some footer portlets in Plone 5. I have a script which uses the plone.api to create new content, but I don't see an similarly elegant approach for creating a new static portlet in target portlet manager.

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After some digging, this package is looking like my best bet https://github.com/collective/wm.sampledata

Specifically this "addPortlet" utility

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Wouldn't using GS be the easiest way? Look how Plone core installs portlets with GS perhaps?

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I'll vouch for the GS way of adding a portlet at add-on activation time. Was really easy to do.

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Agree with @vangheem and @tkimnguyen, here's an example for a header- and a footer-portlet, in conjunction with one of my fav-addons "Products.ContentWellPortlets":
http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/adi.simplestructure/trunk/adi/simplestructure/profiles/default/portlets.xml

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@ida, @tkimnguyen and @vangheem thank you for pointing this out, looks much simpler than what I was doing. The addPortlet approach did work btw, though it caused all sorts of mental contortions. Now I have to go find some use for my "hacky" approach. .

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I'm also looking at documentation on removing portlets here: http://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/functionality/portlets.html#hiding-unwanted-portlets

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IF you want to add a new Static Custom portlet pro grammatically than you have to do certain thing as as following :-1:

  1. Create your own custom addon product (Basic) using paster or mr.bob product skeleton script in your src directory,
  2. once your product skeleton has been created then you should create a portlets directory into your own product and register this directory in configure,zcml( ) .
  3. Inside the Portlet directory you have to create one more configure.zcml where you define your prottlet name and its functionality
    e.g
    <plone:portlet
    name="Product.name.StaticPortlet"
    interface=".StaticPortlet.IUCountPortlet"
    assignment=".StaticPortlet.Assignment"
    renderer=".StaticPortlet.Renderer"
    addview=".StaticPortlet.AddForm"
    editview=".StaticPortlet.EditForm"
    />
  4. Create StaticPortlet.py and StaticPortlet.pt where you define your html code anf python code logic.
  5. Refer Creating, Customizing, and Assigning Portlets Automatically here
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@jitesh43 this isn't what I was looking for, as this defines a brand new portlet. I wanted to be able to control an existing portlet type (Static portlet). I was able to successfully do so by borrowing ideas from https://github.com/collective/wm.sampledata.

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Ok, David Bain thanks for the update.

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can you share your final code?