Extranet's New Plone (Login Instructions) 

For nearly three years, ifPeople has leveraged a Plone-based system as an area for collaboration with clients as well as our internationally-distributed team. This space, aka the Extranet, has leveraged the interactive features and fine-grained security controls of Plone to create a space where our team works with the client's participation in carrying out custom web site and software projects.

Over the years, the broader community around the Free/Open Source Plone system continued to fuel the software's development. "Plone, to me," says ifPeople cofounder Christopher Johnson, "is an expression of the shared passions and collective contributions of good people guided by a strong commitment to best practices, human-friendly and accessible technology, and flexible  solutions." Plone has fostered an international movement of developers, users, companies, organizations, universities, and governments to take control of their technology by choosing Free/Open Source Software (which doesn't mean a sacrifice, since Plone can handle enterprise challenges ellegantly). ifPeople fosters the growth of the Plone developer community in South America's Southern Cone through training developers as part of FairSource.

"We at ifPeople continue to be impressed with the commitment and talent of the Plone community," says Tirza Hollenhorst, ifPeople's other cofounder. We are glad to be able to bring the latest products of the community to our clients, both through our projects and now through our extranet.

The extranet now uses Plone 2.5.1, which was released in October 2006. This release comes after Plone 2.1, which make significant performance and feature improvements to Plone. The latest evolution, however, is more about the underlying infrastructure.

How to log in to the extranet (since upgrade)

When you log into a Plone site, your browser users a cookie. Since the extranet was upgraded, you will need to toss the old cookie so the new version can get its own cookie. You can typically do this from your browser's "preference" or "options" managing screen. Below are step-by-step guides for some common browsers.

Firefox Users Instructions | Internet Explorer Users Instructions 

How to delete cookies using Firefox

If you use Firefox as your web browser, then select Preferences from the Edit menu.  Click the Privacy icon (and possibly the Cookies Tab depending on the version you are using).  You will see the following window:



Click the Show or View Cookies button and you will see a screen similar to this:



Scroll through the list until you find extranet.ifpeople.net and select it.  Then click the Remove Cookie button.

How to delete cookies using Internet Explorer

If you use Internet Explorer as your web browser, select Internet Options from the Tools menu.  You will see this screen and should be in the General Tab:



Choose Settings and you will see the following screen:



Next, click View Files where you will see a list of files.  Sort the files shown by Name (by clicking on the Name column) and find the file that starts with "Cookie:" and includes extranet.ifpeople.net.  Highlight this cookie and select delete.