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1 ===================
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2 Customising Roundup
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3 ===================
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5 :Version: $Revision: 1.37 $
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7 .. This document borrows from the ZopeBook section on ZPT. The original is at:
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8 http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/ZPT.stx
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10 .. contents::
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11 :depth: 1
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13 What You Can Do
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14 ===============
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16 Customisation of Roundup can take one of five forms:
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18 1. `tracker configuration`_ file changes
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19 2. database, or `tracker schema`_ changes
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20 3. "definition" class `database content`_ changes
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21 4. behavioural changes, through detectors_
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22 5. `access controls`_
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24 The third case is special because it takes two distinctly different forms
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25 depending upon whether the tracker has been initialised or not. The other two
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26 may be done at any time, before or after tracker initialisation. Yes, this
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27 includes adding or removing properties from classes.
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30 Trackers in a Nutshell
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31 ======================
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33 Trackers have the following structure:
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35 =================== ========================================================
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36 Tracker File Description
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37 =================== ========================================================
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38 config.py Holds the basic `tracker configuration`_
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39 dbinit.py Holds the `tracker schema`_
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40 interfaces.py Defines the Web and E-Mail interfaces for the tracker
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41 select_db.py Selects the database back-end for the tracker
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42 db/ Holds the tracker's database
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43 db/files/ Holds the tracker's upload files and messages
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44 detectors/ Auditors and reactors for this tracker
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45 html/ Web interface templates, images and style sheets
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46 =================== ========================================================
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48 Tracker Configuration
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49 =====================
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51 The config.py located in your tracker home contains the basic
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52 configuration for the web and e-mail components of roundup's interfaces. This
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53 file is a Python module. The configuration variables available are:
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55 **TRACKER_HOME** - ``os.path.split(__file__)[0]``
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56 The tracker home directory. The above default code will automatically
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57 determine the tracker home for you.
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59 **MAILHOST** - ``'localhost'``
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60 The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send e-mail.
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62 **MAIL_DOMAIN** - ``'your.tracker.email.domain.example'``
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63 The domain name used for email addresses.
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65 **DATABASE** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')``
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66 This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in. By default
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67 it is in the tracker home.
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69 **TEMPLATES** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')``
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70 This is the directory that the HTML templates reside in. By default they are
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71 in the tracker home.
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73 **TRACKER_NAME** - ``'Roundup issue tracker'``
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74 A descriptive name for your roundup tracker. This is sent out in e-mails and
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75 appears in the heading of CGI pages.
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77 **TRACKER_EMAIL** - ``'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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78 The email address that e-mail sent to roundup should go to. Think of it as the
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79 tracker's personal e-mail address.
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81 **TRACKER_WEB** - ``'http://your.tracker.url.example/'``
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82 The web address that the tracker is viewable at. This will be included in
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83 information sent to users of the tracker.
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85 **ADMIN_EMAIL** - ``'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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86 The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into trouble.
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88 **MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR** - ``'yes'`` or``'no'``
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89 Send nosy messages to the author of the message.
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91 **ADD_AUTHOR_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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92 Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list automatically?
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93 If ``'new'`` is used, then the author will only be added when a message
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94 creates a new issue. If ``'yes'``, then the author will be added on followups
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97 **ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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98 Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy list?
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99 If ``'new'`` is used, then the recipients will only be added when a message
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103 **EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION** - ``'top'``, ``'bottom'`` or ``'none'``
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104 Where to place the email signature in messages that Roundup generates.
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106 **EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT** - ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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107 Keep email citations. Citations are the part of e-mail which the sender has
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108 quoted in their reply to previous e-mail.
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110 **EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED** - ``'no'``
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111 Preserve the email body as is. Enabiling this will cause the entire message
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112 body to be stored, including all citations and signatures. It should be
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113 either ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``.
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115 **MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS** - ``'issue'`` or ``''``
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116 Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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117 subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it blank.
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119 The default config.py is given below - as you
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120 can see, the MAIL_DOMAIN must be edited before any interaction with the
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121 tracker is attempted.::
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123 # roundup home is this package's directory
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124 TRACKER_HOME=os.path.split(__file__)[0]
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126 # The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send mail
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127 MAILHOST = 'localhost'
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129 # The domain name used for email addresses.
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130 MAIL_DOMAIN = 'your.tracker.email.domain.example'
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132 # This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in
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133 DATABASE = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')
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135 # This is the directory that the HTML templates reside in
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136 TEMPLATES = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')
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138 # A descriptive name for your roundup tracker
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139 TRACKER_NAME = 'Roundup issue tracker'
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141 # The email address that mail to roundup should go to
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142 TRACKER_EMAIL = 'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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145 TRACKER_WEB = 'http://your.tracker.url.example/'
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147 # The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into trouble
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148 ADMIN_EMAIL = 'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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150 # Send nosy messages to the author of the message
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151 MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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153 # Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list automatically?
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154 # If 'new' is used, then the author will only be added when a message
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155 # creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the author will be added on followups
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156 # too. If 'no', they're never added to the nosy.
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157 ADD_AUTHOR_TO_NOSY = 'new' # one of 'yes', 'no', 'new'
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159 # Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy list?
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160 # If 'new' is used, then the recipients will only be added when a message
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161 # creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the recipients will be added on followups
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162 # too. If 'no', they're never added to the nosy.
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163 ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY = 'new' # either 'yes', 'no', 'new'
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165 # Where to place the email signature
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166 EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION = 'bottom' # one of 'top', 'bottom', 'none'
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168 # Keep email citations
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169 EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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171 # Preserve the email body as is
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172 EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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174 # Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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175 # subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it blank.
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176 # Examples:
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177 MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'issue' # use "issue" class by default
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178 #MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = '' # disable (or just comment the var out)
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180 Tracker Schema
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181 ==============
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183 Note: if you modify the schema, you'll most likely need to edit the
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184 `web interface`_ HTML template files and `detectors`_ to reflect
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185 your changes.
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187 A tracker schema defines what data is stored in the tracker's database.
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188 The
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189 schemas shipped with Roundup turn it into a typical software bug tracker or
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190 help desk.
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192 XXX make sure we ship the help desk
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194 Schemas are defined using Python code in the ``dbinit.py`` module of your
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195 tracker. The "classic" schema looks like this::
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197 pri = Class(db, "priority", name=String(), order=String())
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198 pri.setkey("name")
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199 pri.create(name="critical", order="1")
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200 pri.create(name="urgent", order="2")
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201 pri.create(name="bug", order="3")
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202 pri.create(name="feature", order="4")
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203 pri.create(name="wish", order="5")
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205 stat = Class(db, "status", name=String(), order=String())
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206 stat.setkey("name")
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207 stat.create(name="unread", order="1")
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208 stat.create(name="deferred", order="2")
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209 stat.create(name="chatting", order="3")
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210 stat.create(name="need-eg", order="4")
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211 stat.create(name="in-progress", order="5")
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212 stat.create(name="testing", order="6")
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213 stat.create(name="done-cbb", order="7")
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214 stat.create(name="resolved", order="8")
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216 keyword = Class(db, "keyword", name=String())
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217 keyword.setkey("name")
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219 user = Class(db, "user", username=String(), password=String(),
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220 address=String(), realname=String(), phone=String(),
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221 organisation=String())
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222 user.setkey("username")
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223 user.create(username="admin", password=adminpw,
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224 address=config.ADMIN_EMAIL)
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226 msg = FileClass(db, "msg", author=Link("user"), recipients=Multilink
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227 ("user"), date=Date(), summary=String(), files=Multilink("file"))
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229 file = FileClass(db, "file", name=String(), type=String())
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231 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", assignedto=Link("user"),
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232 topic=Multilink("keyword"), priority=Link("priority"), status=Link
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233 ("status"))
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234 issue.setkey('title')
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236 XXX security definitions
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238 Classes and Properties - creating a new information store
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239 ---------------------------------------------------------
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241 In the tracker above, we've defined 7 classes of information:
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243 priority
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244 Defines the possible levels of urgency for issues.
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246 status
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247 Defines the possible states of processing the issue may be in.
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249 keyword
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250 Initially empty, will hold keywords useful for searching issues.
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252 user
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253 Initially holding the "admin" user, will eventually have an entry for all
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254 users using roundup.
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256 msg
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257 Initially empty, will all e-mail messages sent to or generated by
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258 roundup.
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260 file
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261 Initially empty, will all files attached to issues.
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263 issue
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264 Initially empty, this is where the issue information is stored.
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266 We define the "priority" and "status" classes to allow two things: reduction in
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267 the amount of information stored on the issue and more powerful, accurate
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268 searching of issues by priority and status. By only requiring a link on the
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269 issue (which is stored as a single number) we reduce the chance that someone
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270 mis-types a priority or status - or simply makes a new one up.
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272 Class and Items
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273 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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275 A Class defines a particular class (or type) of data that will be stored in the
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276 database. A class comprises one or more properties, which given the information
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277 about the class items.
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278 The actual data entered into the database, using class.create() are called
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279 items. They have a special immutable property called id. We sometimes refer to
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280 this as the itemid.
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282 Properties
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283 ~~~~~~~~~~
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285 A Class is comprised of one or more properties of the following types:
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287 * String properties are for storing arbitrary-length strings.
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288 * Password properties are for storing encoded arbitrary-length strings. The
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289 default encoding is defined on the roundup.password.Password class.
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290 * Date properties store date-and-time stamps. Their values are Timestamp
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291 objects.
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292 * Number properties store numeric values.
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293 * Boolean properties store on/off, yes/no, true/false values.
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294 * A Link property refers to a single other item selected from a specified
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295 class. The class is part of the property; the value is an integer, the id
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296 of the chosen item.
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297 * A Multilink property refers to possibly many items in a specified class.
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298 The value is a list of integers.
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300 FileClass
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301 ~~~~~~~~~
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312 IssueClasses automatically include the "messages", "files", "nosy", and
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363 The detectors in your tracker fire before (*auditors*) and after (*reactors*)
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364 changes to the contents of your database. They are Python modules that sit in
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365 your tracker's ``detectors`` directory. You will have some installed by
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366 default - have a look. You can write new detectors or modify the existing
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367 ones. The existing detectors installed for you are:
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369 **nosyreaction.py**
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370 This provides the automatic nosy list maintenance and email sending. The nosy
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371 reactor (``nosyreaction``) fires when new messages are added to issues.
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372 The nosy auditor (``updatenosy``) fires when issues are changed and figures
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373 what changes need to be made to the nosy list (like adding new authors etc)
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374 **statusauditor.py**
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375 This provides the ``chatty`` auditor which changes the issue status from
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376 ``unread`` or ``closed`` to ``chatting`` if new messages appear. It also
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377 provides the ``presetunread`` auditor which pre-sets the status to
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378 ``unread`` on new items if the status isn't explicitly defined.
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380 See the detectors section in the `design document`__ for details of the
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381 interface for detectors.
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382
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383 __ design.html
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385 Sample additional detectors that have been found useful will appear in the
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387
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388 **newissuecopy.py**
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389 This detector sends an email to a team address whenever a new issue is
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390 created. The address is hard-coded into the detector, so edit it before you
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397 def newissuecopy(db, cl, nodeid, oldvalues):
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398 ''' Copy a message about new issues to a team address.
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399 '''
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406 # note: last arg must be a list
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418 Note: if you modify the content of definitional classes, you'll most likely
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421 Customisation of the special "definitional" classes (eg. status, priority,
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426 **Changing content before tracker initialisation**
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427 Edit the dbinit module in your tracker to alter the items created in using
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428 the create() methods.
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445 roundup.cgi, roundup-server and ZRoundup.
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451 anything you want as a web interface to your tracker.
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460 properties added or removed,
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464 How requests are processed
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465 --------------------------
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466
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467 The basic processing of a web request proceeds as follows:
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468
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469 1. figure out who we are, defaulting to the "anonymous" user
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470 2. figure out what the request is for - we call this the "context"
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471 3. handle any requested action (item edit, search, ...)
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472 4. render a template, resulting in HTML output
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473
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474 In some situations, exceptions occur:
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475
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476 - HTTP Redirect (generally raised by an action)
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477 - SendFile (generally raised by determine_context)
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478 here we serve up a FileClass "content" property
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479 - SendStaticFile (generally raised by determine_context)
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480 here we serve up a file from the tracker "html" directory
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481 - Unauthorised (generally raised by an action)
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482 here the action is cancelled, the request is rendered and an error
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483 message is displayed indicating that permission was not
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484 granted for the action to take place
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485 - NotFound (raised wherever it needs to be)
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486 this exception percolates up to the CGI interface that called the client
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487
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488 Determining web context
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489 -----------------------
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490
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491 To determine the "context" of a request, we look at the URL and the special
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492 request variable ``:template``. The URL path after the tracker identifier
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493 is examined. Typical URL paths look like:
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494
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495 1. ``/tracker/issue``
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496 2. ``/tracker/issue1``
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497 3. ``/tracker/_file/style.css``
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498 4. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1``
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499 5. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1/kitten.png``
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500
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501 where the "tracker identifier" is "tracker" in the above cases. That means
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502 we're looking at "issue", "issue1", "_file/style.css", "file1" and
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503 "file1/kitten.png" in the cases above. The path is generally only one
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504 entry long - longer paths are handled differently.
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505
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506 a. if there is no path, then we are in the "home" context.
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507 b. if the path starts with "_file" (as in example 3,
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508 "/tracker/_file/style.css"), then the additional path entry,
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509 "style.css" specifies the filename of a static file we're to serve up
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510 from the tracker "html" directory. Raises a SendStaticFile
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511 exception.
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512 c. if there is something in the path (as in example 1, "issue"), it identifies
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513 the tracker class we're to display.
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514 d. if the path is an item designator (as in examples 2 and 4, "issue1" and
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515 "file1"), then we're to display a specific item.
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516 e. if the path starts with an item designator and is longer than
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517 one entry (as in example 5, "file1/kitten.png"), then we're assumed
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518 to be handling an item of a
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519 FileClass, and the extra path information gives the filename
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520 that the client is going to label the download with (ie
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521 "file1/kitten.png" is nicer to download than "file1"). This
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522 raises a SendFile exception.
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523
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524 Both b. and e. stop before we bother to
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525 determine the template we're going to use. That's because they
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526 don't actually use templates.
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527
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528 The template used is specified by the ``:template`` CGI variable,
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529 which defaults to:
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530
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531 - only classname suplied: "index"
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532 - full item designator supplied: "item"
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533
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534
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535 Performing actions in web requests
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537
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538 When a user requests a web page, they may optionally also request for an
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539 action to take place. As described in `how requests are processed`_, the
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540 action is performed before the requested page is generated. Actions are
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541 triggered by using a ``:action`` CGI variable, where the value is one of:
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542
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543 **login**
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544 Attempt to log a user in.
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545 **logout**
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546 Log the user out - make them "anonymous".
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547 **register**
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548 Attempt to create a new user based on the contents of the form and then log
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549 them in.
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550 **edit**
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551 Perform an edit of an item in the database. There are some special form
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552 elements you may use:
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553
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554 :link=designator:property and :multilink=designator:property
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555 The value specifies an item designator and the property on that
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556 item to add _this_ item to as a link or multilink.
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557 :note
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558 Create a message and attach it to the current item's
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559 "messages" property.
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560 :file
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561 Create a file and attach it to the current item's
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562 "files" property. Attach the file to the message created from
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563 the :note if it's supplied.
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564 :required=property,property,...
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565 The named properties are required to be filled in the form.
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567 **new**
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568 Add a new item to the database. You may use the same special form elements
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569 as in the "edit" action.
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571 **editCSV**
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572 Performs an edit of all of a class' items in one go. See also the
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573 *class*.csv templating method which generates the CSV data to be edited, and
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574 the "_generic.index" template which uses both of these features.
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576 **search**
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577 Mangle some of the form variables.
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578
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579 Set the form ":filter" variable based on the values of the
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580 filter variables - if they're set to anything other than
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581 "dontcare" then add them to :filter.
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582
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583 Also handle the ":queryname" variable and save off the query to
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584 the user's query list.
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585
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586 Each of the actions is implemented by a corresponding *actionAction* (where
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587 "action" is the name of the action) method on
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588 the roundup.cgi.Client class, which also happens to be in your tracker as
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589 interfaces.Client. So if you need to define new actions, you may add them
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590 there (see `defining new web actions`_).
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591
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592 Each action also has a corresponding *actionPermission* (where
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593 "action" is the name of the action) method which determines
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594 whether the action is permissible given the current user. The base permission
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595 checks are:
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596
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597 **login**
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598 Determine whether the user has permission to log in.
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599 Base behaviour is to check the user has "Web Access".
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600 **logout**
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601 No permission checks are made.
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602 **register**
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603 Determine whether the user has permission to register
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604 Base behaviour is to check the user has "Web Registration".
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605 **edit**
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606 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this item.
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607 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class. If we're
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608 editing the "user" class, users are allowed to edit their own
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609 details. Unless it's the "roles" property, which requires the
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610 special Permission "Web Roles".
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611 **new**
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612 Determine whether the user has permission to create (edit) this item.
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613 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class. No
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614 additional property checks are made. Additionally, new user items
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615 may be created if the user has the "Web Registration" Permission.
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616 **editCSV**
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617 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this class.
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618 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class.
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619 **search**
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620 Determine whether the user has permission to search this class.
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621 Base behaviour is to check the user can view this class.
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624 Default templates
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625 -----------------
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626
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627 Most customisation of the web view can be done by modifying the templates in
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628 the tracker **html** directory. There are several types of files in there:
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630 **page**
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631 This template defines the overall look of your tracker. When you
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632 view an issue, it appears inside this template. When you view an index, it
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633 also appears inside this template. It will have a ``tal:content`` or
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634 ``tal:replace`` command with the expression ``structure content`` which
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635 will show the issue, list of issues or whatever.
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636 **home**
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637 the default page displayed when no other page is indicated by the user
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638 **home.classlist**
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639 a special version of the default page that lists the classes in the tracker
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640 **classname.item**
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641 displays an item of the *classname* class
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642 **classname.index**
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643 displays a list of *classname* items
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644 **classname.search**
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645 displays a search page for *classname* items
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646 **_generic.index**
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647 used to display a list of items where there is no *classname*.index available
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648 **_generic.help**
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649 used to display a "class help" page where there is no *classname*.help
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650 **user.register**
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651 a special page just for the user class that renders the registration page
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652 **style.css**
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653 a static file that is served up as-is
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655 Note: Remember that you can create any template extension you want to, so
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656 if you just want to play around with the templating for new issues, you can
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657 copy the current "issue.item" template to "issue.test", and then access the
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658 test template using the ":template" URL argument::
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659
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660 http://your.tracker.example/tracker/issue?:template=test
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661
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662 and it won't affect your users using the "issue.item" template.
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663
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664
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665 How the templates work
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666 ----------------------
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667
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668 Roundup's templates consist of special attributes on your template tags. These
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669 attributes form the Template Attribute Language, or TAL. The commands are:
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670
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671
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672 **tal:define="variable expression; variable expression; ..."**
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673 Define a new variable that is local to this tag and its contents. For
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674 example::
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675
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676 <html tal:define="title request/description">
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677 <head><title tal:content="title"></title></head>
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678 </html>
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679
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680 In the example, the variable "title" is defined as being the result of the
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681 expression "request/description". The tal:content command inside the <html>
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682 tag may then use the "title" variable.
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683
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684 **tal:condition="expression"**
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685 Only keep this tag and its contents if the expression is true. For example::
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686
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687 <p tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'issue')">
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688 Display some issue information.
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689 </p>
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690
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691 In the example, the <p> tag and its contents are only displayed if the
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692 user has the View permission for issues. We consider the number zero, a
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693 blank string, an empty list, and the built-in variable nothing to be false
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694 values. Nearly every other value is true, including non-zero numbers, and
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695 strings with anything in them (even spaces!).
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696
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697 **tal:repeat="variable expression"**
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698 Repeat this tag and its contents for each element of the sequence that the
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699 expression returns, defining a new local variable and a special "repeat"
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700 variable for each element. For example::
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701
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702 <tr tal:repeat="u user/list">
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703 <td tal:content="u/id"></td>
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704 <td tal:content="u/username"></td>
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705 <td tal:content="u/realname"></td>
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706 </tr>
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707
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708 The example would iterate over the sequence of users returned by
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709 "user/list" and define the local variable "u" for each entry.
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710
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711 **tal:replace="expression"**
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712 Replace this tag with the result of the expression. For example::
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713
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714 <span tal:replace="request/user/realname"></span>
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715
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716 The example would replace the <span> tag and its contents with the user's
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717 realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce" then the resultant output
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718 would be "Bruce".
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720 **tal:content="expression"**
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721 Replace the contents of this tag with the result of the expression. For
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722 example::
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723
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724 <span tal:content="request/user/realname">user's name appears here</span>
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725
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726 The example would replace the contents of the <span> tag with the user's
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727 realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce" then the resultant output
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728 would be "<span>Bruce</span>".
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730 **tal:attributes="attribute expression; attribute expression; ..."**
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731 Set attributes on this tag to the results of expressions. For example::
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732
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733 <a tal:attributes="href string:user${request/user/id}">My Details</a>
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734
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735 In the example, the "href" attribute of the <a> tag is set to the value of
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736 the "string:user${request/user/id}" expression, which will be something
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737 like "user123".
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739 **tal:omit-tag="expression"**
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740 Remove this tag (but not its contents) if the expression is true. For
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741 example::
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742
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743 <span tal:omit-tag="python:1">Hello, world!</span>
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744
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745 would result in output of::
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746
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747 Hello, world!
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748
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749 Note that the commands on a given tag are evaulated in the order above, so
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750 *define* comes before *condition*, and so on.
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751
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752 Additionally, a tag is defined, tal:block, which is removed from output. Its
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753 content is not, but the tag itself is (so don't go using any tal:attributes
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754 commands on it). This is useful for making arbitrary blocks of HTML
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755 conditional or repeatable (very handy for repeating multiple table rows,
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756 which would othewise require an illegal tag placement to effect the repeat).
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758 The expressions you may use in the attibute values may be one of the following
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759 three forms:
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761 **Path Expressions** - eg. ``item/status/checklist``
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762 These are object attribute / item accesses. Roughly speaking, the path
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763 ``item/status/checklist`` is broken into parts ``item``, ``status``
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764 and ``checklist``. The ``item`` part is the root of the expression.
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765 We then look for a ``status`` attribute on ``item``, or failing that, a
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766 ``status`` item (as in ``item['status']``). If that
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767 fails, the path expression fails. When we get to the end, the object we're
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768 left with is evaluated to get a string - methods are called, objects are
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769 stringified. Path expressions may have an optional ``path:`` prefix, though
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770 they are the default expression type, so it's not necessary.
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771
1070
af0abadfda3a *** empty log message ***
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772 XXX | components of expressions
1083
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773
1070
af0abadfda3a *** empty log message ***
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774 XXX "nothing" and "default"
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775
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776 **String Expressions** - eg. ``string:hello ${user/name}``
1057
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777 These expressions are simple string interpolations (though they can be just
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778 plain strings with no interpolation if you want. The expression in the
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779 ``${ ... }`` is just a path expression as above.
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780
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781 **Python Expressions** - eg. ``python: 1+1``
1057
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782 These expressions give the full power of Python. All the "root level"
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783 variables are available, so ``python:item.status.checklist()`` would be
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784 equivalent to ``item/status/checklist``, assuming that ``checklist`` is
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785 a method.
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786
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787 Information available to templates
1098
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788 ----------------------------------
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789
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790 Note: this is implemented by roundup.cgi.templating.RoundupPageTemplate
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791
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792 The following variables are available to templates.
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793
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794 **context**
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795 The current context. This is either None, a
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796 `hyperdb class wrapper`_ or a `hyperdb item wrapper`_
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797 **request**
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798 Includes information about the current request, including:
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799 - the url
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800 - the current index information (``filterspec``, ``filter`` args,
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801 ``properties``, etc) parsed out of the form.
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802 - methods for easy filterspec link generation
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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803 - *user*, the current user item as an HTMLItem instance
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804 - *form*
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805 The current CGI form information as a mapping of form argument
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806 name to value
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807 **tracker**
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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808 The current tracker
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809 **db**
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810 The current database, through which db.config may be reached.
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811 **nothing**
1100
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812 This is a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then the
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813 tag (in the case of a tal:replace), its contents (in the case of
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814 tal:content) or some attributes (in the case of tal:attributes) will not
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815 appear in the the output. So for example::
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816
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817 <span tal:attributes="class nothing">Hello, World!</span>
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818
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819 would result in::
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820
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821 <span>Hello, World!</span>
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822
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823 **default**
1100
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824 Also a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then the
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825 existing HTML in the template will not be replaced or removed, it will
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826 remain. So::
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827
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828 <span tal:replace="default">Hello, World!</span>
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829
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830 would result in::
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831
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832 <span>Hello, World!</span>
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833
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834 **utils**
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835 This variable makes available some utility functions like batching.
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836
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837 The context variable
1098
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838 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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839
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840 The *context* variable is one of three things based on the current context
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841 (see `determining web context`_ for how we figure this out):
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842
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843 1. if we're looking at a "home" page, then it's None
1123
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844 2. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb class, it's a
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845 `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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846 3. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb item, it's a
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847 `hyperdb item wrapper`_.
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848
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849 If the context is not None, we can access the properties of the class or item.
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850 The only real difference between cases 2 and 3 above are:
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851
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852 1. the properties may have a real value behind them, and this will appear if
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853 the property is displayed through ``context/property`` or
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854 ``context/property/field``.
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855 2. the context's "id" property will be a false value in the second case, but
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856 a real, or true value in the third. Thus we can determine whether we're
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857 looking at a real item from the hyperdb by testing "context/id".
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858
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859 Hyperdb class wrapper
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860 :::::::::::::::::::::
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861
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862 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLClass class.
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863
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864 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb class. It is used primarily
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865 in both index view and new item views, but it's also usable anywhere else that
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866 you wish to access information about a class, or the items of a class, when
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867 you don't have a specific item of that class in mind.
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868
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869 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
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870 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name from
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871 the CGI form.
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872
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873 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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874
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875 =========== =============================================================
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876 Method Description
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877 =========== =============================================================
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878 properties return a `hyperdb property wrapper`_ for all of this class'
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879 properties.
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880 list lists all of the active (not retired) items in the class.
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881 csv return the items of this class as a chunk of CSV text.
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882 propnames lists the names of the properties of this class.
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883 filter lists of items from this class, filtered and sorted
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884 by the current *request* filterspec/filter/sort/group args
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885 classhelp display a link to a javascript popup containing this class'
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886 "help" template.
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887 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
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888 renderWith render this class with the given template.
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889 history returns 'New node - no history' :)
1136
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890 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current class?
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891 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current class?
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892 =========== =============================================================
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893
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894 Note that if you have a property of the same name as one of the above methods,
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895 you'll need to access it using a python "item access" expression. For example::
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896
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897 python:context['list']
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898
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899 will access the "list" property, rather than the list method.
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900
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901
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902 Hyperdb item wrapper
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903 ::::::::::::::::::::
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904
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905 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLItem class.
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906
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907 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb item.
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908
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909 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
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910 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name from
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911 the CGI form.
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912
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913 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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914
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915 =============== =============================================================
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916 Method Description
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917 =============== =============================================================
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918 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
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919 journal return the journal of the current item (**not implemented**)
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920 history render the journal of the current item as HTML
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921 renderQueryForm specific to the "query" class - render the search form for
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922 the query
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923 hasPermission specific to the "user" class - determine whether the user
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924 has a Permission
1136
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925 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current item?
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926 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current item?
1123
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927 =============== =============================================================
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928
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929
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930 Note that if you have a property of the same name as one of the above methods,
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931 you'll need to access it using a python "item access" expression. For example::
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932
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933 python:context['journal']
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934
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935 will access the "journal" property, rather than the journal method.
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936
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937
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938 Hyperdb property wrapper
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939 ::::::::::::::::::::::::
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940
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941 Note: this is implemented by subclasses roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLProperty
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942 class (HTMLStringProperty, HTMLNumberProperty, and so on).
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943
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944 This wrapper object provides access to a single property of a class. Its
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945 value may be either:
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946
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947 1. if accessed through a `hyperdb item wrapper`_, then it's a value from the
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948 hyperdb
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949 2. if access through a `hyperdb class wrapper`_, then it's a value from the
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950 CGI form
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951
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952
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953 The property wrapper has some useful attributes:
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954
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955 =============== =============================================================
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956 Attribute Description
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957 =============== =============================================================
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958 _name the name of the property
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959 _value the value of the property if any
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960 =============== =============================================================
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961
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962 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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963
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964 =========== =================================================================
1123
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965 Method Description
1144
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966 =========== =================================================================
1123
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967 plain render a "plain" representation of the property
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968 field render a form edit field for the property
1124
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969 stext only on String properties - render the value of the
1123
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970 property as StructuredText (requires the StructureText module
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971 to be installed separately)
1124
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972 multiline only on String properties - render a multiline form edit
1123
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973 field for the property
1124
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974 email only on String properties - render the value of the
1123
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975 property as an obscured email address
1144
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976 confirm only on Password properties - render a second form edit field for
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977 the property, used for confirmation that the user typed the
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978 password correctly. Generates a field with name "name:confirm".
1124
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979 reldate only on Date properties - render the interval between the
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980 date and now
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981 pretty only on Interval properties - render the interval in a
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982 pretty format (eg. "yesterday")
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983 menu only on Link and Multilink properties - render a form select
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984 list for this property
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985 reverse only on Multilink properties - produce a list of the linked
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986 items in reverse order
1144
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987 =========== =================================================================
1123
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988
1073
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989 The request variable
1098
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990 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1073
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991
1123
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992 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest class.
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993
1073
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994 The request variable is packed with information about the current request.
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995
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996 .. taken from roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest docstring
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997
1144
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998 =========== =================================================================
1073
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999 Variable Holds
1144
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1000 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1001 form the CGI form as a cgi.FieldStorage
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1002 env the CGI environment variables
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diff changeset
1003 url the current URL path for this request
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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parents: 1083
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1004 base the base URL for this tracker
1073
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1005 user a HTMLUser instance for this user
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1006 classname the current classname (possibly None)
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1007 template the current template (suffix, also possibly None)
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1008 form the current CGI form variables in a FieldStorage
1144
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1009 =========== =================================================================
1083
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1010
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1011 **Index page specific variables (indexing arguments)**
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1012
1144
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1013 =========== =================================================================
1083
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1014 Variable Holds
1144
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1015 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1016 columns dictionary of the columns to display in an index page
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1017 show a convenience access to columns - request/show/colname will
1098
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1018 be true if the columns should be displayed, false otherwise
1073
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1019 sort index sort column (direction, column name)
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parents: 1070
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1020 group index grouping property (direction, column name)
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parents: 1070
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1021 filter properties to filter the index on
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1022 filterspec values to filter the index on
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diff changeset
1023 search_text text to perform a full-text search on for an index
1144
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1024 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1025
1124
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1026 There are several methods available on the request variable:
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1027
1144
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1028 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1029 Method Description
1144
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1030 =============== =============================================================
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1031 description render a description of the request - handle for the page
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1032 title
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1033 indexargs_form render the current index args as form elements
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1034 indexargs_url render the current index args as a URL
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1035 base_javascript render some javascript that is used by other components of
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1036 the templating
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1037 batch run the current index args through a filter and return a
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1038 list of items (see `hyperdb item wrapper`_, and
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1039 `batching`_)
1144
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1040 =============== =============================================================
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1041
1142
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1042 The form variable
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1043 :::::::::::::::::
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1044
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1045 The form variable is a little special because it's actually a python
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1046 FieldStorage object. That means that you have two ways to access its
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1047 contents. For example, to look up the CGI form value for the variable
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1048 "name", use the path expression::
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1049
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1050 request/form/name/value
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1051
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1052 or the python expression::
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1053
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1054 python:request.form['name'].value
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1055
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1056 Note the "item" access used in the python case, and also note the explicit
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1057 "value" attribute we have to access. That's because the form variables are
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1058 stored as MiniFieldStorages. If there's more than one "name" value in
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1059 the form, then the above will break since ``request/form/name`` is actually a
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1060 *list* of MiniFieldStorages. So it's best to know beforehand what you're
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1061 dealing with.
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1062
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1063
1123
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1064 The db variable
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1065 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1066
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1067 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLDatabase class.
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1068
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1069 Allows access to all hyperdb classes as attributes of this variable. If you
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1070 want access to the "user" class, for example, you would use::
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1071
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1072 db/user
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diff changeset
1073 python:db.user
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1074
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1075 The access results in a `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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1076
1073
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parents: 1070
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1077
1124
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1078 The util variable
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1079 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1080
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1081 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.TemplatingUtils class.
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1082
1144
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parents: 1142
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1083 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1084 Method Description
1144
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parents: 1142
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1085 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1086 Batch return a batch object using the supplied list
1144
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parents: 1142
diff changeset
1087 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1088
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1089 Batching
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1090 ::::::::
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1091
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1092 Use Batch to turn a list of items, or item ids of a given class, into a series
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1093 of batches. Its usage is::
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1094
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1095 python:util.Batch(sequence, size, start, end=0, orphan=0, overlap=0)
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1096
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1097 or, to get the current index batch::
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1098
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1099 request/batch
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1100
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1101 The parameters are:
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1102
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1103 ========= ==================================================================
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1104 Parameter Usage
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1105 ========= ==================================================================
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1106 sequence a list of HTMLItems
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1107 size how big to make the sequence.
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1108 start where to start (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1109 end where to end (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1110 orphan if the next batch would contain less items than this
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1111 value, then it is combined with this batch
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1112 overlap the number of items shared between adjacent batches
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1113 ========= ==================================================================
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1114
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1115 All of the parameters are assigned as attributes on the batch object. In
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1116 addition, it has several more attributes:
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1117
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1118 =============== ============================================================
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1119 Attribute Description
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1120 =============== ============================================================
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1121 start indicates the start index of the batch. *Note: unlike the
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1122 argument, is a 1-based index (I know, lame)*
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1123 first indicates the start index of the batch *as a 0-based
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1124 index*
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1125 length the actual number of elements in the batch
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1126 sequence_length the length of the original, unbatched, sequence.
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1127 =============== ============================================================
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1128
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1129 And several methods:
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1130
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1131 =============== ============================================================
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1132 Method Description
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1133 =============== ============================================================
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1134 previous returns a new Batch with the previous batch settings
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1135 next returns a new Batch with the next batch settings
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1136 propchanged detect if the named property changed on the current item
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1137 when compared to the last item
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1138 =============== ============================================================
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1139
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1140 An example of batching::
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1141
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1142 <table class="otherinfo">
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1143 <tr><th colspan="4" class="header">Existing Keywords</th></tr>
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1144 <tr tal:define="keywords db/keyword/list"
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1145 tal:repeat="start python:range(0, len(keywords), 4)">
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1146 <td tal:define="batch python:utils.Batch(keywords, 4, start)"
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1147 tal:repeat="keyword batch" tal:content="keyword/name">keyword here</td>
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1148 </tr>
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1149 </table>
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1150
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1151 ... which will produce a table with four columns containing the items of the
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1152 "keyword" class (well, their "name" anyway).
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1153
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1154 Displaying Properties
1098
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1155 ---------------------
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1156
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1157 Properties appear in the user interface in three contexts: in indices, in
1057
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parents: 1003
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1158 editors, and as search arguments.
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1159 For each type of property, there are several display possibilities.
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1160 For example, in an index view, a string property may just be
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1161 printed as a plain string, but in an editor view, that property may be
659
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1162 displayed in an editable field.
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1163
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1164
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1165 Index Views
1098
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1166 -----------
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1167
1074
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1168 This is one of the class context views. It is also the default view for
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1169 classes. The template used is "*classname*.index".
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1170
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1171 Index View Specifiers
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1172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1173
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1174 An index view specifier (URL fragment) looks like this (whitespace has been
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1175 added for clarity)::
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1176
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1177 /issue?status=unread,in-progress,resolved&
1073
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1178 topic=security,ui&
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1179 :group=+priority&
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1180 :sort==activity&
1073
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1181 :filters=status,topic&
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1182 :columns=title,status,fixer
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1183
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1184 The index view is determined by two parts of the specifier: the layout part and
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1185 the filter part. The layout part consists of the query parameters that begin
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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1186 with colons, and it determines the way that the properties of selected items
659
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1187 are displayed. The filter part consists of all the other query parameters, and
1089
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1188 it determines the criteria by which items are selected for display.
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1189 The filter part is interactively manipulated with the form widgets displayed in
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1190 the filter section. The layout part is interactively manipulated by clicking on
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1191 the column headings in the table.
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1192
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1193 The filter part selects the union of the sets of items with values matching any
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1194 specified Link properties and the intersection of the sets of items with values
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1195 matching any specified Multilink properties.
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1196
1089
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1197 The example specifies an index of "issue" items. Only items with a "status" of
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1198 either "unread" or "in-progres" or "resolved" are displayed, and only items
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1199 with "topic" values including both "security" and "ui" are displayed. The items
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1200 are grouped by priority, arranged in ascending order; and within groups, sorted
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1201 by activity, arranged in descending order. The filter section shows filters for
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1202 the "status" and "topic" properties, and the table includes columns for the
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1203 "title", "status", and "fixer" properties.
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1204
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1205 Filtering of indexes
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1206 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1207
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1208 TODO
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1209
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1210 Searching Views
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1211 ---------------
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1212
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1213 This is one of the class context views. The template used is typically
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1214 "*classname*.search".
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1215
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1216 TODO
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1217
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1218 Item Views
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1219 ----------
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1220
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1221 The basic view of a hyperdb item is provided by the "*classname*.item"
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1222 template. It generally has three sections; an "editor", a "spool" and a
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1223 "history" section.
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1224
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1225
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1226
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1227 Editor Section
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1228 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1229
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1230 The editor section is used to manipulate the item - it may be a
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1231 static display if the user doesn't have permission to edit the item.
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1232
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1233 Here's an example of a basic editor template (this is the default "classic"
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1234 template issue item edit form - from the "issue.item" template)::
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1235
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1236 <table class="form">
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1237 <tr>
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1238 <th nowrap>Title</th>
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1239 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure python:context.title.field(size=60)">title</td>
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1240 </tr>
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1241
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1242 <tr>
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1243 <th nowrap>Priority</th>
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1244 <td tal:content="structure context/priority/menu">priority</td>
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1245 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1246 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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1247 </tr>
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1248
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1249 <tr>
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1250 <th nowrap>Superseder</th>
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1251 <td>
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1252 <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.field(showid=1, size=20)" />
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1253 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.issue.classhelp('id,title')" />
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1254 <span tal:condition="context/superseder">
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1255 <br>View: <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.link(showid=1)" />
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1256 </span>
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1257 </td>
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1258 <th nowrap>Nosy List</th>
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1259 <td>
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1260 <span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />
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1261 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.user.classhelp('username,realname,address,phone')" />
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1262 </td>
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1263 </tr>
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1264
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1265 <tr>
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1266 <th nowrap>Assigned To</th>
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1267 <td tal:content="structure context/assignedto/menu">
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1268 assignedto menu
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1269 </td>
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1270 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1271 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1272 </tr>
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1273
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1274 <tr>
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1275 <th nowrap>Change Note</th>
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1276 <td colspan=3>
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1277 <textarea name=":note" wrap="hard" rows="5" cols="60"></textarea>
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1278 </td>
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1279 </tr>
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1280
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1281 <tr>
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1282 <th nowrap>File</th>
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1283 <td colspan=3><input type="file" name=":file" size="40"></td>
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1284 </tr>
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1285
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1286 <tr>
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1287 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1288 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1289 submit button will go here
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1290 </td>
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1291 </tr>
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1292 </table>
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1293
673
604c84696461 link() htmltemplate function now has a "showid" option for links & multilinks.
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1294
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1295 When a change is submitted, the system automatically generates a message
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1296 describing the changed properties. As shown in the example, the editor
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1297 template can use the ":note" and ":file" fields, which are added to the
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1298 standard change note message generated by Roundup.
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1299
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1300 Spool Section
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1301 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1302
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1303 The spool section lists related information like the messages and files of
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1304 an issue.
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1305
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1306 TODO
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1307
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1308
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1309 History Section
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1310 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1311
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1312 The final section displayed is the history of the item - its database journal.
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1313 This is generally generated with the template::
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1314
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1315 <tal:block tal:replace="structure context/history" />
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1316
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1317 *To be done:*
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1318
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1319 *The actual history entries of the item may be accessed for manual templating
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1320 through the "journal" method of the item*::
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1321
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1322 <tal:block tal:repeat="entry context/journal">
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1323 a journal entry
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1324 </tal:block>
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1325
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1326 *where each journal entry is an HTMLJournalEntry.*
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1327
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1328 Defining new web actions
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1329 ------------------------
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1330
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1331 XXX
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1332
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1333
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1334 Access Controls
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1335 ===============
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1336
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1337 A set of Permissions are built in to the security module by default:
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1338
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1339 - Edit (everything)
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1340 - View (everything)
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1341
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1342 The default interfaces define:
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1343
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1344 - Web Registration
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1345 - Web Access
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1346 - Web Roles
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1347 - Email Registration
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1348 - Email Access
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1349
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1350 These are hooked into the default Roles:
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1351
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1352 - Admin (Edit everything, View everything, Web Roles)
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1353 - User (Web Access, Email Access)
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1354 - Anonymous (Web Registration, Email Registration)
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1355
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1356 And finally, the "admin" user gets the "Admin" Role, and the "anonymous" user
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1357 gets the "Anonymous" assigned when the database is initialised on installation.
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1358 The two default schemas then define:
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1359
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1360 - Edit issue, View issue (both)
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1361 - Edit file, View file (both)
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1362 - Edit msg, View msg (both)
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1363 - Edit support, View support (extended only)
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1364
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1365 and assign those Permissions to the "User" Role. New users are assigned the
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1366 Roles defined in the config file as:
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1367
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1368 - NEW_WEB_USER_ROLES
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1369 - NEW_EMAIL_USER_ROLES
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1370
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1371 You may alter the configuration variables to change the Role that new web or
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1372 email users get, for example to not give them access to the web interface if
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1373 they register through email.
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1375 You may use the ``roundup-admin`` "``security``" command to display the
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1376 current Role and Permission configuration in your tracker.
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1378 Adding a new Permission
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1379 -----------------------
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1380
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1381 When adding a new Permission, you will need to:
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1382
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1383 1. add it to your tracker's dbinit so it is created
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1384 2. enable it for the Roles that should have it (verify with
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1385 "``roundup-admin security``")
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1386 3. add it to the relevant HTML interface templates
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1387 4. add it to the appropriate xxxPermission methods on in your tracker
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1388 interfaces module
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1389
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1390
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1391
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1392 Examples
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1393 ========
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1394
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1395 Adding a new field to a roundup schema
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1396 --------------------------------------
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1397
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1398 This example shows how to add a new constrained property (ie. a selection of
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1399 distinct values) to your tracker.
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1400
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1401 Introduction
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1402 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
1098
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1403
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1404 To make the classic schema of roundup useful as a todo tracking system
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1405 for a group of systems administrators, it needed an extra data field
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1406 per issue: a category.
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1407
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1408 This would let sysads quickly list all todos in their particular
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1409 area of interest without having to do complex queries, and without
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1410 relying on the spelling capabilities of other sysads (a losing
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1411 proposition at best).
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1412
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1413 Adding a field to the database
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1414 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1098
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1415
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1416 This is the easiest part of the change. The category would just be a plain
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1417 string, nothing fancy. To change what is in the database you need to add
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1418 some lines to the ``open()`` function in ``dbinit.py``::
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1419
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1420 category = Class(db, "category", name=String())
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1421 category.setkey("name")
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1422
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1423 Here we are setting up a chunk of the database which we are calling
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1424 "category". It contains a string, which we are refering to as "name" for
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1425 lack of a more imaginative title. Then we are setting the key of this chunk
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1426 of the database to be that "name". This is equivalent to an index for
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1427 database types. This also means that there can only be one category with a
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1428 given name.
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1429
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1430 Adding the above lines allows us to create categories, but they're not tied
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1431 to the issues that we are going to be creating. It's just a list of categories
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1432 off on its own, which isn't much use. We need to link it in with the issues.
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1433 To do that, find the lines in the ``open()`` function in ``dbinit.py`` which
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1434 set up the "issue" class, and then add a link to the category::
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1435
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1436 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", ... , category=Multilink("category"), ... )
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1437
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1438 The Multilink() means that each issue can have many categories. If you were
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1439 adding something with a more one to one relationship use Link() instead.
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1440
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1441 That is all you need to do to change the schema. The rest of the effort is
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1442 fiddling around so you can actually use the new category.
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1443
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1444 Setting up security on the new objects
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1445 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1446
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1447 By default only the admin user can look at and change objects. This doesn't
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1448 suit us, as we want any user to be able to create new categories as
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1449 required, and obviously everyone needs to be able to view the categories of
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1450 issues for it to be useful.
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1451
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1452 We therefore need to change the security of the category objects. This is
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1453 also done in the ``open()`` function of ``dbinit.py``.
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1454
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1455 There are currently two loops which set up permissions and then assign them
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1456 to various roles. Simply add the new "category" to both lists::
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1457
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1458 # new permissions for this schema
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1459 for cl in 'issue', 'file', 'msg', 'user', 'category':
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1460 db.security.addPermission(name="Edit", klass=cl,
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1461 description="User is allowed to edit "+cl)
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1462 db.security.addPermission(name="View", klass=cl,
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1463 description="User is allowed to access "+cl)
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1464
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1465 # Assign the access and edit permissions for issue, file and message
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1466 # to regular users now
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1467 for cl in 'issue', 'file', 'msg', 'category':
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1468 p = db.security.getPermission('View', cl)
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1469 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1470 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', cl)
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1471 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1472
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1473 So you are in effect doing the following::
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1474
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1475 db.security.addPermission(name="Edit", klass='category',
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1476 description="User is allowed to edit "+'category')
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1477 db.security.addPermission(name="View", klass='category',
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1478 description="User is allowed to access "+'category')
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1479
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1480 which is creating two permission types; that of editing and viewing
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1481 "category" objects respectively. Then the following lines assign those new
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1482 permissions to the "User" role, so that normal users can view and edit
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1483 "category" objects::
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1484
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1485 p = db.security.getPermission('View', 'category')
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1486 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1487
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1488 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', 'category')
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1489 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1490
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1491 This is all the work that needs to be done for the database. It will store
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1492 categories, and let users view and edit them. Now on to the interface
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1493 stuff.
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1494
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1495 Changing the web left hand frame
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1496 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1497
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1498 We need to give the users the ability to create new categories, and the
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1499 place to put the link to this functionality is in the left hand function
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1500 bar, under the "Issues" area. The file that defines how this area looks is
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1501 ``html/page``, which is what we are going to be editing next.
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1502
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1503 If you look at this file you can see that it contains a lot of "classblock"
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1504 sections which are chunks of HTML that will be included or excluded in the
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1505 output depending on whether the condition in the classblock is met. Under
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1506 the end of the classblock for issue is where we are going to add the
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1507 category code::
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1508
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1509 <p class="classblock"
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1510 tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'category')">
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1511 <b>Categories</b><br>
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1512 <a tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit', 'category')"
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1513 href="category?:template=item">New Category<br></a>
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1514 </p>
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1515
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1516 The first two lines is the classblock definition, which sets up a condition
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1517 that only users who have "View" permission to the "category" object will
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1518 have this section included in their output. Next comes a plain "Categories"
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1519 header in bold. Everyone who can view categories will get that.
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1520
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1521 Next comes the link to the editing area of categories. This link will only
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1522 appear if the condition is matched: that condition being that the user has
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1523 "Edit" permissions for the "category" objects. If they do have permission
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1524 then they will get a link to another page which will let the user add new
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1525 categories.
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1526
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1527 Note that if you have permission to view but not edit categories then all
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1528 you will see is a "Categories" header with nothing underneath it. This is
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1529 obviously not very good interface design, but will do for now. I just claim
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1530 that it is so I can add more links in this section later on. However to fix
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1531 the problem you could change the condition in the classblock statement, so
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1532 that only users with "Edit" permission would see the "Categories" stuff.
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1533
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1534 Setting up a page to edit categories
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1535 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1536
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1537 We defined code in the previous section which let users with the
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1538 appropriate permissions see a link to a page which would let them edit
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1539 conditions. Now we have to write that page.
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1540
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1541 The link was for the item template for the category object. This translates
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1542 into the system looking for a file called ``category.item`` in the ``html``
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1543 tracker directory. This is the file that we are going to write now.
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1544
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1545 First we add an id tag in a comment which doesn't affect the outcome
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1546 of the code at all but is essential for managing the changes to this
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1547 file. It is useful for debugging however, if you load a page in a
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1548 browser and look at the page source, you can see which sections come
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1549 from which files by looking for these comments::
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1550
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1551 <!-- dollarId: category.item,v 1.3 2002/05/22 00:32:34 me Exp dollar-->
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1552
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1553 Next we need to setup up a standard HTML form, which is the whole
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1554 purpose of this file. We link to some handy javascript which sends the form
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1555 through only once. This is to stop users hitting the send button
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1556 multiple times when they are impatient and thus having the form sent
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1557 multiple times::
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1558
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1559 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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1560 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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1561
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1562 Next we define some code which sets up the minimum list of fields that we
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1563 require the user to enter. There will be only one field, that of "name", so
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1564 they user better put something in it otherwise the whole form is pointless::
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1565
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1566 <input type="hidden" name=":required" value="name">
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1567
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1568 To get everything to line up properly we will put everything in a table,
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1569 and put a nice big header on it so the user has an idea what is happening::
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1570
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1571 <table class="form">
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1572 <tr><th class="header" colspan=2>Category</th></tr>
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1574 Next we need the actual field that the user is going to enter the new
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1575 category. The "context.name.field(size=60)" bit tells roundup to generate a
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1576 normal HTML field of size 60, and the contents of that field will be the
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1577 "name" variable of the current context (which is "category"). The upshot of
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1578 this is that when the user types something in to the form, a new category
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1579 will be created with that name::
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1580
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1581 <tr>
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1582 <th nowrap>Name</th>
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1583 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">name</td>
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1584 </tr>
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1585
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1586 Finally a submit button so that the user can submit the new category::
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1587
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1588 <tr>
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1589 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1590 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1591 submit button will go here
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1592 </td>
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1593 </tr>
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1594
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1595 So putting it all together, and closing the table and form we get::
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1596
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1597 <!-- dollarId: category.item,v 1.3 2002/05/22 00:32:34 richard Exp dollar-->
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1598
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1599 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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1600 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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1601
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1602 <input type="hidden" name=":required" value="name">
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1603
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1604 <table class="form">
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1605 <tr><th class="header" colspan=2>Category</th></tr>
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1607 <tr>
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1608 <th nowrap>Name</th>
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1609 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">name</td>
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1610 </tr>
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1611
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1612 <tr>
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1613 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1614 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1615 submit button will go here
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1616 </td>
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1617 </tr>
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1618 </table>
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1619 </form>
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1620
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1621 This is quite a lot to just ask the user one simple question, but
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1622 there is a lot of setup for basically one line (the form line) to do
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1623 its work. To add another field to "category" would involve one more line
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1624 (well maybe a few extra to get the formatting correct).
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1625
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1626 Adding the category to the issue
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1627 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1628
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1629 We now have the ability to create issues to our hearts content, but
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1630 that is pointless unless we can assign categories to issues. Just like
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1631 the ``html/category.item`` file was used to define how to add a new
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1632 category, the ``html/issue.item`` is used to define how a new issue is
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1633 created.
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1634
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1635 Just like ``category.issue`` this file defines a form which has a table to lay
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1636 things out. It doesn't matter where in the table we add new stuff,
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1637 it is entirely up to your sense of aesthetics::
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1638
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1639 <th nowrap>Category</th>
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1640 <td><span tal:replace="structure context/category/field" />
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1641 <span tal:replace="structure db/category/classhelp" />
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1642 </td>
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1643
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1644 First we define a nice header so that the user knows what the next section
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1645 is, then the middle line does what we are most interested in. This
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1646 ``context/category/field`` gets replaced with a field which contains the
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1647 category in the current context (the current context being the new issue).
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1648
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1649 The classhelp lines generate a link (labelled "list") to a popup window
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1650 which contains the list of currently known categories.
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1651
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1652 Searching on categories
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1653 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1654
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1655 We can add categories, and create issues with categories. The next obvious
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1656 thing that we would like to be would be to search issues based on their
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1657 category, so that any one working on the web server could look at all
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1658 issues in the category "Web" for example.
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1659
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1660 If you look in the html/page file and look for the "Search Issues" you will
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1661 see that it looks something like ``<a href="issue?:template=search">Search
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1662 Issues</a>`` which shows us that when you click on "Search Issues" it will
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1663 be looking for a ``issue.search`` file to display. So that is indeed the file
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1664 that we are going to change.
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1665
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1666 If you look at this file it should be starting to seem familiar. It is a
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1667 simple HTML form using a table to define structure. You can add the new
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1668 category search code anywhere you like within that form::
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1669
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1670 <tr>
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1671 <th>Category:</th>
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1672 <td>
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1673 <select name="category">
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1674 <option value="">don't care</option>
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1675 <option value="">------------</option>
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1676 <option tal:repeat="s db/category/list" tal:attributes="value s/name"
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1677 tal:content="s/name">category to filter on</option>
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1678 </select>
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1679 </td>
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1680 <td><input type="checkbox" name=":columns" value="category" checked></td>
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1681 <td><input type="radio" name=":sort" value="category"></td>
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1682 <td><input type="radio" name=":group" value="category"></td>
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1683 </tr>
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1684
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1685 Most of this is straightforward to anyone who knows HTML. It is just
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1686 setting up a select list followed by a checkbox and a couple of radio
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1687 buttons.
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1688
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1689 The ``tal:repeat`` part repeats the tag for every item in the "category"
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1690 table and setting "s" to be each category in turn.
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1691
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1692 The ``tal:attributes`` part is setting up the ``value=`` part of the option tag
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1693 to be the name part of "s" which is the current category in the loop.
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1694
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1695 The ``tal:content`` part is setting the contents of the option tag to be the
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1696 name part of "s" again. For objects more complex than category, obviously
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1697 you would put an id in the value, and the descriptive part in the content;
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1698 but for category they are the same.
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1699
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1700 Adding category to the default view
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1701 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1702
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1703 We can now add categories, add issues with categories, and search issues
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1704 based on categories. This is everything that we need to do, however there
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1705 is some more icing that we would like. I think the category of an issue is
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1706 important enough that it should be displayed by default when listing all
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1707 the issues.
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1708
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1709 Unfortunately, this is a bit less obvious than the previous steps. The code
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1710 defining how the issues look is in ``html/issue.index``. This is a large table
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1711 with a form down the bottom for redisplaying and so forth.
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1713 Firstly we need to add an appropriate header to the start of the table::
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1714
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1715 <th tal:condition="request/show/category">Category</th>
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1716
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1717 The condition part of this statement is so that if the user has selected
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1718 not to see the Category column then they won't.
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1719
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1720 The rest of the table is a loop which will go through every issue that
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1721 matches the display criteria. The loop variable is "i" - which means that
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1722 every issue gets assigned to "i" in turn.
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1723
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1724 The new part of code to display the category will look like this::
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1725
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1726 <td tal:condition="request/show/category" tal:content="i/category"></td>
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1727
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1728 The condition is the same as above: only display the condition when the
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1729 user hasn't asked for it to be hidden. The next part is to set the content
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1730 of the cell to be the category part of "i" - the current issue.
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1731
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1732 Finally we have to edit ``html/page`` again. This time to tell it that when the
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1733 user clicks on "Unnasigned Issues" or "All Issues" that the category should
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1734 be displayed. If you scroll down the page file, you can see the links with
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1735 lots of options. The option that we are interested in is the ``:columns=`` one
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1736 which tells roundup which fields of the issue to display. Simply add
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1737 "category" to that list and it all should work.
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1738
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1739
1100
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1740 Adding in state transition control
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1741 ----------------------------------
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1742
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1743 Sometimes tracker admins want to control the states that users may move issues
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1744 to.
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1745
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1746 1. add a Multilink property to the status class::
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1747
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1748 stat = Class(db, "status", ... , transitions=Multilink('status'), ...)
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1749
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1750 and then edit the statuses already created through the web using the
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1751 generic class list / CSV editor.
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1752
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1753 2. add an auditor module ``checktransition.py`` in your tracker's
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1754 ``detectors`` directory::
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1755
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1756 def checktransition(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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1757 ''' Check that the desired transition is valid for the "status"
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1758 property.
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1759 '''
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1760 if not newvalues.has_key('status'):
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1761 return
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1762 current = cl.get(nodeid, 'status')
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1763 new = newvalues['status']
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1764 if new == current:
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1765 return
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1766 ok = db.status.get(current, 'transitions')
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1767 if new not in ok:
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1768 raise ValueError, 'Status not allowed to move from "%s" to "%s"'%(
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1769 db.status.get(current, 'name'), db.status.get(new, 'name'))
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1770
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1771 def init(db):
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1772 db.issue.audit('set', checktransition)
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1773
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1774 3. in the ``issue.item`` template, change the status editing bit from::
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1775
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1776 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1777 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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1778
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1779 to::
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1780
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1781 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1782 <td>
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1783 <select tal:condition="context/id" name="status">
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1784 <tal:block tal:define="ok context/status/transitions"
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1785 tal:repeat="state db/status/list">
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1786 <option tal:condition="python:state.id in ok"
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1787 tal:attributes="value state/id;
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1788 selected python:state.id == context.status.id"
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1789 tal:content="state/name"></option>
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1790 </tal:block>
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1791 </select>
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1792 <tal:block tal:condition="not:context/id"
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1793 tal:replace="structure context/status/menu" />
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1794 </td>
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1795
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1796 which displays only the allowed status to transition to.
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1797
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1798
1133
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1799 Displaying entire message contents in the issue display
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1800 -------------------------------------------------------
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1801
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1802 Alter the issue.item template section for messages to::
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1803
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1804 <table class="messages" tal:condition="context/messages">
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1805 <tr><th colspan=3 class="header">Messages</th></tr>
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1806 <tal:block tal:repeat="msg context/messages/reverse">
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1807 <tr>
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1808 <th><a tal:attributes="href string:msg${msg/id}"
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1809 tal:content="string:msg${msg/id}"></a></th>
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1810 <th tal:content="string:Author: ${msg/author}">author</th>
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1811 <th tal:content="string:Date: ${msg/date}">date</th>
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1812 </tr>
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1813 <tr>
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1814 <td colspan="3" class="content">
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1815 <pre tal:content="msg/content">content</pre>
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1816 </td>
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1817 </tr>
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1818 </tal:block>
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1819 </table>
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1820
1147
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1821 Restricting the list of users that are assignable to a task
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1822 -----------------------------------------------------------
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1823
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1824 1. create a new Role, say "Developer"::
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1825
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1826 db.security.addRole(name='Developer', description='A developer')
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1827
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1828 2. create a new Permission, say "Fixer", specific to "issue"::
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1829
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1830 p = db.security.addPermission(name='Fixer', klass='issue',
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1831 description='User is allowed to be assigned to fix issues')
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1832
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1833 3. assign the new Permission to your "Developer" Role::
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1834
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1835 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Developer', p)
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1836
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1837 4. use the new Permission in restricting the "assignedto" list in the issue
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1838 item edit page::
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1839
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1840 <select name="assignedto">
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1841 <option value="-1">- no selection -</option>
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1842 <tal:block tal:repeat="user db/user/list">
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1843 <option tal:condition="python:user.hasPermission('Fixer', context.classname)"
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1844 tal:attributes="value user/id;
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1845 selected python:user.id == context.assignedto"
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1846 tal:content="user/realname"></option>
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1847 </tal:block>
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1848 </select>
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1849
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1850 For extra security, you may wish to overload the hasEditItemPermission method
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1851 on your tracker's interfaces.Client class to enforce the Permission
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1852 requirement::
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1853
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1854 XXX
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1855
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1856
1098
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1857 -------------------
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1858
686
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1859 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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1860
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1861 .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html
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1862

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