Elisabeth Donnay: iMio web portals aren't 100% based on Plone. Fake news?

published Oct 16, 2025

Talk by Elisabeth Donnay at Plone Conference 2025 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Yes, it is Plone. But no forms, no news items and events. We use react views: single page, speed.

We have a unified citizen portal, 'Publik', using secure authentication, via trusted national digital identity systems. Publik is a Django framework. Citizens can login for administration. They can also make suggestions to the local government.

Ideabox: citizen participation. This uses to be a Plone instance, but now a React view that is talking to the Publik app.

Are the editors happy with the new Plone? Yes, it is better than SmartWeb with Plone 4. There are some restrictions, but that is to keep the mobile experience nice, so it is good.

It is used in different municipalities. Each site has its own layout. We make a template and integration for each city.

We use the Plone restapi to get the json from the backend.