Package: collective.liches
Introduction============Keeping the links in your site up to date is hard and unappreciated work.Content editors need all the help and incentive they can get to dothis job. Liches_ tries to make this task a bit easier.Installation============Liches-------You have to install a Liches_ linkchecker server for this product to work.please follow the Liches_ installation instructions and make sure yourLiches_ server works before installing the plone product.Plone------This addon can be installed has any other addons, please follow officialdocumentation_... _documentation: http://plone.org/documentation/kb/installing-add-ons-quick-how-toThe short version is:++++++++++++++++++++++Add ``collective.liches`` to the list of eggs to install, e.g.::[buildout]...eggs =...collective.lichesRe-run buildout, e.g. with::$ ./bin/buildoutRestart Plone and activate the product in Plones Add-on configurationsection.Usage======Configure the access to your Liches_ Linkchecker server and which contenttypes will be displayed on your link checker start page in the plonecontrol panel. The 'Secrect Key' is you Liches_ API Key and used toupdate existing pages in the Liches server.. image:: https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.liches/master/docs/liches-settings.pngLinkcheckers normally go through your site recursivly whichwill result in many pages to be checked several times. Thelinkchecker start pages tries to avoid this by giving thelinkchecker_ a page from which every relevant content item can be reached.Append `@@linkchecker-startpage.html` to your siteroot to view this page... image:: https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.liches/master/docs/linkchecker-startpage.pngThe Liches portlet gives an overview how many pages with broken linksare present in the site or the current path... image:: https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.liches/master/docs/liches-portlet.pngThe links in the portlet take you to a page which gives you an overviewof the pages with broken links in the site or current path. Alternativelyappend `@@linkchecker-brokenpages.html` to your site root or to anyfolder(ish object) in your site... image:: https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.liches/master/docs/broken-pages-in-site.pngAll pages will show you (as long as you are able to edit it) which linksare broken. At the top you see a summary of the links and the resultof the linkcheck. Broken Links are highlighted and underlined in red.After you corrected the links you may want to recheck the links in thispage. Press the 'Check Links' Button and wait for a few minutes for thelinkchecker_ to finish... image:: https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.liches/master/docs/broken-links-in-page.pngSimilar Products================You may also want to have a look at the competition.gocept.linkchecker_  relies on a separate process gocept.lms_ to performexternal link-checking. It communicates with Plone via XML-RPC.collective.linkcheck_ is an integrated solution, with a headless instanceprocessing items in the background.Why yet another solution?-------------------------- I want my linkchecking to be independent from plone and to beable to monitor non plone sites with the same tool.- Linkchecking is hard. The venerable linkchecker_ is a tried and testedtool that does this job good. It has lots of options to finetune the resultsto your needs e.g. to check the validity of HTLM and CSS... _linkchecker: http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/.. _Liches: https://github.com/cleder/liches.. _gocept.lms: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gocept.lms/.. _gocept.linkchecker: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gocept.linkchecker/.. _collective.linkcheck: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.linkcheck/Changelog=========0.2 (2013/08/30)------------------ add portlet- add button to invoke linkchecker for a certain page- ability to filter invalid only pages- filter pages with broken links by error code0.1 (2013/07/31)-------------------- Initial release