Moving, Deleting and Changing Text of Document Bylines

In Plone 2.1 onwards the byline is added by default at the top of the page. It will say something like:

By: webmaster last modified 11/12/1005 History +

This can be useful for some sites, but also can be inappropriate. For example, putting a poem by Shakespeare could leave you with this:

To Be or Not To Be from Hamlet

By: Richard last modified 1/01/2006

"To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..."

Rather inappropriate, perhaps, although Richard is quite a good writer.... :)

Here are a couple of suggestions:

To Make Document Byline Invisible

• The easy way: in theZMI, click on portal_properties, then site_properties and uncheck the AllowAnonymousViewAbout box.

Moving Document Byline

• In the ZMI, in portal_skins/plone_content/document_view/, first  move the document_view page template into the portal_skins/custom folder/ (a copy placed in the custom folder always overrides the original—in this case in plone_content). This can be done in the usual way by clicking "Customize".
• Then move the following line which calls the byline:

<div metal:use-macro="here/document_byline/macros/byline">
          Get the byline - contains details about author and modification date.
        </div>

to almost the bottom of the document_view template, leaving it just above related_items.

Strangely enough, putting in align="right" into the div tag above doesn't seem to align the byline to the right; one has to customize portal_skins/plone_content/document_byline/ instead,  adding align="right"  to the <div class="documentByLine" > tag.

Note: For best practice, "Customize" is only used for quick fixes or to show how the final customization will work.  Long-term, your template changes should be included in a product that can be placed in the Zope products folder and the files in the custom folder deleted.

Changing text of Document Byline

in the ZMI, go to portal_skins/plone_content/document_byline/  and click "Customize" as before. 

The bits to change are fairly obvious -  i.e to change the "By Richard Pettinger" to "Page created by Richard Pettinger" (and remove any lingering doubts as to the authorship of Hamlet), change

<span i18n:translate="label_by_author">
            By
to

<span i18n:translate="label_by_author">
            Page created by

Also, you can remove the modification date and the history by commenting out the appropriate section; i.e to remove the last modified date, comment out the paragraph beginning with <span i18n:translate="box_last_modified">