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Automatically installing products in your Zope instance

When working on a project like ours, you will find it very useful to automatically install some products in your Zope instance at buildout time.

How to do it…

If not done yet, add a new line in the parts definition at the top of buildout.cfg to tell buildout to create a Plone site automatically:
```
[buildout]

...

parts = 

...

 plonesite
```

And then add a new [plonesite] part at the bottom of the file:

[plonesite]
recipe = collective.recipe.plonesite
site-id = plone
instance = instance
products = 
 Products.poxContentTypes

Don't forget to build your instance and launch it once more.
```
./bin/buildout
./bin/instance fg
```

How it works…

The recipe used in [plonesite] part here — collective.recipe.plonesite — will create or update a new Plone site when the buildout is run. In addition, if any product is specified in the products parameter, it will be automatically installed.

Once your Zope instance is up, you can open your Plone home page and click on the Add new drop-down menu. By clicking on the XNewsItem option, a new form should open as shown in the following screenshot:

There's more…

You also have the option to install products manually:

Log into your Plone site as admin user.
Click on the Site Setup link on the top-right corner and then click on the Add-on Products link, or just go to http://localhost:8080/Plone/prefs_install_products_form.
In the Add/Remove Products page, select poxContentTypes in the Products available for install list and press the Install button below.