Meeting: A content type for displaying meeting information and meeting documents

The meeting type is designed to simplify the process of adding meeting information to a Plone Site.

The following are features of Meeting:

• Meetings are designed to show up in the calendar (the start date and end date must be set for them to show in the default calendar)
• MultiLingual capability - The source document can be translated, The translated versions can even have different attachments
• A special Meeting Documents Area which allows visitors to see all documents at a glance.
• Additional information such as hotel and visa information can be added via separate sections for referencing documents and adding hotel visa (accomodation and travel information)
• A downloadable registration form can be associated with a given meeting and displayed in the Meeting Documents Area
• The Meeting document menu and menu sections are dynamically generated. For example, if there are no conference papers then the conference papers section will not appear.
• Richtext editing makes it possible to cut and paste straight from a wordprocessor document in the details field and the hotel visa field

Installation -------------- See the section on installation

Using the Meeting Product -------------------------- 1. Log into your plone site 2. Navigate to the folder where you would like to add the Meeting 3. In the add to folder menu choose meeting 4. You will be prompted to add the following information:

  Name: Meeting Name or Title
  Summary: A short description of the meeting
  Details: This is a more indepth description and may include links and pictures
  Meeting Type: This could be an IGM, ISTAC, MONCOM, Workshop etc... 
  (future versions of the system will allow you to add new types of meetings)
  Start: The starting date for the meeting
  End: The ending date for the meeting
  Country: Choose a Country from the Dropdown menu 
  (countries are arranged by region, e.g. Caribbean, Middle-East, North-America)
  Location: Use this to specify a more specific location (this could be something like: Hilton Hotel, Kingston) 
  Recommendations and Decisions: Attach documents (pdf, opendoc, word etc..) that have details about recommendations and decisions.