Plone 4: Restore 'portal_groups'

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Hello,

I somehow managed to lose (?) a 'portal_groups' object, which I would like to restore. I've been reading through Products.CMFPlone and a few other products, but haven't yet managed to find the location where this tool is created or registered. The most irritating thing was that I couldn't find this thing in a new Plone 4 site which I created from scratch, either.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,
Toni

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Hi Toni,
portal_groups is typically located at your Plone site root. You can inspect this by going through the Zope Management Interface (in short: ZMI), e.g. http://localhost:8080/Plone/manage (whereas "Plone" is the site id).

Maybe you have to undo the transaction, that caused the deletion/relocation/renaming of portal_groups. Have a look into http://localhost:8080/Plone/manage_UndoForm

One example for that entry is here:

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The tool itself is created in Products.PlonePAS (in tools/groups.py).

best, Paul

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Hi Paul,

thank you! I'll have a look.

Kind regards,
Toni

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Alternatively, add a new Plone site and copy it (from there) in the ZMI (?)

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All tools in Plone are located as objects contained in the site root object, and are all listed when viewing /manage_main for your site (the Zope Management Interface, or ZMI).

This tool in particular, if it was accidentally deleted somehow:

  • Is necessary for site function, but
  • does not store data on its own, so you have lost site function, but not likely any data of value
  • Can likely be re-added in the Zope 2 ZMI by:
  1. visiting /manage_main and navigating to the root of your Plone site in the ZMI
  2. selecting PlonePAS Tool from the Add dropdown (possibly clicking the Add button after, I cannot remember, since this is changed in Zope 4+).
  3. Selecting "Groups Tool".
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Hi Espen,

I tried, but that didn't work out too well because the old site also has some bad registrations that I'll need to get rid of first - they spilled over into the new site, so the new site was immediately broken.

Too bad most of those errors are in a PAS related custom product... so not easy to fix.

Kind regards,
Toni

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Hi Sean,

that worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!
The tool was added despite the traceback I got when trying to add it.

Kind regards,
Toni