How to define default views in Plone

Question

I have already a page template for the default view of a Plone site (main page). How to define the default view of a folder? This default view should use a page template.

Answer 1

Try this:

• navigate to the desired folder
• add "/manage_propertiesForm" at the end of the url
• in the resulting form add this property:
  • name: "layout"
  • type: "string"
  • value: the page template name without extension

Answer 2

Use the answers above if you want to set one of the default views (tabular, thumbnail, etc), but if you want to choose a particular content item for the default view of the folder, you can do it in the ZMI as suggested:

• navigate to the desired folder
• add "/manage_propertiesForm" at the end of the url
• in the resulting form add this property:
  • name: "default_page"
  • type: "string"
  • value: the id of the content item

or do it programmatically in Python:

content_id = "Name of the Content Item"
folder.manage_addProperty('default_page', content_id, 'string')

Hope this helps!