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1 ===================
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2 Customising Roundup
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3 ===================
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5 :Version: 1.135.2.1
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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 Before you get too far, it's probably worth having a quick read of the Roundup
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17 `design documentation`_.
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19 Customisation of Roundup can take one of six forms:
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21 1. `tracker configuration`_ file changes
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22 2. database, or `tracker schema`_ changes
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23 3. "definition" class `database content`_ changes
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24 4. behavioural changes, through detectors_
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25 5. `security / access controls`_
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26 6. change the `web interface`_
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28 The third case is special because it takes two distinctly different forms
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29 depending upon whether the tracker has been initialised or not. The other two
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30 may be done at any time, before or after tracker initialisation. Yes, this
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31 includes adding or removing properties from classes.
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34 Trackers in a Nutshell
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35 ======================
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37 Trackers have the following structure:
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39 =================== ========================================================
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40 Tracker File Description
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42 config.py Holds the basic `tracker configuration`_
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43 dbinit.py Holds the `tracker schema`_
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44 interfaces.py Defines the Web and E-Mail interfaces for the tracker
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45 select_db.py Selects the database back-end for the tracker
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46 db/ Holds the tracker's database
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47 db/files/ Holds the tracker's upload files and messages
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48 detectors/ Auditors and reactors for this tracker
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49 html/ Web interface templates, images and style sheets
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52 Tracker Configuration
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55 The ``config.py`` located in your tracker home contains the basic
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56 configuration for the web and e-mail components of roundup's interfaces.
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57 As the name suggests, this file is a Python module. This means that any
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58 valid python expression may be used in the file. Mostly though, you'll
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59 be setting the configuration variables to string values. Python string
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60 values must be quoted with either single or double quotes::
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62 'this is a string'
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63 "this is also a string - use it when the value has 'single quotes'"
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64 this is not a string - it's not quoted
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66 Python strings may use formatting that's almost identical to C string
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67 formatting. The ``%`` operator is used to perform the formatting, like
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68 so::
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70 'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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72 this will create a string ``'roundup-admin@tracker.domain.example'`` if
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73 MAIL_DOMAIN is set to ``'tracker.domain.example'``.
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75 You'll also note some values are set to::
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77 os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')
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79 or similar. This creates a new string which holds the path to the
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81 convenience so if the TRACKER_HOME changes you don't have to edit
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82 multiple valoues.
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84 The configuration variables available are:
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86 **TRACKER_HOME** - ``os.path.split(__file__)[0]``
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87 The tracker home directory. The above default code will automatically
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88 determine the tracker home for you, so you can just leave it alone.
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90 **MAILHOST** - ``'localhost'``
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91 The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send e-mail.
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93 **MAILUSER** - ``()``
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94 If your SMTP mail host requires a username and password for access, then
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95 specify them here. eg. ``MAILUSER = ('username', 'password')``
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97 **MAILHOST_TLS** - ``'no'``
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98 If your SMTP mail host provides or requires TLS (Transport Layer
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99 Security) then set ``MAILHOST_TLS = 'yes'``
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101 **MAILHOST_TLS_KEYFILE** - ``''``
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102 If you're using TLS, you may also set MAILHOST_TLS_KEYFILE to the name of
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103 a PEM formatted file that contains your private key.
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105 **MAILHOST_TLS_CERTFILE** - ``''``
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106 If you're using TLS and have specified a MAILHOST_TLS_KEYFILE, you may
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107 also set MAILHOST_TLS_CERTFILE to the name of a PEM formatted certificate
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108 chain file.
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110 **MAIL_DOMAIN** - ``'tracker.domain.example'``
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111 The domain name used for email addresses.
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113 **DATABASE** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')``
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114 This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in. By default
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115 it is in the tracker home.
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117 **TEMPLATES** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')``
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118 This is the directory that the HTML templates reside in. By default they are
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119 in the tracker home.
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121 **STATIC_FILES** - e.g. ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'files')``
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122 This *optional* variable defines the directory that static files are served
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123 from (files with the URL ``/@@file/<filename>``). If this is not defined,
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124 then static files are served from the TEMPLATES directory.
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126 **TRACKER_NAME** - ``'Roundup issue tracker'``
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127 A descriptive name for your roundup tracker. This is sent out in e-mails and
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130 **TRACKER_EMAIL** - ``'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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131 The email address that e-mail sent to roundup should go to. Think of it as the
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132 tracker's personal e-mail address.
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134 **TRACKER_WEB** - ``'http://tracker.example/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/bugs/'``
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135 The web address that the tracker is viewable at. This will be included in
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136 information sent to users of the tracker. The URL **must** include the
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137 cgi-bin part or anything else that is required to get to the home page of
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138 the tracker. You **must** include a trailing '/' in the URL.
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140 **ADMIN_EMAIL** - ``'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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141 The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into trouble.
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142
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143 **EMAIL_FROM_TAG** - ``''``
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144 Additional text to include in the "name" part of the ``From:`` address used
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145 in nosy messages. If the sending user is "Foo Bar", the ``From:`` line is
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146 usually::
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148 "Foo Bar" <issue_tracker@tracker.example>
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152 "Foo Bar EMAIL_FROM_TAG" <issue_tracker@tracker.example>
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154 **ERROR_MESSAGES_TO** - ``'user'``, ``'dispatcher'`` or ``'both'``
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155 Sends error messages to the dispatcher, user, or both. It will use the
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156 ``DISPATCHER_EMAIL`` address if set, otherwise it'll use the
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157 ``ADMIN_EMAIL`` address.
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158
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160 The email address that Roundup will issue all error messages to. This is
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162 a central user.
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164 **MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or``'no'``
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165 Send nosy messages to the author of the message?
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166 If 'new' is used, then the author will only be sent the message when the
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167 message creates a new issue. If 'yes' then the author will always be sent
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168 a copy of the message they wrote.
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169
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170 **ADD_AUTHOR_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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171 Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list automatically?
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172 If ``'new'`` is used, then the author will only be added when a message
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173 creates a new issue. If ``'yes'``, then the author will be added on followups
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175
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176 **ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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177 Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy list?
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178 If ``'new'`` is used, then the recipients will only be added when a message
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179 creates a new issue. If ``'yes'``, then the recipients will be added on
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180 followups too. If ``'no'``, they're never added to the nosy.
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181
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182 **EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION** - ``'top'``, ``'bottom'`` or ``'none'``
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183 Where to place the email signature in messages that Roundup generates.
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184
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185 **EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT** - ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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186 Keep email citations. Citations are the part of e-mail which the sender has
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187 quoted in their reply to previous e-mail with ``>`` or ``|`` characters at
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188 the start of the line.
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189
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190 **EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED** - ``'no'``
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191 Preserve the email body as is. Enabiling this will cause the entire message
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192 body to be stored, including all citations, signatures and Outlook-quoted
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193 sections (ie. "Original Message" blocks). It should be either ``'yes'``
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194 or ``'no'``.
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195
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196 **MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS** - ``'issue'`` or ``''``
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197 Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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198 subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it blank.
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199
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200 **HTML_VERSION** - ``'html4'`` or ``'xhtml'``
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201 HTML version to generate. The templates are html4 by default. If you
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202 wish to make them xhtml, then you'll need to change this var to 'xhtml'
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203 too so all auto-generated HTML is compliant.
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204
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205 **EMAIL_CHARSET** - ``utf-8`` (or ``iso-8859-1`` for Eudora users)
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206 Character set to encode email headers with. We use utf-8 by default, as
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207 it's the most flexible. Some mail readers (eg. Eudora) can't cope with
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208 that, so you might need to specify a more limited character set (eg.
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209 'iso-8859-1'.
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210
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211 **DEFAULT_TIMEZONE** - ``0``
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212 Numeric hour timezone offest to be used when displaying local times.
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213 The default timezone is used when users do not choose their own in
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214 their settings.
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215
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216 The default config.py is given below - as you
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217 can see, the MAIL_DOMAIN must be edited before any interaction with the
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218 tracker is attempted.::
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219
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220 # roundup home is this package's directory
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221 TRACKER_HOME=os.path.split(__file__)[0]
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222
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223 # The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send mail
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224 MAILHOST = 'localhost'
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225
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226 # The domain name used for email addresses.
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227 MAIL_DOMAIN = 'your.tracker.email.domain.example'
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228
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229 # This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in
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230 DATABASE = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')
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231
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232 # This is the directory that the HTML templates reside in
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233 TEMPLATES = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')
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234
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235 # Optional: the directory that static files are served from (files with
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236 # the URL /@@file/<filename>). If this is not defined, then static files
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237 # are served from the TEMPLATES directory.
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238 # STATIC_FILES = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'files')
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239
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240 # A descriptive name for your roundup tracker
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241 TRACKER_NAME = 'Roundup issue tracker'
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242
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243 # The email address that mail to roundup should go to
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244 TRACKER_EMAIL = 'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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246 # The web address that the tracker is viewable at. This will be
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247 # included in information sent to users of the tracker. The URL MUST
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248 # include the cgi-bin part or anything else that is required to get
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249 # to the home page of the tracker. You MUST include a trailing '/'
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250 # in the URL.
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251 TRACKER_WEB = 'http://tracker.example/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/bugs/'
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252
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253 # The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into
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254 # trouble
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255 ADMIN_EMAIL = 'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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256
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257 # Additional text to include in the "name" part of the From: address
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258 # used in nosy messages. If the sending user is "Foo Bar", the From:
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259 # line is usually: "Foo Bar" <issue_tracker@tracker.example>
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260 # the EMAIL_FROM_TAG goes inside the "Foo Bar" quotes like so:
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261 # "Foo Bar EMAIL_FROM_TAG" <issue_tracker@tracker.example>
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262 EMAIL_FROM_TAG = ""
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263
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264 # Send nosy messages to the author of the message
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265 MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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266
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267 # Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list
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268 # automatically? If 'new' is used, then the author will only be
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269 # added when a message creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the
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270 # author will be added on followups too. If 'no', they're never
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271 # added to the nosy.
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274 # Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy
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275 # list? If 'new' is used, then the recipients will only be added
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276 # when a message creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the recipients
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277 # will be added on followups too. If 'no', they're never added to
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278 # the nosy.
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279 ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY = 'new' # either 'yes', 'no', 'new'
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281 # Where to place the email signature
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282 EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION = 'bottom' # one of 'top', 'bottom', 'none'
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283
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284 # Keep email citations
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285 EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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287 # Preserve the email body as is
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288 EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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290 # Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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291 # subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it
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292 # blank. Examples:
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293 MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'issue' # use "issue" class by default
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294 #MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = '' # disable (or just comment the var out)
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296 # HTML version to generate. The templates are html4 by default. If you
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298 # too so all auto-generated HTML is compliant.
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299 HTML_VERSION = 'html4' # either 'html4' or 'xhtml'
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301 # Character set to encode email headers with. We use utf-8 by default, as
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302 # it's the most flexible. Some mail readers (eg. Eudora) can't cope with
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303 # that, so you might need to specify a more limited character set (eg.
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304 # 'iso-8859-1'.
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305 EMAIL_CHARSET = 'utf-8'
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306 #EMAIL_CHARSET = 'iso-8859-1' # use this instead for Eudora users
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308 # You may specify a different default timezone, for use when users do not
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309 # choose their own in their settings.
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310 DEFAULT_TIMEZONE = 0 # specify as numeric hour offest
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312 #
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313 # SECURITY DEFINITIONS
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314 #
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315 # define the Roles that a user gets when they register with the
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316 # tracker these are a comma-separated string of role names (e.g.
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317 # 'Admin,User')
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318 NEW_WEB_USER_ROLES = 'User'
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319 NEW_EMAIL_USER_ROLES = 'User'
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320
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321 Tracker Schema
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322 ==============
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324 .. note::
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325 If you modify the schema, you'll most likely need to edit the
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326 `web interface`_ HTML template files and `detectors`_ to reflect
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327 your changes.
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329 A tracker schema defines what data is stored in the tracker's database.
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330 Schemas are defined using Python code in the ``dbinit.py`` module of your
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331 tracker.
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333 The ``dbinit.py`` module
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334 ------------------------
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336 The ``dbinit.py`` module contains two functions:
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337
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338 **open**
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339 This function defines what your tracker looks like on the inside, the
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340 **schema** of the tracker. It defines the **Classes** and **properties**
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341 on each class. It also defines the **security** for those Classes. The
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342 next few sections describe how schemas work and what you can do with
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343 them.
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344 **init**
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345 This function is responsible for setting up the initial state of your
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346 tracker. It's called exactly once - but the ``roundup-admin initialise``
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347 command. See the start of the section on `database content`_ for more
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348 info about how this works.
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350
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351 The "classic" schema
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352 --------------------
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354 The "classic" schema looks like this (see below for the meaning
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355 of ``'setkey'``)::
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357 pri = Class(db, "priority", name=String(), order=String())
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358 pri.setkey("name")
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359
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360 stat = Class(db, "status", name=String(), order=String())
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361 stat.setkey("name")
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363 keyword = Class(db, "keyword", name=String())
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364 keyword.setkey("name")
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365
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366 user = Class(db, "user", username=String(), organisation=String(),
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367 password=String(), address=String(), realname=String(),
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368 phone=String())
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369 user.setkey("username")
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371 msg = FileClass(db, "msg", author=Link("user"), summary=String(),
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372 date=Date(), recipients=Multilink("user"),
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373 files=Multilink("file"))
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375 file = FileClass(db, "file", name=String(), type=String())
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377 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", topic=Multilink("keyword"),
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378 status=Link("status"), assignedto=Link("user"),
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379 priority=Link("priority"))
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380 issue.setkey('title')
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383 What you can't do to the schema
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384 -------------------------------
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385
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386 You must never:
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387
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388 **Remove the users class**
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389 This class is the only *required* class in Roundup. Similarly, its
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390 username, password and address properties must never be removed.
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391
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392 **Change the type of a property**
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393 Property types must *never* be changed - the database simply doesn't take
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394 this kind of action into account. You can't just remove a
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395 property and re-add it as a new type either. If you wanted to make the
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396 assignedto property a Multilink, you'd need to create a new property
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397 assignedto_list and remove the old assignedto property.
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400 What you can do to the schema
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401 -----------------------------
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402
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403 Your schema may be changed at any time before or after the tracker has been
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404 initialised (or used). You may:
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405
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406 **Add new properties to classes, or add whole new classes**
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407 This is painless and easy to do - there are generally no repurcussions
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408 from adding new information to a tracker's schema.
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409
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410 **Remove properties**
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411 Removing properties is a little more tricky - you need to make sure that
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412 the property is no longer used in the `web interface`_ *or* by the
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413 detectors_.
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417 Classes and Properties - creating a new information store
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418 ---------------------------------------------------------
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422 priority
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423 Defines the possible levels of urgency for issues.
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425 status
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426 Defines the possible states of processing the issue may be in.
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427
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428 keyword
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429 Initially empty, will hold keywords useful for searching issues.
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431 user
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432 Initially holding the "admin" user, will eventually have an entry
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433 for all users using roundup.
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435 msg
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436 Initially empty, will hold all e-mail messages sent to or
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437 generated by roundup.
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439 file
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440 Initially empty, will hold all files attached to issues.
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442 issue
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443 Initially empty, this is where the issue information is stored.
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444
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445 We define the "priority" and "status" classes to allow two things:
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446 reduction in the amount of information stored on the issue and more
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447 powerful, accurate searching of issues by priority and status. By only
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448 requiring a link on the issue (which is stored as a single number) we
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449 reduce the chance that someone mis-types a priority or status - or
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450 simply makes a new one up.
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451
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452
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453 Class and Items
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454 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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455
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456 A Class defines a particular class (or type) of data that will be stored
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457 in the database. A class comprises one or more properties, which gives
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458 the information about the class items.
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459
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460 The actual data entered into the database, using ``class.create()``, are
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461 called items. They have a special immutable property called ``'id'``. We
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462 sometimes refer to this as the *itemid*.
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465 Properties
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466 ~~~~~~~~~~
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468 A Class is comprised of one or more properties of the following types:
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469
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470 * String properties are for storing arbitrary-length strings.
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471 * Password properties are for storing encoded arbitrary-length strings.
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472 The default encoding is defined on the ``roundup.password.Password``
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473 class.
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474 * Date properties store date-and-time stamps. Their values are Timestamp
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475 objects.
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476 * Number properties store numeric values.
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477 * Boolean properties store on/off, yes/no, true/false values.
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478 * A Link property refers to a single other item selected from a
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479 specified class. The class is part of the property; the value is an
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480 integer, the id of the chosen item.
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481 * A Multilink property refers to possibly many items in a specified
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482 class. The value is a list of integers.
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485 FileClass
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486 ~~~~~~~~~
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487
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488 FileClasses save their "content" attribute off in a separate file from
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489 the rest of the database. This reduces the number of large entries in
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490 the database, which generally makes databases more efficient, and also
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491 allows us to use command-line tools to operate on the files. They are
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492 stored in the files sub-directory of the ``'db'`` directory in your
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493 tracker.
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496 IssueClass
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497 ~~~~~~~~~~
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499 IssueClasses automatically include the "messages", "files", "nosy", and
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500 "superseder" properties.
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502 The messages and files properties list the links to the messages and
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503 files related to the issue. The nosy property is a list of links to
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504 users who wish to be informed of changes to the issue - they get "CC'ed"
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505 e-mails when messages are sent to or generated by the issue. The nosy
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506 reactor (in the ``'detectors'`` directory) handles this action. The
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507 superseder link indicates an issue which has superseded this one.
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508
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509 They also have the dynamically generated "creation", "activity" and
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510 "creator" properties.
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511
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512 The value of the "creation" property is the date when an item was
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513 created, and the value of the "activity" property is the date when any
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514 property on the item was last edited (equivalently, these are the dates
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515 on the first and last records in the item's journal). The "creator"
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516 property holds a link to the user that created the issue.
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519 setkey(property)
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520 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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521
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522 Select a String property of the class to be the key property. The key
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523 property must be unique, and allows references to the items in the class
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524 by the content of the key property. That is, we can refer to users by
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525 their username: for example, let's say that there's an issue in roundup,
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526 issue 23. There's also a user, richard, who happens to be user 2. To
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527 assign an issue to him, we could do either of::
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528
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529 roundup-admin set issue23 assignedto=2
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531 or::
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533 roundup-admin set issue23 assignedto=richard
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534
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535 The same thing can be done in the web and e-mail interfaces.
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537 If a class does not have an "order" property, the key is also used to
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538 sort instances of the class when it is rendered in the user interface.
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539 (If a class has no "order" property, sorting is by the labelproperty of
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540 the class. This is computed, in order of precedence, as the key, the
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541 "name", the "title", or the first property alphabetically.)
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544 create(information)
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545 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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547 Create an item in the database. This is generally used to create items
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548 in the "definitional" classes like "priority" and "status".
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549
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550
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551 Examples of adding to your schema
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552 ---------------------------------
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553
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554 TODO
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555
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556
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557 Detectors - adding behaviour to your tracker
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558 ============================================
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559 .. _detectors:
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560
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561 Detectors are initialised every time you open your tracker database, so
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562 you're free to add and remove them any time, even after the database is
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563 initialised via the "roundup-admin initialise" command.
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565 The detectors in your tracker fire *before* (**auditors**) and *after*
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566 (**reactors**) changes to the contents of your database. They are Python
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567 modules that sit in your tracker's ``detectors`` directory. You will
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568 have some installed by default - have a look. You can write new
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569 detectors or modify the existing ones. The existing detectors installed
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570 for you are:
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571
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572 **nosyreaction.py**
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573 This provides the automatic nosy list maintenance and email sending.
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574 The nosy reactor (``nosyreaction``) fires when new messages are added
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575 to issues. The nosy auditor (``updatenosy``) fires when issues are
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576 changed, and figures out what changes need to be made to the nosy list
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577 (such as adding new authors, etc.)
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578 **statusauditor.py**
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579 This provides the ``chatty`` auditor which changes the issue status
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580 from ``unread`` or ``closed`` to ``chatting`` if new messages appear.
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581 It also provides the ``presetunread`` auditor which pre-sets the
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582 status to ``unread`` on new items if the status isn't explicitly
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583 defined.
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584 **messagesummary.py**
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585 Generates the ``summary`` property for new messages based on the message
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586 content.
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587 **userauditor.py**
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588 Verifies the content of some of the user fields (email addresses and
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589 roles lists).
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590
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591 If you don't want this default behaviour, you're completely free to change
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592 or remove these detectors.
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594 See the detectors section in the `design document`__ for details of the
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595 interface for detectors.
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597 __ design.html
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600 Detector API
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601 ------------
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603 Auditors are called with the arguments::
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605 audit(db, cl, itemid, newdata)
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606
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607 where ``db`` is the database, ``cl`` is an instance of Class or
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608 IssueClass within the database, and ``newdata`` is a dictionary mapping
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609 property names to values.
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610
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611 For a ``create()`` operation, the ``itemid`` argument is None and
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612 newdata contains all of the initial property values with which the item
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613 is about to be created.
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615 For a ``set()`` operation, newdata contains only the names and values of
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616 properties that are about to be changed.
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618 For a ``retire()`` or ``restore()`` operation, newdata is None.
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620 Reactors are called with the arguments::
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622 react(db, cl, itemid, olddata)
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624 where ``db`` is the database, ``cl`` is an instance of Class or
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625 IssueClass within the database, and ``olddata`` is a dictionary mapping
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626 property names to values.
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628 For a ``create()`` operation, the ``itemid`` argument is the id of the
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629 newly-created item and ``olddata`` is None.
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631 For a ``set()`` operation, ``olddata`` contains the names and previous
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632 values of properties that were changed.
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634 For a ``retire()`` or ``restore()`` operation, ``itemid`` is the id of
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635 the retired or restored item and ``olddata`` is None.
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638 Additional Detectors Ready For Use
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639 ----------------------------------
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641 Sample additional detectors that have been found useful will appear in
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642 the ``'detectors'`` directory of the Roundup distribution. If you want
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643 to use one, copy it to the ``'detectors'`` of your tracker instance:
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645 **newissuecopy.py**
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646 This detector sends an email to a team address whenever a new issue is
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647 created. The address is hard-coded into the detector, so edit it
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648 before you use it (look for the text 'team@team.host') or you'll get
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649 email errors!
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650 **creator_resolution.py**
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651 Catch attempts to set the status to "resolved" - if the assignedto
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652 user isn't the creator, then set the status to "confirm-done".
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653 "classic" Roundup doesn't have that status, so you'll have to add it. If
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654 you don't want to though, it'll just use "in-progress" instead.
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655 **email_auditor.py**
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656 If a file added to an issue is of type message/rfc822, we tack on the
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657 extension .eml.
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658 The reason for this is that Microsoft Internet Explorer will not open
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659 things with a .eml attachment, as they deem it 'unsafe'. Worse yet,
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660 they'll just give you an incomprehensible error message. For more
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661 information, see the detector code - it has a length explanation.
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664 Auditor or Reactor?
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665 -------------------
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667 Generally speaking, the following rules should be observed:
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669 **Auditors**
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670 Are used for `vetoing creation of or changes to items`_. They might
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671 also make automatic changes to item properties.
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672 **Reactors**
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673 Detect changes in the database and react accordingly. They should avoid
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674 making changes to the database where possible, as this could create
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675 detector loops.
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678 Vetoing creation of or changes to items
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681 Auditors may raise the ``Reject`` exception to prevent the creation of
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682 or changes to items in the database. The mail gateway, for example, will
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683 not attach files or messages to issues when the creation of those files or
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684 messages are prevented through the ``Reject`` exception. It'll also not create
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685 users if that creation is ``Reject``'ed too.
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687 To use, simply add at the top of your auditor::
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689 from roundup.exceptions import Reject
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691 And then when your rejection criteria have been detected, simply::
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693 raise Reject
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696 Generating email from Roundup
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699 The module ``roundup.mailer`` contains most of the nuts-n-bolts required
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700 to generate email messages from Roundup.
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702 In addition, the ``IssueClass`` methods ``nosymessage()`` and
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703 ``send_message()`` are used to generate nosy messages, and may generate
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704 messages which only consist of a change note (ie. the message id parameter
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708 Database Content
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712 If you modify the content of definitional classes, you'll most
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713 likely need to edit the tracker `detectors`_ to reflect your changes.
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715 Customisation of the special "definitional" classes (eg. status,
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716 priority, resolution, ...) may be done either before or after the
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717 tracker is initialised. The actual method of doing so is completely
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718 different in each case though, so be careful to use the right one.
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719
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720 **Changing content before tracker initialisation**
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721 Edit the dbinit module in your tracker to alter the items created in
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722 using the ``create()`` methods.
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723
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724 **Changing content after tracker initialisation**
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725 As the "admin" user, click on the "class list" link in the web
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726 interface to bring up a list of all database classes. Click on the
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727 name of the class you wish to change the content of.
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728
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729 You may also use the ``roundup-admin`` interface's create, set and
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730 retire methods to add, alter or remove items from the classes in
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731 question.
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732
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733 See "`adding a new field to the classic schema`_" for an example that
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734 requires database content changes.
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736
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737 Security / Access Controls
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738 ==========================
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739
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740 A set of Permissions is built into the security module by default:
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741
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742 - Edit (everything)
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743 - View (everything)
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744
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745 Every Class you define in your tracker's schema also gets an Edit and View
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746 Permission of its own.
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747
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748 The default interfaces define:
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749
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750 - Web Registration
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751 - Web Access
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752 - Web Roles
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753 - Email Registration
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754 - Email Access
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755
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756 These are hooked into the default Roles:
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757
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758 - Admin (Edit everything, View everything, Web Roles)
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759 - User (Web Access, Email Access)
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760 - Anonymous (Web Registration, Email Registration)
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761
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762 And finally, the "admin" user gets the "Admin" Role, and the "anonymous"
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763 user gets "Anonymous" assigned when the database is initialised on
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764 installation. The two default schemas then define:
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766 - Edit issue, View issue (both)
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767 - Edit file, View file (both)
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768 - Edit msg, View msg (both)
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769 - Edit support, View support (extended only)
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771 and assign those Permissions to the "User" Role. Put together, these
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772 settings appear in the ``open()`` function of the tracker ``dbinit.py``
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773 (the following is taken from the "minimal" template's ``dbinit.py``)::
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774
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775 #
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776 # SECURITY SETTINGS
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777 #
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778 # and give the regular users access to the web and email interface
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779 p = db.security.getPermission('Web Access')
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780 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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781 p = db.security.getPermission('Email Access')
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782 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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783
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784 # May users view other user information? Comment these lines out
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785 # if you don't want them to
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786 p = db.security.getPermission('View', 'user')
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787 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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788
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789 # Assign the appropriate permissions to the anonymous user's
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790 # Anonymous role. Choices here are:
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791 # - Allow anonymous users to register through the web
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792 p = db.security.getPermission('Web Registration')
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793 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Anonymous', p)
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794 # - Allow anonymous (new) users to register through the email
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795 # gateway
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796 p = db.security.getPermission('Email Registration')
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797 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Anonymous', p)
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799
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800 New User Roles
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801 --------------
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802
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803 New users are assigned the Roles defined in the config file as:
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804
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805 - NEW_WEB_USER_ROLES
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806 - NEW_EMAIL_USER_ROLES
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807
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808
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809 Changing Access Controls
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810 ------------------------
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811
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812 You may alter the configuration variables to change the Role that new
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813 web or email users get, for example to not give them access to the web
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814 interface if they register through email.
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815
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816 You may use the ``roundup-admin`` "``security``" command to display the
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817 current Role and Permission configuration in your tracker.
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820 Adding a new Permission
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821 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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822
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823 When adding a new Permission, you will need to:
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825 1. add it to your tracker's dbinit so it is created, using
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826 ``security.addPermission``, for example::
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827
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828 self.security.addPermission(name="View", klass='frozzle',
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829 description="User is allowed to access frozzles")
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831 will set up a new "View" permission on the Class "frozzle".
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832 2. enable it for the Roles that should have it (verify with
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833 "``roundup-admin security``")
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834 3. add it to the relevant HTML interface templates
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835 4. add it to the appropriate xxxPermission methods on in your tracker
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836 interfaces module
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839 Example Scenarios
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840 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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842 **automatic registration of users in the e-mail gateway**
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843 By giving the "anonymous" user the "Email Registration" Role, any
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844 unidentified user will automatically be registered with the tracker
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847 behaviour in the tracker templates that ship with Roundup.
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849 **anonymous access through the e-mail gateway**
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850 Give the "anonymous" user the "Email Access" and ("Edit", "issue")
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851 Roles but do not not give them the "Email Registration" Role. This
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853 automatically logged in as "anonymous". Since they don't have the
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854 "Email Registration" Role, they won't be automatically registered, but
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855 since "anonymous" has permission to use the gateway, they'll still be
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856 able to submit issues. Note that the Sender information - their email
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857 address - will not be available - they're *anonymous*.
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858
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859 **only developers may be assigned issues**
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860 Create a new Permission called "Fixer" for the "issue" class. Create a
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861 new Role "Developer" which has that Permission, and assign that to the
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862 appropriate users. Filter the list of users available in the assignedto
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863 list to include only those users. Enforce the Permission with an
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864 auditor. See the example
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865 `restricting the list of users that are assignable to a task`_.
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866
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867 **only managers may sign off issues as complete**
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868 Create a new Permission called "Closer" for the "issue" class. Create a
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869 new Role "Manager" which has that Permission, and assign that to the
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870 appropriate users. In your web interface, only display the "resolved"
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871 issue state option when the user has the "Closer" Permissions. Enforce
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872 the Permission with an auditor. This is very similar to the previous
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873 example, except that the web interface check would look like::
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874
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875 <option tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Closer')"
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876 value="resolved">Resolved</option>
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877
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878 **don't give web access to users who register through email**
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879 Create a new Role called "Email User" which has all the Permissions of
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880 the normal "User" Role minus the "Web Access" Permission. This will
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881 allow users to send in emails to the tracker, but not access the web
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882 interface.
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883
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884 **let some users edit the details of all users**
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885 Create a new Role called "User Admin" which has the Permission for
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886 editing users::
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887
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888 db.security.addRole(name='User Admin', description='Managing users')
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889 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', 'user')
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890 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User Admin', p)
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891
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892 and assign the Role to the users who need the permission.
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893
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894
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895 Web Interface
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896 =============
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897
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898 .. contents::
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899 :local:
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900
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901 The web interface is provided by the ``roundup.cgi.client`` module and
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902 is used by ``roundup.cgi``, ``roundup-server`` and ``ZRoundup``
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903 (``ZRoundup`` is broken, until further notice). In all cases, we
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904 determine which tracker is being accessed (the first part of the URL
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905 path inside the scope of the CGI handler) and pass control on to the
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906 tracker ``interfaces.Client`` class - which uses the ``Client`` class
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907 from ``roundup.cgi.client`` - which handles the rest of the access
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908 through its ``main()`` method. This means that you can do pretty much
1089
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909 anything you want as a web interface to your tracker.
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910
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911 Repercussions of changing the tracker schema
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912 ---------------------------------------------
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913
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914 If you choose to change the `tracker schema`_ you will need to ensure
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915 the web interface knows about it:
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916
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917 1. Index, item and search pages for the relevant classes may need to
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918 have properties added or removed,
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919 2. The "page" template may require links to be changed, as might the
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920 "home" page's content arguments.
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921
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922 How requests are processed
1098
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923 --------------------------
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924
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925 The basic processing of a web request proceeds as follows:
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926
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927 1. figure out who we are, defaulting to the "anonymous" user
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928 2. figure out what the request is for - we call this the "context"
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929 3. handle any requested action (item edit, search, ...)
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930 4. render the template requested by the context, resulting in HTML
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931 output
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932
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933 In some situations, exceptions occur:
1070
af0abadfda3a *** empty log message ***
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parents: 1058
diff changeset
934
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935 - HTTP Redirect (generally raised by an action)
1674
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936 - SendFile (generally raised by ``determine_context``)
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937 here we serve up a FileClass "content" property
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938 - SendStaticFile (generally raised by ``determine_context``)
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939 here we serve up a file from the tracker "html" directory
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940 - Unauthorised (generally raised by an action)
1674
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941 here the action is cancelled, the request is rendered and an error
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942 message is displayed indicating that permission was not granted for
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943 the action to take place
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944 - NotFound (raised wherever it needs to be)
1674
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945 this exception percolates up to the CGI interface that called the
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946 client
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947
1073
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
948 Determining web context
1098
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parents: 1096
diff changeset
949 -----------------------
1073
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950
1674
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951 To determine the "context" of a request, we look at the URL and the
1679
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parents: 1674
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952 special request variable ``@template``. The URL path after the tracker
1674
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953 identifier is examined. Typical URL paths look like:
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954
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955 1. ``/tracker/issue``
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956 2. ``/tracker/issue1``
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957 3. ``/tracker/@file/style.css``
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958 4. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1``
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959 5. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1/kitten.png``
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960
1089
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961 where the "tracker identifier" is "tracker" in the above cases. That means
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diff changeset
962 we're looking at "issue", "issue1", "@file/style.css", "file1" and
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963 "file1/kitten.png" in the cases above. The path is generally only one
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diff changeset
964 entry long - longer paths are handled differently.
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965
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diff changeset
966 a. if there is no path, then we are in the "home" context. See `the "home"
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diff changeset
967 context`_ below for more information about how it may be used.
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968 b. if the path starts with "@file" (as in example 3,
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969 "/tracker/@file/style.css"), then the additional path entry,
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970 "style.css" specifies the filename of a static file we're to serve up
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971 from the tracker "html" directory. Raises a SendStaticFile exception.
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972 c. if there is something in the path (as in example 1, "issue"), it
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973 identifies the tracker class we're to display.
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974 d. if the path is an item designator (as in examples 2 and 4, "issue1"
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975 and "file1"), then we're to display a specific item.
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976 e. if the path starts with an item designator and is longer than one
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977 entry (as in example 5, "file1/kitten.png"), then we're assumed to be
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978 handling an item of a ``FileClass``, and the extra path information
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979 gives the filename that the client is going to label the download
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980 with (i.e. "file1/kitten.png" is nicer to download than "file1").
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981 This raises a ``SendFile`` exception.
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982
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983 Both b. and e. stop before we bother to determine the template we're
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984 going to use. That's because they don't actually use templates.
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985
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986 The template used is specified by the ``@template`` CGI variable, which
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987 defaults to:
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988
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989 - only classname suplied: "index"
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990 - full item designator supplied: "item"
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parents: 1003
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991
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
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992
2227
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
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993 The "home" Context
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parents: 2209
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994 ------------------
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parents: 2209
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995
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996 The "home" context is special because it allows you to add templated
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997 pages to your tracker that don't rely on a class or item (ie. an issues
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
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998 list or specific issue).
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999
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1000 Let's say you wish to add frames to control the layout of your tracker's
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parents: 2209
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1001 interface. You'd probably have:
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parents: 2209
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1002
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parents: 2209
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1003 - A top-level frameset page. This page probably wouldn't be templated, so
15c20983fd13 more info about the "home" context
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1004 it could be served as a static file (see `serving static content`_)
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parents: 2209
diff changeset
1005 - A sidebar frame that is templated. Let's call this page
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parents: 2209
diff changeset
1006 "home.navigation.html" in your tracker's "html" directory. To load that
15c20983fd13 more info about the "home" context
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2209
diff changeset
1007 page up, you use the URL:
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parents: 2209
diff changeset
1008
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parents: 2209
diff changeset
1009 <tracker url>/home?@template=navigation
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parents: 2209
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1010
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parents: 2209
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1011
2134
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2129
diff changeset
1012 Serving static content
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parents: 2129
diff changeset
1013 ----------------------
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parents: 2129
diff changeset
1014
00dfd8b50773 doc clarification
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parents: 2129
diff changeset
1015 See the previous section `determining web context`_ where it describes
00dfd8b50773 doc clarification
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2129
diff changeset
1016 ``@file`` paths.
00dfd8b50773 doc clarification
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2129
diff changeset
1017
00dfd8b50773 doc clarification
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2129
diff changeset
1018
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
diff changeset
1019 Performing actions in web requests
1098
c5819344714c more doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1096
diff changeset
1020 ----------------------------------
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1021
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1022 When a user requests a web page, they may optionally also request for an
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
diff changeset
1023 action to take place. As described in `how requests are processed`_, the
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1024 action is performed before the requested page is generated. Actions are
1679
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1025 triggered by using a ``@action`` CGI variable, where the value is one
1674
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1026 of:
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1027
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1028 **login**
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1029 Attempt to log a user in.
1278
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1270
diff changeset
1030
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1031 **logout**
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1032 Log the user out - make them "anonymous".
1278
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1270
diff changeset
1033
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1034 **register**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1035 Attempt to create a new user based on the contents of the form and then
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1036 log them in.
1278
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1270
diff changeset
1037
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1038 **edit**
1679
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1039 Perform an edit of an item in the database. There are some `special form
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1674
diff changeset
1040 variables`_ you may use.
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1041
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1042 **new**
1679
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1043 Add a new item to the database. You may use the same `special form
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1674
diff changeset
1044 variables`_ as in the "edit" action.
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
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parents: 1057
diff changeset
1045
1278
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
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parents: 1270
diff changeset
1046 **retire**
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1270
diff changeset
1047 Retire the item in the database.
0c0494deb09f doc for the retire action
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1270
diff changeset
1048
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1049 **editCSV**
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
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parents: 1057
diff changeset
1050 Performs an edit of all of a class' items in one go. See also the
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1051 *class*.csv templating method which generates the CSV data to be
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1052 edited, and the ``'_generic.index'`` template which uses both of these
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1053 features.
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1054
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1055 **search**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1056 Mangle some of the form variables:
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1057
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1058 - Set the form ":filter" variable based on the values of the filter
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1059 variables - if they're set to anything other than "dontcare" then add
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1060 them to :filter.
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1061
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1062 - Also handle the ":queryname" variable and save off the query to the
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1063 user's query list.
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1064
2017
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Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1065 Each of the actions is implemented by a corresponding ``*XxxAction*`` (where
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1066 "Xxx" is the name of the action) class in the ``roundup.cgi.actions`` module.
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1067 These classes are registered with ``roundup.cgi.client.Client`` which also
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1068 happens to be available in your tracker instance as ``interfaces.Client``. So
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1069 if you need to define new actions, you may add them there (see `defining new
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1070 web actions`_).
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1071
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1072 Each action class also has a ``*permission*`` method which determines whether
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
1073 the action is permissible given the current user. The base permission checks
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1074 are:
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1075
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1076 **login**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1077 Determine whether the user has permission to log in. Base behaviour is
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1078 to check the user has "Web Access".
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1124
diff changeset
1079 **logout**
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1080 No permission checks are made.
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1124
diff changeset
1081 **register**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1082 Determine whether the user has permission to register. Base behaviour
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1083 is to check the user has the "Web Registration" Permission.
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1124
diff changeset
1084 **edit**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1085 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this item. Base
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1086 behaviour is to check whether the user can edit this class. If we're
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1087 editing the "user" class, users are allowed to edit their own details -
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1088 unless they try to edit the "roles" property, which requires the
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1089 special Permission "Web Roles".
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1090 **new**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1091 Determine whether the user has permission to create (or edit) this
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1092 item. Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class. No
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1093 additional property checks are made. Additionally, new user items may
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parents: 1671
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1094 be created if the user has the "Web Registration" Permission.
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1095 **editCSV**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1096 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this class. Base
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1097 behaviour is to check whether the user may edit this class.
1125
3c1533be3822 more doc
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parents: 1124
diff changeset
1098 **search**
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1099 Determine whether the user has permission to search this class. Base
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1100 behaviour is to check whether the user may view this class.
1058
a55ef5a98fd3 more docco... and we need to check for web access Permission!
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1057
diff changeset
1101
659
e429649ed124 More documentation cleanups.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents:
diff changeset
1102
1679
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1103 Special form variables
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1104 ----------------------
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parents: 1674
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1105
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1106 Item properties and their values are edited with html FORM
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1107 variables and their values. You can:
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parents: 1674
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1108
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1109 - Change the value of some property of the current item.
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1110 - Create a new item of any class, and edit the new item's
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1111 properties,
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1112 - Attach newly created items to a multilink property of the
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
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1113 current item.
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1114 - Remove items from a multilink property of the current item.
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diff changeset
1115 - Specify that some properties are required for the edit
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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parents: 1674
diff changeset
1116 operation to be successful.
e2caeaa34ed4 fix timelog documentation, add new cgi special for variable doc
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diff changeset
1117
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1118 In the following, <bracketed> values are variable, "@" may be
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diff changeset
1119 either ":" or "@", and other text "required" is fixed.
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diff changeset
1120
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1121 Most properties are specified as form variables:
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1122
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1123 ``<propname>``
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diff changeset
1124 property on the current context item
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1125
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1126 ``<designator>"@"<propname>``
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1127 property on the indicated item (for editing related information)
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1128
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1129 Designators name a specific item of a class.
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1130
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1131 ``<classname><N>``
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1132 Name an existing item of class <classname>.
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1133
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1134 ``<classname>"-"<N>``
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1135 Name the <N>th new item of class <classname>. If the form
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1136 submission is successful, a new item of <classname> is
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1137 created. Within the submitted form, a particular
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1138 designator of this form always refers to the same new
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1139 item.
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1140
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1141 Once we have determined the "propname", we look at it to see
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1142 if it's special:
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1143
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1144 ``@required``
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1145 The associated form value is a comma-separated list of
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1146 property names that must be specified when the form is
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1147 submitted for the edit operation to succeed.
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1148
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1149 When the <designator> is missing, the properties are
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1150 for the current context item. When <designator> is
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1151 present, they are for the item specified by
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1152 <designator>.
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1153
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1154 The "@required" specifier must come before any of the
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1155 properties it refers to are assigned in the form.
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1156
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1157 ``@remove@<propname>=id(s)`` or ``@add@<propname>=id(s)``
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1158 The "@add@" and "@remove@" edit actions apply only to
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1159 Multilink properties. The form value must be a
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1160 comma-separate list of keys for the class specified by
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1161 the simple form variable. The listed items are added
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1162 to (respectively, removed from) the specified
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1163 property.
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1164
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1165 ``@link@<propname>=<designator>``
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1166 If the edit action is "@link@", the simple form
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1167 variable must specify a Link or Multilink property.
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1168 The form value is a comma-separated list of
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1169 designators. The item corresponding to each
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1170 designator is linked to the property given by simple
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1171 form variable.
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1172
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1173 None of the above (ie. just a simple form value)
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1174 The value of the form variable is converted
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1175 appropriately, depending on the type of the property.
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1176
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1177 For a Link('klass') property, the form value is a
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1178 single key for 'klass', where the key field is
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1179 specified in dbinit.py.
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1180
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1181 For a Multilink('klass') property, the form value is a
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1182 comma-separated list of keys for 'klass', where the
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1183 key field is specified in dbinit.py.
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1184
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1185 Note that for simple-form-variables specifiying Link
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1186 and Multilink properties, the linked-to class must
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1187 have a key field.
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1188
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1189 For a String() property specifying a filename, the
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1190 file named by the form value is uploaded. This means we
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1191 try to set additional properties "filename" and "type" (if
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1192 they are valid for the class). Otherwise, the property
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1193 is set to the form value.
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1194
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1195 For Date(), Interval(), Boolean(), and Number()
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1196 properties, the form value is converted to the
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1197 appropriate
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1198
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1199 Any of the form variables may be prefixed with a classname or
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1200 designator.
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1201
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1202 Two special form values are supported for backwards compatibility:
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1203
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1204 @note
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1205 This is equivalent to::
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1206
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1207 @link@messages=msg-1
1918
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1208 msg-1@content=value
1679
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1209
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1210 except that in addition, the "author" and "date" properties of
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1211 "msg-1" are set to the userid of the submitter, and the current
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1212 time, respectively.
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1213
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1214 @file
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1215 This is equivalent to::
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1216
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1217 @link@files=file-1
1918
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1218 file-1@content=value
1679
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1219
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1220 The String content value is handled as described above for file
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1221 uploads.
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1222
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1223 If both the "@note" and "@file" form variables are
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1224 specified, the action::
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1225
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1226 @link@msg-1@files=file-1
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1227
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1228 is also performed.
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1229
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1230 We also check that FileClass items have a "content" property with
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1231 actual content, otherwise we remove them from all_props before
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1232 returning.
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1233
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1234
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1235
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1236 Default templates
1098
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1237 -----------------
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1238
1952
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1239 The default templates are html4 compliant. If you wish to change them to be
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1240 xhtml compliant, you'll need to change the ``HTML_VERSION`` configuration
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1241 variable in ``config.py`` to ``'xhtml'`` instead of ``'html4'``.
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1242
1674
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1243 Most customisation of the web view can be done by modifying the
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1244 templates in the tracker ``'html'`` directory. There are several types
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1245 of files in there. The *minimal* template includes:
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1246
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1247 **page.html**
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1248 This template usually defines the overall look of your tracker. When
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1249 you view an issue, it appears inside this template. When you view an
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1250 index, it also appears inside this template. This template defines a
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1251 macro called "icing" which is used by almost all other templates as a
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1252 coating for their content, using its "content" slot. It also defines
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1253 the "head_title" and "body_title" slots to allow setting of the page
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1254 title.
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1255 **home.html**
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1256 the default page displayed when no other page is indicated by the user
1674
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1257 **home.classlist.html**
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1258 a special version of the default page that lists the classes in the
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1259 tracker
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1260 **classname.item.html**
1091
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1261 displays an item of the *classname* class
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1262 **classname.index.html**
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1263 displays a list of *classname* items
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1264 **classname.search.html**
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1265 displays a search page for *classname* items
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1266 **_generic.index.html**
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1267 used to display a list of items where there is no
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1268 ``*classname*.index`` available
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1269 **_generic.help.html**
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1270 used to display a "class help" page where there is no
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1271 ``*classname*.help``
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1272 **user.register.html**
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1273 a special page just for the user class, that renders the registration
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1274 page
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1275 **style.css.html**
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1276 a static file that is served up as-is
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1277
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1278 The *classic* template has a number of additional templates.
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1279
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1280 Remember that you can create any template extension you want to,
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1281 so if you just want to play around with the templating for new issues,
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1282 you can copy the current "issue.item" template to "issue.test", and then
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1283 access the test template using the "@template" URL argument::
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1284
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1285 http://your.tracker.example/tracker/issue?@template=test
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1286
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1287 and it won't affect your users using the "issue.item" template.
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1288
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1289
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1290 How the templates work
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1291 ----------------------
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1292
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1293
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1294 Basic Templating Actions
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1295 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1296
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1297 Roundup's templates consist of special attributes on the HTML tags.
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1298 These attributes form the Template Attribute Language, or TAL. The basic
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1299 TAL commands are:
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1300
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1301 **tal:define="variable expression; variable expression; ..."**
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1302 Define a new variable that is local to this tag and its contents. For
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1303 example::
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1304
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1305 <html tal:define="title request/description">
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1306 <head><title tal:content="title"></title></head>
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1307 </html>
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1308
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1309 In this example, the variable "title" is defined as the result of the
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1310 expression "request/description". The "tal:content" command inside the
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1311 <html> tag may then use the "title" variable.
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1312
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1313 **tal:condition="expression"**
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1314 Only keep this tag and its contents if the expression is true. For
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1315 example::
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1316
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1317 <p tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'issue')">
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1318 Display some issue information.
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1319 </p>
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1320
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1321 In the example, the <p> tag and its contents are only displayed if
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1322 the user has the "View" permission for issues. We consider the number
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1323 zero, a blank string, an empty list, and the built-in variable
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1324 nothing to be false values. Nearly every other value is true,
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1325 including non-zero numbers, and strings with anything in them (even
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1326 spaces!).
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1327
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1328 **tal:repeat="variable expression"**
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1329 Repeat this tag and its contents for each element of the sequence
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1330 that the expression returns, defining a new local variable and a
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1331 special "repeat" variable for each element. For example::
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1332
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1333 <tr tal:repeat="u user/list">
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1334 <td tal:content="u/id"></td>
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1335 <td tal:content="u/username"></td>
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1336 <td tal:content="u/realname"></td>
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1337 </tr>
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1338
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1339 The example would iterate over the sequence of users returned by
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1340 "user/list" and define the local variable "u" for each entry.
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1341
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1342 **tal:replace="expression"**
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1343 Replace this tag with the result of the expression. For example::
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1344
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1345 <span tal:replace="request/user/realname" />
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1346
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1347 The example would replace the <span> tag and its contents with the
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1348 user's realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce", then the
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1349 resultant output would be "Bruce".
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1350
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1351 **tal:content="expression"**
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1352 Replace the contents of this tag with the result of the expression.
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1353 For example::
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1354
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1355 <span tal:content="request/user/realname">user's name appears here
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1356 </span>
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1357
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1358 The example would replace the contents of the <span> tag with the
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1359 user's realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce" then the
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1360 resultant output would be "<span>Bruce</span>".
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1361
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1362 **tal:attributes="attribute expression; attribute expression; ..."**
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1363 Set attributes on this tag to the results of expressions. For
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1364 example::
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1365
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1366 <a tal:attributes="href string:user${request/user/id}">My Details</a>
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1367
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1368 In the example, the "href" attribute of the <a> tag is set to the
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1369 value of the "string:user${request/user/id}" expression, which will
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1370 be something like "user123".
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1371
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1372 **tal:omit-tag="expression"**
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1373 Remove this tag (but not its contents) if the expression is true. For
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1374 example::
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1375
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1376 <span tal:omit-tag="python:1">Hello, world!</span>
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1377
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1378 would result in output of::
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1379
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1380 Hello, world!
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1381
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1382 The commands on a given tag are evaulated in the order above,
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1383 so *define* comes before *condition*, and so on.
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1384
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1385 Additionally, you may include tags such as <tal:block>, which are
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1386 removed from output. Its content is kept, but the tag itself is not (so
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1387 don't go using any "tal:attributes" commands on it). This is useful for
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1388 making arbitrary blocks of HTML conditional or repeatable (very handy
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1389 for repeating multiple table rows, which would othewise require an
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1390 illegal tag placement to effect the repeat).
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1391
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1392
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1393 Templating Expressions
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1394 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1395
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1396 The expressions you may use in the attribute values may be one of the
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1397 following forms:
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1398
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1399 **Path Expressions** - eg. ``item/status/checklist``
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1400 These are object attribute / item accesses. Roughly speaking, the
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1401 path ``item/status/checklist`` is broken into parts ``item``,
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1402 ``status`` and ``checklist``. The ``item`` part is the root of the
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1403 expression. We then look for a ``status`` attribute on ``item``, or
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1404 failing that, a ``status`` item (as in ``item['status']``). If that
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1405 fails, the path expression fails. When we get to the end, the object
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1406 we're left with is evaluated to get a string - if it is a method, it
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1407 is called; if it is an object, it is stringified. Path expressions
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1408 may have an optional ``path:`` prefix, but they are the default
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1409 expression type, so it's not necessary.
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1410
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1411 If an expression evaluates to ``default``, then the expression is
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1412 "cancelled" - whatever HTML already exists in the template will
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1413 remain (tag content in the case of ``tal:content``, attributes in the
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1414 case of ``tal:attributes``).
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1415
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1416 If an expression evaluates to ``nothing`` then the target of the
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1417 expression is removed (tag content in the case of ``tal:content``,
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1418 attributes in the case of ``tal:attributes`` and the tag itself in
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1419 the case of ``tal:replace``).
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1420
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1421 If an element in the path may not exist, then you can use the ``|``
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1422 operator in the expression to provide an alternative. So, the
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1423 expression ``request/form/foo/value | default`` would simply leave
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1424 the current HTML in place if the "foo" form variable doesn't exist.
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1425
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1426 You may use the python function ``path``, as in
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1427 ``path("item/status")``, to embed path expressions in Python
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1428 expressions.
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1429
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1430 **String Expressions** - eg. ``string:hello ${user/name}``
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1431 These expressions are simple string interpolations - though they can
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1432 be just plain strings with no interpolation if you want. The
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1433 expression in the ``${ ... }`` is just a path expression as above.
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1434
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1435 **Python Expressions** - eg. ``python: 1+1``
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1436 These expressions give the full power of Python. All the "root level"
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1437 variables are available, so ``python:item.status.checklist()`` would
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1438 be equivalent to ``item/status/checklist``, assuming that
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1439 ``checklist`` is a method.
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1440
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1441 Modifiers:
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1442
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1443 **structure** - eg. ``structure python:msg.content.plain(hyperlink=1)``
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1444 The result of expressions are normally *escaped* to be safe for HTML
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1445 display (all "<", ">" and "&" are turned into special entities). The
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1446 ``structure`` expression modifier turns off this escaping - the
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1447 result of the expression is now assumed to be HTML, which is passed
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1448 to the web browser for rendering.
1448
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1449
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1450 **not:** - eg. ``not:python:1=1``
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1451 This simply inverts the logical true/false value of another
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1452 expression.
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1453
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1454
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1455 Template Macros
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1456 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1457
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1458 Macros are used in Roundup to save us from repeating the same common
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1459 page stuctures over and over. The most common (and probably only) macro
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1460 you'll use is the "icing" macro defined in the "page" template.
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1461
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1462 Macros are generated and used inside your templates using special
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1463 attributes similar to the `basic templating actions`_. In this case,
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1464 though, the attributes belong to the Macro Expansion Template Attribute
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1465 Language, or METAL. The macro commands are:
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1466
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1467 **metal:define-macro="macro name"**
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1468 Define that the tag and its contents are now a macro that may be
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1469 inserted into other templates using the *use-macro* command. For
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1470 example::
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1471
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1472 <html metal:define-macro="page">
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1473 ...
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1474 </html>
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1475
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1476 defines a macro called "page" using the ``<html>`` tag and its
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1477 contents. Once defined, macros are stored on the template they're
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1478 defined on in the ``macros`` attribute. You can access them later on
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1479 through the ``templates`` variable, eg. the most common
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1480 ``templates/page/macros/icing`` to access the "page" macro of the
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1481 "page" template.
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1482
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1483 **metal:use-macro="path expression"**
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1484 Use a macro, which is identified by the path expression (see above).
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1485 This will replace the current tag with the identified macro contents.
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1486 For example::
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1487
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1488 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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1489 ...
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1490 </tal:block>
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1491
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1492 will replace the tag and its contents with the "page" macro of the
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1493 "page" template.
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1494
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1495 **metal:define-slot="slot name"** and **metal:fill-slot="slot name"**
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1496 To define *dynamic* parts of the macro, you define "slots" which may
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1497 be filled when the macro is used with a *use-macro* command. For
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1498 example, the ``templates/page/macros/icing`` macro defines a slot like
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1499 so::
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1500
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1501 <title metal:define-slot="head_title">title goes here</title>
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1502
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1503 In your *use-macro* command, you may now use a *fill-slot* command
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1504 like this::
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1505
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1506 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">My Title</title>
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1507
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1508 where the tag that fills the slot completely replaces the one defined
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1509 as the slot in the macro.
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1510
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1511 You may not mix METAL and TAL commands on the same tag, but
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1512 TAL commands may be used freely inside METAL-using tags (so your
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1513 *fill-slots* tags may have all manner of TAL inside them).
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1514
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1515
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1516 Information available to templates
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1517 ----------------------------------
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1518
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1519 The following behaviour is implemented by
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1520 ``roundup.cgi.templating.RoundupPageTemplate``
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1521
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1522 The following variables are available to templates.
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1523
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1524 **context**
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1525 The current context. This is either None, a `hyperdb class wrapper`_
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1526 or a `hyperdb item wrapper`_
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1527 **request**
1073
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1528 Includes information about the current request, including:
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1529 - the current index information (``filterspec``, ``filter`` args,
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1530 ``properties``, etc) parsed out of the form.
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1531 - methods for easy filterspec link generation
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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1532 - *user*, the current user item as an HTMLItem instance
1073
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1533 - *form*
1674
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1534 The current CGI form information as a mapping of form argument name
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1535 to value
1254
77920c42aeb9 Expose the tracker config as a variable for templating
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1536 **config**
1674
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1537 This variable holds all the values defined in the tracker config.py
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1538 file (eg. TRACKER_NAME, etc.)
1125
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1539 **db**
1254
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1540 The current database, used to access arbitrary database items.
1213
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1541 **templates**
1674
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1542 Access to all the tracker templates by name. Used mainly in
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1543 *use-macro* commands.
1213
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1544 **utils**
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1545 This variable makes available some utility functions like batching.
1125
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1546 **nothing**
1674
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1547 This is a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then
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1548 the tag (in the case of a ``tal:replace``), its contents (in the case
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1549 of ``tal:content``) or some attributes (in the case of
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1550 ``tal:attributes``) will not appear in the the output. So, for
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1551 example::
1100
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1552
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1553 <span tal:attributes="class nothing">Hello, World!</span>
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1554
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1555 would result in::
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1556
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1557 <span>Hello, World!</span>
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1558
1125
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1559 **default**
1100
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1560 Also a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then the
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1561 existing HTML in the template will not be replaced or removed, it will
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1562 remain. So::
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1563
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1564 <span tal:replace="default">Hello, World!</span>
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1565
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1566 would result in::
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1567
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1568 <span>Hello, World!</span>
1073
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1569
1674
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1570
1073
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1571 The context variable
1098
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1572 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1073
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1573
1674
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1574 The *context* variable is one of three things based on the current
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1575 context (see `determining web context`_ for how we figure this out):
1073
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1576
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1577 1. if we're looking at a "home" page, then it's None
1123
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1578 2. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb class, it's a
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1579 `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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1580 3. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb item, it's a
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1581 `hyperdb item wrapper`_.
1073
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1582
1674
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1583 If the context is not None, we can access the properties of the class or
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1584 item. The only real difference between cases 2 and 3 above are:
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1585
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1586 1. the properties may have a real value behind them, and this will
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1587 appear if the property is displayed through ``context/property`` or
1073
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1588 ``context/property/field``.
1674
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1589 2. the context's "id" property will be a false value in the second case,
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1590 but a real, or true value in the third. Thus we can determine whether
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1591 we're looking at a real item from the hyperdb by testing
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1592 "context/id".
1073
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1593
1123
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1594 Hyperdb class wrapper
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1595 :::::::::::::::::::::
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1596
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1597 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLClass``
1674
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1598 class.
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1599
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1600 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb class. It is used
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1601 primarily in both index view and new item views, but it's also usable
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1602 anywhere else that you wish to access information about a class, or the
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1603 items of a class, when you don't have a specific item of that class in
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1604 mind.
1123
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1605
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1606 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
1674
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1607 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name
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parents: 1671
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1608 from the CGI form.
1123
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1609
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1610 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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1611
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1612 =========== =============================================================
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1613 Method Description
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1614 =========== =============================================================
1674
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1615 properties return a `hyperdb property wrapper`_ for all of this class's
1123
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1616 properties.
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1617 list lists all of the active (not retired) items in the class.
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1618 csv return the items of this class as a chunk of CSV text.
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1619 propnames lists the names of the properties of this class.
1674
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1620 filter lists of items from this class, filtered and sorted by the
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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1621 current *request* filterspec/filter/sort/group args
1123
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1622 classhelp display a link to a javascript popup containing this class'
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1623 "help" template.
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1624 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
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diff changeset
1625 renderWith render this class with the given template.
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diff changeset
1626 history returns 'New node - no history' :)
1136
7e193bbda38e added generic item editing
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parents: 1133
diff changeset
1627 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current class?
7e193bbda38e added generic item editing
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parents: 1133
diff changeset
1628 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current class?
1123
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1629 =========== =============================================================
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1630
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1631 If you have a property of the same name as one of the above
1674
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1632 methods, you'll need to access it using a python "item access"
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1633 expression. For example::
1123
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1634
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1635 python:context['list']
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1636
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1637 will access the "list" property, rather than the list method.
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1638
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1639
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1640 Hyperdb item wrapper
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1641 ::::::::::::::::::::
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1642
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1643 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLItem`` class.
1123
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1644
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1645 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb item.
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1646
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1647 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
1674
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1648 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name
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1649 from the CGI form.
1123
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1650
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1651 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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1652
1674
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1653 =============== ========================================================
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1654 Method Description
1674
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1655 =============== ========================================================
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1656 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
1674
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1657 journal return the journal of the current item (**not
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1658 implemented**)
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1659 history render the journal of the current item as HTML
1674
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1660 renderQueryForm specific to the "query" class - render the search form
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1661 for the query
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1662 hasPermission specific to the "user" class - determine whether the
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1663 user has a Permission
1136
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parents: 1133
diff changeset
1664 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current item?
7e193bbda38e added generic item editing
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1133
diff changeset
1665 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current item?
2154
9f6e6bc40a08 fixes and release announcement
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2153
diff changeset
1666 is_retired is the item retired?
2180
58b6d1747973 Web interface tweaks.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2159
diff changeset
1667 download_url generates a url-quoted link for download of FileClass
58b6d1747973 Web interface tweaks.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2159
diff changeset
1668 item contents (ie. file<id>/<name>)
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1669 =============== ========================================================
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1670
2407
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parents: 2404
diff changeset
1671 If you have a property of the same name as one of the above
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1672 methods, you'll need to access it using a python "item access"
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1673 expression. For example::
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1674
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1675 python:context['journal']
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1676
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1677 will access the "journal" property, rather than the journal method.
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1678
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1679
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1680 Hyperdb property wrapper
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1681 ::::::::::::::::::::::::
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1682
2407
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1683 This is implemented by subclasses of the
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1684 ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLProperty`` class (``HTMLStringProperty``,
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1685 ``HTMLNumberProperty``, and so on).
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1686
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1687 This wrapper object provides access to a single property of a class. Its
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1688 value may be either:
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1689
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1690 1. if accessed through a `hyperdb item wrapper`_, then it's a value from
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1691 the hyperdb
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1692 2. if access through a `hyperdb class wrapper`_, then it's a value from
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1693 the CGI form
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1694
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1695
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1696 The property wrapper has some useful attributes:
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1697
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1698 =============== ========================================================
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1699 Attribute Description
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1700 =============== ========================================================
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1701 _name the name of the property
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1702 _value the value of the property if any - this is the actual
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1703 value retrieved from the hyperdb for this property
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1704 =============== ========================================================
1123
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1705
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1706 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
644d3075c2df more documentation, fixed bug in request/description
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parents: 1113
diff changeset
1707
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1708 =========== ================================================================
1780
d2801a2b0a77 Initial implementation (half-baked) at new Tracker instance.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1777
diff changeset
1709 Method Description
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1710 =========== ================================================================
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1711 plain render a "plain" representation of the property. This method
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1712 may take two arguments:
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1713
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1714 escape
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1715 If true, escape the text so it is HTML safe (default: no). The
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1716 reason this defaults to off is that text is usually escaped
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1717 at a later stage by the TAL commands, unless the "structure"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1718 option is used in the template. The following ``tal:content``
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1719 expressions are all equivalent::
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1720
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1721 "structure python:msg.content.plain(escape=1)"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1722 "python:msg.content.plain()"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1723 "msg/content/plain"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1724 "msg/content"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1725
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1726 Usually you'll only want to use the escape option in a
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1727 complex expression.
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1728
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1729 hyperlink
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1730 If true, turn URLs, email addresses and hyperdb item
2407
ef226254ef46 some more documentation work
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1731 designators in the text into hyperlinks (default: no).
ef226254ef46 some more documentation work
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1732 You'll need to use the "structure" TAL option if you
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1733 want to use this ``tal:content`` expression::
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1734
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1735 "structure python:msg.content.plain(hyperlink=1)"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1736
2407
ef226254ef46 some more documentation work
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1737 The text is automatically HTML-escaped before the hyperlinking
ef226254ef46 some more documentation work
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1738 transformation done in the plain() method.
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1739 hyperlinked The same as msg.content.plain(hyperlink=1), but nicer::
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1740
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1741 "structure msg/content/hyperlinked"
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1742
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1743 field render an appropriate form edit field for the property - for
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1744 most types this is a text entry box, but for Booleans it's a
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1745 tri-state yes/no/neither selection.
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1746 stext only on String properties - render the value of the property
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1747 as StructuredText (requires the StructureText module to be
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1748 installed separately)
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1749 multiline only on String properties - render a multiline form edit
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1750 field for the property
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1751 email only on String properties - render the value of the property
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1752 as an obscured email address
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1753 confirm only on Password properties - render a second form edit field
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1754 for the property, used for confirmation that the user typed
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1755 the password correctly. Generates a field with name
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1756 "name:confirm".
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1757 now only on Date properties - return the current date as a new
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1758 property
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1759 reldate only on Date properties - render the interval between the date
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1760 and now
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1761 local only on Date properties - return this date as a new property
2007
55046bb7f789 tweaking
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2003
diff changeset
1762 with some timezone offset, for example::
55046bb7f789 tweaking
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2003
diff changeset
1763
55046bb7f789 tweaking
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2003
diff changeset
1764 python:context.creation.local(10)
55046bb7f789 tweaking
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2003
diff changeset
1765
55046bb7f789 tweaking
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2003
diff changeset
1766 will render the date with a +10 hour offset.
2088
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1767 pretty Date properties - render the date as "dd Mon YYYY" (eg. "19
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1768 Mar 2004"). Takes an optional format argument, for example::
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1769
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1770 python:context.activity.pretty('%Y-%m-%d')
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1771
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1772 Will format as "2004-03-19" instead.
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1773
90769be53b4b doc fix
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2076
diff changeset
1774 Interval properties - render the interval in a pretty
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1775 format (eg. "yesterday")
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1776 menu only on Link and Multilink properties - render a form select
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1777 list for this property
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1778 reverse only on Multilink properties - produce a list of the linked
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1779 items in reverse order
2180
58b6d1747973 Web interface tweaks.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2159
diff changeset
1780 isset returns True if the property has been set to a value
1773
5f15fb95180c various cosmetic fixes
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1730
diff changeset
1781 =========== ================================================================
1123
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1113
diff changeset
1782
2138
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1783 All of the above functions perform checks for permissions required to
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1784 display or edit the data they are manipulating. The simplest case is
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1785 editing an issue title. Including the expression::
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1786
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1787 context/title/field
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1788
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1789 Will present the user with an edit field, if they have edit permission. If
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1790 not, then they will be presented with a static display if they have view
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1791 permission. If they don't even have view permission, then an error message
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1792 is raised, preventing the display of the page, indicating that they don't
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1793 have permission to view the information.
f76d1642014a doc cleanup, editing and creation of a What's New
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2134
diff changeset
1794
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1795
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
diff changeset
1796 The request variable
1098
c5819344714c more doc
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1096
diff changeset
1797 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
diff changeset
1798
2407
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
1799 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest`` class.
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1800
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
1801 The request variable is packed with information about the current
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1802 request.
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1803
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1804 .. taken from ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest`` docstring
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1805
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1806 =========== ============================================================
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1807 Variable Holds
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
1808 =========== ============================================================
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1809 form the CGI form as a cgi.FieldStorage
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
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parents: 1070
diff changeset
1810 env the CGI environment variables
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1083
diff changeset
1811 base the base URL for this tracker
1073
cf30c6cdca02 More documentation.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1070
diff changeset
1812 user a HTMLUser instance for this user
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1813 classname the current classname (possibly None)
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1814 template the current template (suffix, also possibly None)
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1815 form the current CGI form variables in a FieldStorage
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1816 =========== ============================================================
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1817
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1818 **Index page specific variables (indexing arguments)**
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1819
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1820 =========== ============================================================
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1821 Variable Holds
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1822 =========== ============================================================
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1823 columns dictionary of the columns to display in an index page
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1824 show a convenience access to columns - request/show/colname will
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1825 be true if the columns should be displayed, false otherwise
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1826 sort index sort column (direction, column name)
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1827 group index grouping property (direction, column name)
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1828 filter properties to filter the index on
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1829 filterspec values to filter the index on
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1830 search_text text to perform a full-text search on for an index
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1831 =========== ============================================================
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1832
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1833 There are several methods available on the request variable:
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1834
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1835 =============== ========================================================
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1836 Method Description
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1837 =============== ========================================================
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1838 description render a description of the request - handle for the
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1839 page title
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1840 indexargs_form render the current index args as form elements
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1841 indexargs_url render the current index args as a URL
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1842 base_javascript render some javascript that is used by other components
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1843 of the templating
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1844 batch run the current index args through a filter and return a
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1845 list of items (see `hyperdb item wrapper`_, and
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1846 `batching`_)
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1847 =============== ========================================================
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1848
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1849 The form variable
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1850 :::::::::::::::::
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1851
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1852 The form variable is a bit special because it's actually a python
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1853 FieldStorage object. That means that you have two ways to access its
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1854 contents. For example, to look up the CGI form value for the variable
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1855 "name", use the path expression::
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1856
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1857 request/form/name/value
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1858
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1859 or the python expression::
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1860
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1861 python:request.form['name'].value
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1862
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1863 We use the "item" access used in the python case with an explicit "value"
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1864 attribute we have to access. That's because the form
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1865 variables are stored as MiniFieldStorages. If there's more than one
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1866 "name" value in the form, then the above will break since
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1867 ``request/form/name`` is actually a *list* of MiniFieldStorages. So it's
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1868 best to know beforehand what you're dealing with.
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1869
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1870
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1871 The db variable
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1872 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1873
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1874 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLDatabase`` class.
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1875
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1876 Allows access to all hyperdb classes as attributes of this variable. If
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1877 you want access to the "user" class, for example, you would use::
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1878
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1879 db/user
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1880 python:db.user
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1881
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1882 Also, the current id of the current user is available as
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1883 ``db.getuid()``. This isn't so useful in templates (where you have
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1884 ``request/user``), but it can be useful in detectors or interfaces.
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1885
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1886 The access results in a `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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1887
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1888
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1889 The templates variable
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1890 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1891
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1892 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.Templates`` class.
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1893
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1894 This variable doesn't have any useful methods defined. It supports being
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1895 used in expressions to access the templates, and consequently the
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1896 template macros. You may access the templates using the following path
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1897 expression::
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1898
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1899 templates/name
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1900
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1901 or the python expression::
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1902
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1903 templates[name]
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1904
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1905 where "name" is the name of the template you wish to access. The
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1906 template has one useful attribute, namely "macros". To access a specific
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1907 macro (called "macro_name"), use the path expression::
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1908
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1909 templates/name/macros/macro_name
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1910
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1911 or the python expression::
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1912
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1913 templates[name].macros[macro_name]
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1914
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1915
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1916 The utils variable
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1917 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1918
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1919 This is implemented by the ``roundup.cgi.templating.TemplatingUtils``
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1920 class, but it may be extended as described below.
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1921
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1922 =============== ========================================================
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1923 Method Description
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1924 =============== ========================================================
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1925 Batch return a batch object using the supplied list
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1926 url_quote quote some text as safe for a URL (ie. space, %, ...)
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1927 html_quote quote some text as safe in HTML (ie. <, >, ...)
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1928 =============== ========================================================
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1929
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1930 You may add additional utility methods by writing them in your tracker
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1931 ``interfaces.py`` module's ``TemplatingUtils`` class. See `adding a time
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1932 log to your issues`_ for an example. The TemplatingUtils class itself
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1933 will have a single attribute, ``client``, which may be used to access
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1934 the ``client.db`` when you need to perform arbitrary database queries.
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1935
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1936 Batching
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1937 ::::::::
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1938
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1939 Use Batch to turn a list of items, or item ids of a given class, into a
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1940 series of batches. Its usage is::
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1941
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1942 python:utils.Batch(sequence, size, start, end=0, orphan=0,
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1943 overlap=0)
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1944
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1945 or, to get the current index batch::
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1946
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1947 request/batch
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1948
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1949 The parameters are:
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1950
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1951 ========= ==============================================================
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1952 Parameter Usage
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1953 ========= ==============================================================
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1954 sequence a list of HTMLItems
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1955 size how big to make the sequence.
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1956 start where to start (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1957 end where to end (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1958 orphan if the next batch would contain less items than this value,
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1959 then it is combined with this batch
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1960 overlap the number of items shared between adjacent batches
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1962
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1963 All of the parameters are assigned as attributes on the batch object. In
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1964 addition, it has several more attributes:
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1965
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1967 Attribute Description
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1969 start indicates the start index of the batch. *unlike
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1970 the argument, is a 1-based index (I know, lame)*
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1971 first indicates the start index of the batch *as a 0-based
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1972 index*
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1973 length the actual number of elements in the batch
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1974 sequence_length the length of the original, unbatched, sequence.
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1975 =============== ========================================================
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1976
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1977 And several methods:
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1978
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1979 =============== ========================================================
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1980 Method Description
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1982 previous returns a new Batch with the previous batch settings
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1983 next returns a new Batch with the next batch settings
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1984 propchanged detect if the named property changed on the current item
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1985 when compared to the last item
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1986 =============== ========================================================
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1987
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1988 An example of batching::
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1989
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1990 <table class="otherinfo">
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1991 <tr><th colspan="4" class="header">Existing Keywords</th></tr>
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1992 <tr tal:define="keywords db/keyword/list"
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1993 tal:repeat="start python:range(0, len(keywords), 4)">
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1994 <td tal:define="batch python:utils.Batch(keywords, 4, start)"
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1995 tal:repeat="keyword batch" tal:content="keyword/name">
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1996 keyword here</td>
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1997 </tr>
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1998 </table>
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1999
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2000 ... which will produce a table with four columns containing the items of
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2001 the "keyword" class (well, their "name" anyway).
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2002
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2003 Displaying Properties
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2004 ---------------------
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2005
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2006 Properties appear in the user interface in three contexts: in indices,
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2007 in editors, and as search arguments. For each type of property, there
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2008 are several display possibilities. For example, in an index view, a
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2009 string property may just be printed as a plain string, but in an editor
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2010 view, that property may be displayed in an editable field.
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2011
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2012
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2013 Index Views
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2014 -----------
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2015
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2016 This is one of the class context views. It is also the default view for
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2017 classes. The template used is "*classname*.index".
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2018
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2019
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2020 Index View Specifiers
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2021 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2022
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2023 An index view specifier (URL fragment) looks like this (whitespace has
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2024 been added for clarity)::
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2025
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2026 /issue?status=unread,in-progress,resolved&
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2027 topic=security,ui&
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2028 :group=+priority&
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2029 :sort==activity&
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2030 :filters=status,topic&
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2031 :columns=title,status,fixer
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2032
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2033 The index view is determined by two parts of the specifier: the layout
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2034 part and the filter part. The layout part consists of the query
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2035 parameters that begin with colons, and it determines the way that the
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2036 properties of selected items are displayed. The filter part consists of
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2037 all the other query parameters, and it determines the criteria by which
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2038 items are selected for display. The filter part is interactively
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2039 manipulated with the form widgets displayed in the filter section. The
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2040 layout part is interactively manipulated by clicking on the column
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2041 headings in the table.
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2042
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2043 The filter part selects the union of the sets of items with values
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2044 matching any specified Link properties and the intersection of the sets
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2045 of items with values matching any specified Multilink properties.
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2046
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2047 The example specifies an index of "issue" items. Only items with a
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2048 "status" of either "unread" or "in-progress" or "resolved" are
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2049 displayed, and only items with "topic" values including both "security"
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2050 and "ui" are displayed. The items are grouped by priority, arranged in
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2051 ascending order; and within groups, sorted by activity, arranged in
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2052 descending order. The filter section shows filters for the "status" and
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2053 "topic" properties, and the table includes columns for the "title",
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2054 "status", and "fixer" properties.
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2055
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2056 Searching Views
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2057 ---------------
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2058
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2059 .. note::
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2060 If you add a new column to the ``:columns`` form variable
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2061 potentials then you will need to add the column to the appropriate
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2062 `index views`_ template so that it is actually displayed.
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2063
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2064 This is one of the class context views. The template used is typically
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2065 "*classname*.search". The form on this page should have "search" as its
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2066 ``@action`` variable. The "search" action:
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2067
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2068 - sets up additional filtering, as well as performing indexed text
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2069 searching
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2070 - sets the ``:filter`` variable correctly
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2071 - saves the query off if ``:query_name`` is set.
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2072
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2073 The search page should lay out any fields that you wish to allow the
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2074 user to search on. If your schema contains a large number of properties,
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2075 you should be wary of making all of those properties available for
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2076 searching, as this can cause confusion. If the additional properties are
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2077 Strings, consider having their value indexed, and then they will be
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2078 searchable using the full text indexed search. This is both faster, and
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2079 more useful for the end user.
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2080
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2081 The two special form values on search pages which are handled by the
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2082 "search" action are:
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2083
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2084 :search_text
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2085 Text with which to perform a search of the text index. Results from
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2086 that search will be used to limit the results of other filters (using
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2087 an intersection operation)
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2088 :query_name
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2089 If supplied, the search parameters (including :search_text) will be
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2090 saved off as a the query item and registered against the user's
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2091 queries property. The *classic* template schema has this ability, but
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2092 the *minimal* template schema does not.
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2093
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2094
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2095 Item Views
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2096 ----------
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2097
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2098 The basic view of a hyperdb item is provided by the "*classname*.item"
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2099 template. It generally has three sections; an "editor", a "spool" and a
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2100 "history" section.
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2101
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2102
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2103 Editor Section
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2104 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2105
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2106 The editor section is used to manipulate the item - it may be a static
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2107 display if the user doesn't have permission to edit the item.
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2108
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2109 Here's an example of a basic editor template (this is the default
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2110 "classic" template issue item edit form - from the "issue.item.html"
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2111 template)::
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2112
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2113 <table class="form">
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2114 <tr>
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2115 <th>Title</th>
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2116 <td colspan="3" tal:content="structure python:context.title.field(size=60)">title</td>
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2117 </tr>
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2118
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2119 <tr>
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2120 <th>Priority</th>
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2121 <td tal:content="structure context/priority/menu">priority</td>
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2122 <th>Status</th>
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2123 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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2124 </tr>
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2125
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2126 <tr>
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2127 <th>Superseder</th>
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2128 <td>
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2129 <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.field(showid=1, size=20)" />
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2130 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.issue.classhelp('id,title')" />
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2131 <span tal:condition="context/superseder">
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2132 <br>View: <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.link(showid=1)" />
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2133 </span>
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2134 </td>
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2135 <th>Nosy List</th>
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2136 <td>
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2137 <span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />
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2138 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.user.classhelp('username,realname,address,phone')" />
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2139 </td>
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2140 </tr>
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2141
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2142 <tr>
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2143 <th>Assigned To</th>
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2144 <td tal:content="structure context/assignedto/menu">
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2145 assignedto menu
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2146 </td>
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2147 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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2148 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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2149 </tr>
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2150
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2151 <tr>
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2152 <th>Change Note</th>
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2153 <td colspan="3">
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2154 <textarea name=":note" wrap="hard" rows="5" cols="60"></textarea>
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2155 </td>
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2156 </tr>
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2157
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2158 <tr>
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2159 <th>File</th>
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2160 <td colspan="3"><input type="file" name=":file" size="40"></td>
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2161 </tr>
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2162
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2163 <tr>
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2164 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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2165 <td colspan="3" tal:content="structure context/submit">
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2166 submit button will go here
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2167 </td>
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2168 </tr>
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2169 </table>
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2170
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2171
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2172 When a change is submitted, the system automatically generates a message
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2173 describing the changed properties. As shown in the example, the editor
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2174 template can use the ":note" and ":file" fields, which are added to the
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2175 standard changenote message generated by Roundup.
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2176
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2177
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2178 Form values
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2179 :::::::::::
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2180
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2181 We have a number of ways to pull properties out of the form in order to
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2182 meet the various needs of:
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2183
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2184 1. editing the current item (perhaps an issue item)
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2185 2. editing information related to the current item (eg. messages or
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2186 attached files)
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2187 3. creating new information to be linked to the current item (eg. time
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2188 spent on an issue)
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2189
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2190 In the following, ``<bracketed>`` values are variable, ":" may be one of
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2191 ":" or "@", and other text ("required") is fixed.
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2192
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2193 Properties are specified as form variables:
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2194
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2195 ``<propname>``
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2196 property on the current context item
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2197
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2198 ``<designator>:<propname>``
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2199 property on the indicated item (for editing related information)
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2200
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2201 ``<classname>-<N>:<propname>``
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2202 property on the Nth new item of classname (generally for creating new
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2203 items to attach to the current item)
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2204
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2205 Once we have determined the "propname", we check to see if it is one of
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2206 the special form values:
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2207
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2208 ``@required``
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2209 The named property values must be supplied or a ValueError will be
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2210 raised.
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2211
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2212 ``@remove@<propname>=id(s)``
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2213 The ids will be removed from the multilink property.
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2214
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2215 ``:add:<propname>=id(s)``
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2216 The ids will be added to the multilink property.
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2217
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2218 ``:link:<propname>=<designator>``
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2219 Used to add a link to new items created during edit. These are
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2220 collected and returned in ``all_links``. This will result in an
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2221 additional linking operation (either Link set or Multilink append)
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2222 after the edit/create is done using ``all_props`` in ``_editnodes``.
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2223 The <propname> on the current item will be set/appended the id of the
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2224 newly created item of class <designator> (where <designator> must be
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2225 <classname>-<N>).
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2226
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2227 Any of the form variables may be prefixed with a classname or
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2228 designator.
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2229
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2230 Two special form values are supported for backwards compatibility:
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2231
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2232 ``:note``
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2233 create a message (with content, author and date), linked to the
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2234 context item. This is ALWAYS designated "msg-1".
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2235 ``:file``
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2236 create a file, attached to the current item and any message created by
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2237 :note. This is ALWAYS designated "file-1".
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2239
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2240 Spool Section
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2241 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2242
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2243 The spool section lists related information like the messages and files
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2244 of an issue.
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2245
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2246 TODO
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2247
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2248
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2249 History Section
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2250 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2251
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2252 The final section displayed is the history of the item - its database
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2253 journal. This is generally generated with the template::
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2254
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2255 <tal:block tal:replace="structure context/history" />
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2256
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2257 *To be done:*
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2258
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2259 *The actual history entries of the item may be accessed for manual
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2260 templating through the "journal" method of the item*::
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2261
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2262 <tal:block tal:repeat="entry context/journal">
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2263 a journal entry
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2264 </tal:block>
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2265
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2266 *where each journal entry is an HTMLJournalEntry.*
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2267
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2268 Defining new web actions
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2269 ------------------------
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2270
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2271 You may define new actions to be triggered by the ``@action`` form variable.
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2272 These are added to the tracker ``interfaces.py`` as ``Action`` classes that get
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2273 called by the the ``Client`` class.
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2274
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2275 Adding action classes takes three steps; first you `define the new
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2276 action class`_, then you `register the action class`_ with the cgi
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2277 interface so it may be triggered by the ``@action`` form variable.
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2278 Finally you `use the new action`_ in your HTML form.
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2279
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2280 See "`setting up a "wizard" (or "druid") for controlled adding of
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2281 issues`_" for an example.
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2282
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2283
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2284 Define the new action class
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2285 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2286
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2287 The action classes have the following interface::
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2288
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2289 class MyAction(Action):
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2290 def handle(self):
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2291 ''' Perform some action. No return value is required.
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2292 '''
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2293
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2294 The *self.client* attribute is an instance of your tracker ``instance.Client``
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2295 class - thus it's mostly implemented by ``roundup.cgi.client.Client``. See the
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2296 docstring of that class for details of what it can do.
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2297
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2298 The method will typically check the ``self.form`` variable's contents.
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2299 It may then:
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2300
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2301 - add information to ``self.client.ok_message`` or ``self.client.error_message``
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2302 - change the ``self.client.template`` variable to alter what the user will see
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2303 next
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2304 - raise Unauthorised, SendStaticFile, SendFile, NotFound or Redirect
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2305 exceptions (import them from roundup.cgi.exceptions)
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2306
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2307
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2308 Register the action class
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2309 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2310
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2311 The class is now written, but isn't available to the user until you add it to
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2312 the ``instance.Client`` class ``actions`` variable, like so::
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2313
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2314 actions = client.Client.actions + (
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2315 ('myaction', myActionClass),
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2316 )
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2317
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2318 This maps the action name "myaction" to the action class we defined.
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2319
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2320 Use the new action
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2321 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2322
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2323 In your HTML form, add a hidden form element like so::
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2324
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2325 <input type="hidden" name="@action" value="myaction">
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2326
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2327 where "myaction" is the name you registered in the previous step.
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2328
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2329 Actions may return content to the user
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2330 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2331
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2332 Actions generally perform some database manipulation and then pass control
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2333 on to the rendering of a template in the current context (see `Determining
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2334 web context`_ for how that works.) Some actions will want to generate the
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2335 actual content returned to the user. Action methods may return their own
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2336 content string to be displayed to the user, overriding the templating step.
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2337 In this situation, we assume that the content is HTML by default. You may
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2338 override the content type indicated to the user by calling ``setHeader``::
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2339
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2340 self.client.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/csv')
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2341
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2342 This example indicates that the value sent back to the user is actually
f913b6beac35 document and make easier the actions-returning-content idiom
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2343 comma-separated value content (eg. something to be loaded into a
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2344 spreadsheet or database).
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2345
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2346
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2347 Examples
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2348 ========
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2349
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2350 .. contents::
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2351 :local:
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2352 :depth: 2
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2353
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2354
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2355 Changing what's stored in the database
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2356 --------------------------------------
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2357
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2358 The following examples illustrate ways to change the information stored in
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2359 the database.
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2360
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2361
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2362 Adding a new field to the classic schema
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2363 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1100
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2364
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2365 This example shows how to add a new constrained property (i.e. a
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2366 selection of distinct values) to your tracker.
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2367
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2368
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2369 Introduction
2156
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2370 ::::::::::::
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2371
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2372 To make the classic schema of roundup useful as a TODO tracking system
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2373 for a group of systems administrators, it needed an extra data field per
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2374 issue: a category.
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2375
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2376 This would let sysadmins quickly list all TODOs in their particular area
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2377 of interest without having to do complex queries, and without relying on
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2378 the spelling capabilities of other sysadmins (a losing proposition at
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2379 best).
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2382 Adding a field to the database
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2383 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2384
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2385 This is the easiest part of the change. The category would just be a
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2386 plain string, nothing fancy. To change what is in the database you need
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2387 to add some lines to the ``open()`` function in ``dbinit.py``. Under the
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2388 comment::
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2389
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2390 # add any additional database schema configuration here
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2391
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2392 add::
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2394 category = Class(db, "category", name=String())
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2395 category.setkey("name")
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2396
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2397 Here we are setting up a chunk of the database which we are calling
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2398 "category". It contains a string, which we are refering to as "name" for
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2399 lack of a more imaginative title. (Since "name" is one of the properties
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2400 that Roundup looks for on items if you do not set a key for them, it's
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2401 probably a good idea to stick with it for new classes if at all
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2402 appropriate.) Then we are setting the key of this chunk of the database
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2403 to be that "name". This is equivalent to an index for database types.
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2404 This also means that there can only be one category with a given name.
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2405
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2406 Adding the above lines allows us to create categories, but they're not
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2407 tied to the issues that we are going to be creating. It's just a list of
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2408 categories off on its own, which isn't much use. We need to link it in
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2409 with the issues. To do that, find the lines in the ``open()`` function
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2410 in ``dbinit.py`` which set up the "issue" class, and then add a link to
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2411 the category::
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2412
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2413 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", ... ,
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2414 category=Multilink("category"), ... )
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2415
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2416 The ``Multilink()`` means that each issue can have many categories. If
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2417 you were adding something with a one-to-one relationship to issues (such
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2418 as the "assignedto" property), use ``Link()`` instead.
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2419
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2420 That is all you need to do to change the schema. The rest of the effort
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2421 is fiddling around so you can actually use the new category.
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2422
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2423
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2424 Populating the new category class
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2425 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2426
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2427 If you haven't initialised the database with the roundup-admin
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2428 "initialise" command, then you can add the following to the tracker
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2429 ``dbinit.py`` in the ``init()`` function under the comment::
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2430
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2431 # add any additional database create steps here - but only if you
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2432 # haven't initialised the database with the admin "initialise" command
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2433
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2434 Add::
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2436 category = db.getclass('category')
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2437 category.create(name="scipy", order="1")
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2438 category.create(name="chaco", order="2")
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2439 category.create(name="weave", order="3")
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2440
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2441 If the database has already been initalised, then you need to use the
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2442 ``roundup-admin`` tool::
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2443
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2444 % roundup-admin -i <tracker home>
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2445 Roundup <version> ready for input.
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2446 Type "help" for help.
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2447 roundup> create category name=scipy order=1
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2448 1
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2449 roundup> create category name=chaco order=1
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2450 2
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2451 roundup> create category name=weave order=1
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2452 3
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2453 roundup> exit...
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2454 There are unsaved changes. Commit them (y/N)? y
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2455
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2456 TODO: explain why order=1 in each case.
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2459 Setting up security on the new objects
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2460 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2461
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2462 By default only the admin user can look at and change objects. This
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2463 doesn't suit us, as we want any user to be able to create new categories
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2464 as required, and obviously everyone needs to be able to view the
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2465 categories of issues for it to be useful.
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2466
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2467 We therefore need to change the security of the category objects. This
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2468 is also done in the ``open()`` function of ``dbinit.py``.
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2469
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2470 There are currently two loops which set up permissions and then assign
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2471 them to various roles. Simply add the new "category" to both lists::
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2473 # Assign the access and edit permissions for issue, file and message
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2474 # to regular users now
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2475 for cl in 'issue', 'file', 'msg', 'category':
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2476 p = db.security.getPermission('View', cl)
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2477 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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2478 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', cl)
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2479 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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2481 These lines assign the View and Edit Permissions to the "User" role, so
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2482 that normal users can view and edit "category" objects.
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2484 This is all the work that needs to be done for the database. It will
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2485 store categories, and let users view and edit them. Now on to the
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2486 interface stuff.
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2489 Changing the web left hand frame
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2490 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2492 We need to give the users the ability to create new categories, and the
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2493 place to put the link to this functionality is in the left hand function
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2494 bar, under the "Issues" area. The file that defines how this area looks
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2495 is ``html/page``, which is what we are going to be editing next.
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2496
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2497 If you look at this file you can see that it contains a lot of
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2498 "classblock" sections which are chunks of HTML that will be included or
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2499 excluded in the output depending on whether the condition in the
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2500 classblock is met. Under the end of the classblock for issue is where we
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2501 are going to add the category code::
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2503 <p class="classblock"
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2504 tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'category')">
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2505 <b>Categories</b><br>
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2506 <a tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit', 'category')"
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2507 href="category?@template=item">New Category<br></a>
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2508 </p>
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2509
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2510 The first two lines is the classblock definition, which sets up a
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2511 condition that only users who have "View" permission for the "category"
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2512 object will have this section included in their output. Next comes a
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2513 plain "Categories" header in bold. Everyone who can view categories will
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2514 get that.
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2515
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2516 Next comes the link to the editing area of categories. This link will
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2517 only appear if the condition - that the user has "Edit" permissions for
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2518 the "category" objects - is matched. If they do have permission then
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2519 they will get a link to another page which will let the user add new
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2520 categories.
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2521
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2522 If you have permission to *view* but not to *edit* categories,
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2523 then all you will see is a "Categories" header with nothing underneath
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2524 it. This is obviously not very good interface design, but will do for
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2525 now. I just claim that it is so I can add more links in this section
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2526 later on. However to fix the problem you could change the condition in
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2527 the classblock statement, so that only users with "Edit" permission
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2528 would see the "Categories" stuff.
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2529
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2531 Setting up a page to edit categories
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2532 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2533
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2534 We defined code in the previous section which let users with the
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2535 appropriate permissions see a link to a page which would let them edit
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2536 conditions. Now we have to write that page.
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2537
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2538 The link was for the *item* template of the *category* object. This
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2539 translates into Roundup looking for a file called ``category.item.html``
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2540 in the ``html`` tracker directory. This is the file that we are going to
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2541 write now.
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2542
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2543 First we add an info tag in a comment which doesn't affect the outcome
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2544 of the code at all, but is useful for debugging. If you load a page in a
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2545 browser and look at the page source, you can see which sections come
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2546 from which files by looking for these comments::
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2547
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2548 <!-- category.item -->
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2549
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2550 Next we need to add in the METAL macro stuff so we get the normal page
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2551 trappings::
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2552
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2553 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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2554 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">Category editing</title>
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2555 <td class="page-header-top" metal:fill-slot="body_title">
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2556 <h2>Category editing</h2>
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2557 </td>
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2558 <td class="content" metal:fill-slot="content">
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2560 Next we need to setup up a standard HTML form, which is the whole
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2561 purpose of this file. We link to some handy javascript which sends the
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2562 form through only once. This is to stop users hitting the send button
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2563 multiple times when they are impatient and thus having the form sent
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2564 multiple times::
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2565
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2566 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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2567 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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2568
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2569 Next we define some code which sets up the minimum list of fields that
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2570 we require the user to enter. There will be only one field - "name" - so
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2571 they better put something in it, otherwise the whole form is pointless::
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2572
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2573 <input type="hidden" name="@required" value="name">
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2575 To get everything to line up properly we will put everything in a table,
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2576 and put a nice big header on it so the user has an idea what is
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2577 happening::
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2578
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2579 <table class="form">
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2580 <tr><th class="header" colspan="2">Category</th></tr>
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2581
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2582 Next, we need the field into which the user is going to enter the new
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2583 category. The "context.name.field(size=60)" bit tells Roundup to
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2584 generate a normal HTML field of size 60, and the contents of that field
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2585 will be the "name" variable of the current context (which is
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2586 "category"). The upshot of this is that when the user types something in
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2587 to the form, a new category will be created with that name::
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2588
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2589 <tr>
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2590 <th>Name</th>
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2591 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">
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2592 name</td>
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2593 </tr>
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2594
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2595 Then a submit button so that the user can submit the new category::
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2596
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2597 <tr>
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2598 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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2599 <td colspan="3" tal:content="structure context/submit">
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2600 submit button will go here
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2601 </td>
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2602 </tr>
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2603
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2604 Finally we finish off the tags we used at the start to do the METAL
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2605 stuff::
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2606
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2607 </td>
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2608 </tal:block>
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2609
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2610 So putting it all together, and closing the table and form we get::
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2611
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2612 <!-- category.item -->
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2613 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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2614 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">Category editing</title>
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2615 <td class="page-header-top" metal:fill-slot="body_title">
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2616 <h2>Category editing</h2>
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2617 </td>
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2618 <td class="content" metal:fill-slot="content">
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2619 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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2620 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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2622 <table class="form">
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2623 <tr><th class="header" colspan="2">Category</th></tr>
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2624
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2625 <tr>
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2626 <th>Name</th>
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2627 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">
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2628 name</td>
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2629 </tr>
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2630
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2631 <tr>
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2632 <td>
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2633 &nbsp;
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2634 <input type="hidden" name="@required" value="name">
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2635 </td>
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2636 <td colspan="3" tal:content="structure context/submit">
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2637 submit button will go here
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2638 </td>
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2639 </tr>
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2640 </table>
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2641 </form>
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2642 </td>
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2643 </tal:block>
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2645 This is quite a lot to just ask the user one simple question, but there
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2646 is a lot of setup for basically one line (the form line) to do its work.
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2647 To add another field to "category" would involve one more line (well,
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2648 maybe a few extra to get the formatting correct).
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2649
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2651 Adding the category to the issue
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2652 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2653
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2654 We now have the ability to create issues to our heart's content, but
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2655 that is pointless unless we can assign categories to issues. Just like
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2656 the ``html/category.item.html`` file was used to define how to add a new
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2657 category, the ``html/issue.item.html`` is used to define how a new issue
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2658 is created.
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2659
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2660 Just like ``category.issue.html`` this file defines a form which has a
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2661 table to lay things out. It doesn't matter where in the table we add new
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2662 stuff, it is entirely up to your sense of aesthetics::
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2663
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2664 <th>Category</th>
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2665 <td><span tal:replace="structure context/category/field" />
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2666 <span tal:replace="structure db/category/classhelp" />
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2667 </td>
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2668
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2669 First, we define a nice header so that the user knows what the next
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2670 section is, then the middle line does what we are most interested in.
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2671 This ``context/category/field`` gets replaced by a field which contains
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2672 the category in the current context (the current context being the new
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2673 issue).
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2675 The classhelp lines generate a link (labelled "list") to a popup window
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2676 which contains the list of currently known categories.
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2677
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2678
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2679 Searching on categories
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2680 :::::::::::::::::::::::
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2681
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2682 We can add categories, and create issues with categories. The next
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2683 obvious thing that we would like to be able to do, would be to search
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2684 for issues based on their category, so that, for example, anyone working
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2685 on the web server could look at all issues in the category "Web".
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2686
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2687 If you look for "Search Issues" in the 'html/page.html' file, you will
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2688 find that it looks something like
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2689 ``<a href="issue?@template=search">Search Issues</a>``. This shows us
1674
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2690 that when you click on "Search Issues" it will be looking for a
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2691 ``issue.search.html`` file to display. So that is the file that we will
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2692 change.
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2693
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2694 If you look at this file it should be starting to seem familiar, although it
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2695 does use some new macros. You can add the new category search code anywhere you
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2696 like within that form::
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2697
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2698 <tr tal:define="name string:category;
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2699 db_klass string:category;
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2700 db_content string:name;">
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2701 <th>Priority:</th>
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2702 <td metal:use-macro="search_select"></td>
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2703 <td metal:use-macro="column_input"></td>
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2704 <td metal:use-macro="sort_input"></td>
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2705 <td metal:use-macro="group_input"></td>
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2706 </tr>
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2707
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2708 The definitions in the <tr> opening tag are used by the macros:
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2709
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2710 - search_select expands to a drop-down box with all categories using db_klass
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2711 and db_content.
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2712 - column_input expands to a checkbox for selecting what columns should be
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2713 displayed.
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2714 - sort_input expands to a radio button for selecting what property should be
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2715 sorted on.
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2716 - group_input expands to a radio button for selecting what property should be
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2717 group on.
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2718
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2719 The category search code above would expand to the following::
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2720
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2721 <tr>
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2722 <th>Category:</th>
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2723 <td>
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2724 <select name="category">
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2725 <option value="">don't care</option>
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2726 <option value="">------------</option>
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2727 <option value="1">scipy</option>
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2728 <option value="2">chaco</option>
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2729 <option value="3">weave</option>
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2730 </select>
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2731 </td>
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2732 <td><input type="checkbox" name=":columns" value="category"></td>
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2733 <td><input type="radio" name=":sort" value="category"></td>
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2734 <td><input type="radio" name=":group" value="category"></td>
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2735 </tr>
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2736
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2737 Adding category to the default view
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2738 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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2739
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2740 We can now add categories, add issues with categories, and search for
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2741 issues based on categories. This is everything that we need to do;
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2742 however, there is some more icing that we would like. I think the
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2743 category of an issue is important enough that it should be displayed by
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2744 default when listing all the issues.
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2745
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2746 Unfortunately, this is a bit less obvious than the previous steps. The
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2747 code defining how the issues look is in ``html/issue.index.html``. This
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2748 is a large table with a form down at the bottom for redisplaying and so
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2749 forth.
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2751 Firstly we need to add an appropriate header to the start of the table::
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2752
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2753 <th tal:condition="request/show/category">Category</th>
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2754
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2755 The *condition* part of this statement is to avoid displaying the
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2756 Category column if the user has selected not to see it.
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2757
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2758 The rest of the table is a loop which will go through every issue that
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2759 matches the display criteria. The loop variable is "i" - which means
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2760 that every issue gets assigned to "i" in turn.
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2761
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2762 The new part of code to display the category will look like this::
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2763
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2764 <td tal:condition="request/show/category"
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2765 tal:content="i/category"></td>
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2767 The condition is the same as above: only display the condition when the
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2768 user hasn't asked for it to be hidden. The next part is to set the
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2769 content of the cell to be the category part of "i" - the current issue.
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2770
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2771 Finally we have to edit ``html/page.html`` again. This time, we need to
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2772 tell it that when the user clicks on "Unasigned Issues" or "All Issues",
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2773 the category column should be included in the resulting list. If you
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2774 scroll down the page file, you can see the links with lots of options.
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2775 The option that we are interested in is the ``:columns=`` one which
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2776 tells roundup which fields of the issue to display. Simply add
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2777 "category" to that list and it all should work.
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2778
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2779 Adding a time log to your issues
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2780 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2781
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2782 We want to log the dates and amount of time spent working on issues, and
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2783 be able to give a summary of the total time spent on a particular issue.
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2784
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2785 1. Add a new class to your tracker ``dbinit.py``::
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2786
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2787 # storage for time logging
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2788 timelog = Class(db, "timelog", period=Interval())
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2789
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2790 We automatically get the date of the time log entry
1674
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2791 creation through the standard property "creation".
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2792
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2793 2. Link to the new class from your issue class (again, in
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2794 ``dbinit.py``)::
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2795
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2796 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue",
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2797 assignedto=Link("user"), topic=Multilink("keyword"),
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2798 priority=Link("priority"), status=Link("status"),
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2799 times=Multilink("timelog"))
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2800
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2801 the "times" property is the new link to the "timelog" class.
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2802
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2803 3. We'll need to let people add in times to the issue, so in the web
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2804 interface we'll have a new entry field. This is a special field
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2805 because unlike the other fields in the issue.item template, it
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2806 affects a different item (a timelog item) and not the template's
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2807 item, an issue. We have a special syntax for form fields that affect
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2808 items other than the template default item (see the cgi
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2809 documentation on `special form variables`_). In particular, we add a
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2810 field to capture a new timelog item's perdiod::
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2811
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2812 <tr>
1825
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2813 <th>Time Log</th>
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2814 <td colspan=3><input type="text" name="timelog-1@period" />
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diff changeset
2815 <br />(enter as '3y 1m 4d 2:40:02' or parts thereof)
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2816 </td>
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2817 </tr>
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2818
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2819 and another hidden field that links that new timelog item (new
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diff changeset
2820 because it's marked as having id "-1") to the issue item. It looks
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diff changeset
2821 like this::
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2822
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diff changeset
2823 <input type="hidden" name="@link@times" value="timelog-1" />
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diff changeset
2824
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diff changeset
2825 On submission, the "-1" timelog item will be created and assigned a
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diff changeset
2826 real item id. The "times" property of the issue will have the new id
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diff changeset
2827 added to it.
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diff changeset
2828
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diff changeset
2829 4. We want to display a total of the time log times that have been
1674
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2830 accumulated for an issue. To do this, we'll need to actually write
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2831 some Python code, since it's beyond the scope of PageTemplates to
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2832 perform such calculations. We do this by adding a method to the
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2833 TemplatingUtils class in our tracker ``interfaces.py`` module::
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2834
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diff changeset
2835 class TemplatingUtils:
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2836 ''' Methods implemented on this class will be available to HTML
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diff changeset
2837 templates through the 'utils' variable.
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2838 '''
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2839 def totalTimeSpent(self, times):
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2840 ''' Call me with a list of timelog items (which have an
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diff changeset
2841 Interval "period" property)
1270
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diff changeset
2842 '''
1980
8a6077ec701b *** empty log message ***
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diff changeset
2843 total = Interval('0d')
1270
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diff changeset
2844 for time in times:
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diff changeset
2845 total += time.period._value
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2846 return total
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2847
1980
8a6077ec701b *** empty log message ***
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2848 Replace the ``pass`` line if one appears in your TemplatingUtils
1674
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2849 class. As indicated in the docstrings, we will be able to access the
1980
8a6077ec701b *** empty log message ***
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diff changeset
2850 ``totalTimeSpent`` method via the ``utils`` variable in our templates.
1270
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2851
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2852 5. Display the time log for an issue::
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2853
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2854 <table class="otherinfo" tal:condition="context/times">
1270
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diff changeset
2855 <tr><th colspan="3" class="header">Time Log
1674
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diff changeset
2856 <tal:block
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diff changeset
2857 tal:replace="python:utils.totalTimeSpent(context.times)" />
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2858 </th></tr>
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2859 <tr><th>Date</th><th>Period</th><th>Logged By</th></tr>
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diff changeset
2860 <tr tal:repeat="time context/times">
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2861 <td tal:content="time/creation"></td>
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2862 <td tal:content="time/period"></td>
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2863 <td tal:content="time/creator"></td>
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2864 </tr>
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2865 </table>
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2866
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2867 I put this just above the Messages log in my issue display. We use
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parents: 2404
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2868 the ``totalTimeSpent`` method which will total up the times
1674
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diff changeset
2869 for the issue and return a new Interval. That will be automatically
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2870 displayed in the template as text like "+ 1y 2:40" (1 year, 2 hours
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
2871 and 40 minutes).
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2872
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2873 8. If you're using a persistent web server - roundup-server or
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
2874 mod_python for example - then you'll need to restart that to pick up
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
2875 the code changes. When that's done, you'll be able to use the new
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parents: 1671
diff changeset
2876 time logging interface.
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2877
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2878
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2879 Tracking different types of issues
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2880 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2881
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2882 Sometimes you will want to track different types of issues - developer,
2159
c22329f379ae *** empty log message ***
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parents: 2156
diff changeset
2883 customer support, systems, sales leads, etc. A single Roundup tracker is
2156
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2884 able to support multiple types of issues. This example demonstrates adding
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2885 a customer support issue class to a tracker.
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2886
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2887 1. Figure out what information you're going to want to capture. OK, so
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2888 this is obvious, but sometimes it's better to actually sit down for a
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2889 while and think about the schema you're going to implement.
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diff changeset
2890
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diff changeset
2891 2. Add the new issue class to your tracker's ``dbinit.py`` - in this
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2892 example, we're adding a "system support" class. Just after the "issue"
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2893 class definition in the "open" function, add::
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diff changeset
2894
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diff changeset
2895 support = IssueClass(db, "support",
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2896 assignedto=Link("user"), topic=Multilink("keyword"),
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2897 status=Link("status"), deadline=Date(),
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
2898 affects=Multilink("system"))
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2899
2159
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2900 3. Copy the existing "issue.*" (item, search and index) templates in the
c22329f379ae *** empty log message ***
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parents: 2156
diff changeset
2901 tracker's "html" to "support.*". Edit them so they use the properties
c22329f379ae *** empty log message ***
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parents: 2156
diff changeset
2902 defined in the "support" class. Be sure to check for hidden form
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diff changeset
2903 variables like "required" to make sure they have the correct set of
c22329f379ae *** empty log message ***
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diff changeset
2904 required properties.
c22329f379ae *** empty log message ***
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2905
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2906 4. Edit the modules in the "detectors", adding lines to their "init"
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2907 functions where appropriate. Look for "audit" and "react" registrations
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2908 on the "issue" class, and duplicate them for "support".
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2909
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2910 5. Create a new sidebar box for the new support class. Duplicate the
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2911 existing issues one, changing the "issue" class name to "support".
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2912
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2913 6. Re-start your tracker and start using the new "support" class.
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2914
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2915
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2916 Optionally, you might want to restrict the users able to access this new
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2917 class to just the users with a new "SysAdmin" Role. To do this, we add
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2918 some security declarations::
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2919
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2920 p = db.security.getPermission('View', 'support')
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2921 db.security.addPermissionToRole('SysAdmin', p)
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2922 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', 'support')
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2923 db.security.addPermissionToRole('SysAdmin', p)
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2924
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2925 You would then (as an "admin" user) edit the details of the appropriate
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2926 users, and add "SysAdmin" to their Roles list.
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2927
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2928 Alternatively, you might want to change the Edit/View permissions granted
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2929 for the "issue" class so that it's only available to users with the "System"
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2930 or "Developer" Role, and then the new class you're adding is available to
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2931 all with the "User" Role.
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2932
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2933
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2934 Using External User Databases
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2935 -----------------------------
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2936
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2937 Using an external password validation source
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2938 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2939
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2940 We have a centrally-managed password changing system for our users. This
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2941 results in a UN*X passwd-style file that we use for verification of
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2942 users. Entries in the file consist of ``name:password`` where the
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2943 password is encrypted using the standard UN*X ``crypt()`` function (see
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2944 the ``crypt`` module in your Python distribution). An example entry
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2945 would be::
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2946
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2947 admin:aamrgyQfDFSHw
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2948
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2949 Each user of Roundup must still have their information stored in the Roundup
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2950 database - we just use the passwd file to check their password. To do this, we
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2951 need to override the standard ``verifyPassword`` method defined in
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2952 ``roundup.cgi.actions.LoginAction`` and register the new class with our
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2953 ``Client`` class in the tracker home ``interfaces.py`` module::
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2954
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2955 from roundup.cgi.actions import LoginAction
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2956
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2957 class ExternalPasswordLoginAction(LoginAction):
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2958 def verifyPassword(self, userid, password):
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2959 # get the user's username
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2960 username = self.db.user.get(userid, 'username')
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2961
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2962 # the passwords are stored in the "passwd.txt" file in the
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2963 # tracker home
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2964 file = os.path.join(self.db.config.TRACKER_HOME, 'passwd.txt')
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2965
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2966 # see if we can find a match
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2967 for ent in [line.strip().split(':') for line in
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2968 open(file).readlines()]:
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2969 if ent[0] == username:
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2970 return crypt.crypt(password, ent[1][:2]) == ent[1]
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2971
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2972 # user doesn't exist in the file
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2973 return 0
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2974
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2975 class Client(client.Client):
2583
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2976 actions = (
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2977 ('login', ExternalPasswordLoginAction),
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2978 ) + client.Client.actions
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2979
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2980 What this does is look through the file, line by line, looking for a
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2981 name that matches.
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2982
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2983 We also remove the redundant password fields from the ``user.item``
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2984 template.
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2985
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2986
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2987 Using a UN*X passwd file as the user database
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2988 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2989
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2990 On some systems the primary store of users is the UN*X passwd file. It
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2991 holds information on users such as their username, real name, password
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2992 and primary user group.
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2993
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2994 Roundup can use this store as its primary source of user information,
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2995 but it needs additional information too - email address(es), roundup
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2996 Roles, vacation flags, roundup hyperdb item ids, etc. Also, "retired"
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2997 users must still exist in the user database, unlike some passwd files in
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2998 which the users are removed when they no longer have access to a system.
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2999
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3000 To make use of the passwd file, we therefore synchronise between the two
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3001 user stores. We also use the passwd file to validate the user logins, as
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3002 described in the previous example, `using an external password
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3003 validation source`_. We keep the users lists in sync using a fairly
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3004 simple script that runs once a day, or several times an hour if more
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3005 immediate access is needed. In short, it:
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3006
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3007 1. parses the passwd file, finding usernames, passwords and real names,
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3008 2. compares that list to the current roundup user list:
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3009
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3010 a. entries no longer in the passwd file are *retired*
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3011 b. entries with mismatching real names are *updated*
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3012 c. entries only exist in the passwd file are *created*
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3013
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3014 3. send an email to administrators to let them know what's been done.
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3015
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3016 The retiring and updating are simple operations, requiring only a call
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3017 to ``retire()`` or ``set()``. The creation operation requires more
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3018 information though - the user's email address and their roundup Roles.
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3019 We're going to assume that the user's email address is the same as their
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3020 login name, so we just append the domain name to that. The Roles are
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3021 determined using the passwd group identifier - mapping their UN*X group
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3022 to an appropriate set of Roles.
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3023
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3024 The script to perform all this, broken up into its main components, is
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3025 as follows. Firstly, we import the necessary modules and open the
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3026 tracker we're to work on::
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3027
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3028 import sys, os, smtplib
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3029 from roundup import instance, date
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3030
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3031 # open the tracker
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3032 tracker_home = sys.argv[1]
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3033 tracker = instance.open(tracker_home)
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3034
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3035 Next we read in the *passwd* file from the tracker home::
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3036
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3037 # read in the users
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3038 file = os.path.join(tracker_home, 'users.passwd')
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3039 users = [x.strip().split(':') for x in open(file).readlines()]
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parents: 1278
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3040
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3041 Handle special users (those to ignore in the file, and those who don't
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parents: 1671
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3042 appear in the file)::
1292
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parents: 1278
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3043
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
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3044 # users to not keep ever, pre-load with the users I know aren't
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
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3045 # "real" users
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3046 ignore = ['ekmmon', 'bfast', 'csrmail']
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3047
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3048 # users to keep - pre-load with the roundup-specific users
1674
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diff changeset
3049 keep = ['comment_pool', 'network_pool', 'admin', 'dev-team',
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parents: 1671
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3050 'cs_pool', 'anonymous', 'system_pool', 'automated']
1292
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parents: 1278
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3051
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3052 Now we map the UN*X group numbers to the Roles that users should have::
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3053
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3054 roles = {
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3055 '501': 'User,Tech', # tech
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
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3056 '502': 'User', # finance
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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3057 '503': 'User,CSR', # customer service reps
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3058 '504': 'User', # sales
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
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3059 '505': 'User', # marketing
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3060 }
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3061
2407
ef226254ef46 some more documentation work
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2404
diff changeset
3062 Now we do all the work. The body of the script (where we have
1674
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
3063 the tracker database open) is wrapped in a ``try`` / ``finally`` clause,
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
3064 so that we always close the database cleanly when we're finished. So, we
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
3065 now do all the work::
1292
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3066
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3067 # open the database
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3068 db = tracker.open('admin')
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3069 try:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3070 # store away messages to send to the tracker admins
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3071 msg = []
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3072
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3073 # loop over the users list read in from the passwd file
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3074 for user,passw,uid,gid,real,home,shell in users:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3075 if user in ignore:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3076 # this user shouldn't appear in our tracker
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3077 continue
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3078 keep.append(user)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3079 try:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3080 # see if the user exists in the tracker
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3081 uid = db.user.lookup(user)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3082
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3083 # yes, they do - now check the real name for correctness
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3084 if real != db.user.get(uid, 'realname'):
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3085 db.user.set(uid, realname=real)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3086 msg.append('FIX %s - %s'%(user, real))
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3087 except KeyError:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3088 # nope, the user doesn't exist
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3089 db.user.create(username=user, realname=real,
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3090 address='%s@ekit-inc.com'%user, roles=roles[gid])
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3091 msg.append('ADD %s - %s (%s)'%(user, real, roles[gid]))
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3092
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Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
3093 # now check that all the users in the tracker are also in our
0807e3676133 Reflowed to 72 columns, some tidying, updating & rephrasing ..
Jean Jordaan <neaj@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1671
diff changeset
3094 # "keep" list - retire those who aren't
1292
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3095 for uid in db.user.list():
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3096 user = db.user.get(uid, 'username')
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3097 if user not in keep:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3098 db.user.retire(uid)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3099 msg.append('RET %s'%user)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3100
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3101 # if we did work, then send email to the tracker admins
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3102 if msg:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3103 # create the email
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3104 msg = '''Subject: %s user database maintenance
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3105
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3106 %s
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3107 '''%(db.config.TRACKER_NAME, '\n'.join(msg))
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3108
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3109 # send the email
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3110 smtp = smtplib.SMTP(db.config.MAILHOST)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3111 addr = db.config.ADMIN_EMAIL
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3112 smtp.sendmail(addr, addr, msg)
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3113
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3114 # now we're done - commit the changes
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3115 db.commit()
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
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parents: 1278
diff changeset
3116 finally:
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3117 # always close the database cleanly
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3118 db.close()
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3119
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3120 And that's it!
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3121
f7d9fefcae88 Fixes for SourceForge tracker bugs.
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1278
diff changeset
3122
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3123 Using an LDAP database for user information
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1680
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3125
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3126 A script that reads users from an LDAP store using
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3127 http://python-ldap.sf.net/ and then compares the list to the users in the
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3128 roundup user database would be pretty easy to write. You'd then have it run
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3129 once an hour / day (or on demand if you can work that into your LDAP store
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3130 workflow). See the example `Using a UN*X passwd file as the user database`_
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3131 for more information about doing this.
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3132
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3133 To authenticate off the LDAP store (rather than using the passwords in the
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3134 roundup user database) you'd use the same python-ldap module inside an
2017
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
3135 extension to the cgi interface. You'd do this by overriding the method called
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
3136 "verifyPassword" on the LoginAction class in your tracker's interfaces.py
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
3137 module (see `using an external password validation source`_). The method is
31d920b31642 Update customization examples too, expand upgrade notice a bit.
Johannes Gijsbers <jlgijsbers@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2016
diff changeset
3138 implemented by default as::
1680
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3139
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3140 def verifyPassword(self, userid, password):
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3141 ''' Verify the password that the user has supplied
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3142 '''
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3143 stored = self.db.user.get(self.userid, 'password')
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3144 if password == stored:
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3145 return 1
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3146 if not password and not stored:
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3147 return 1
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3148 return 0
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1679
diff changeset
3149
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3150 So you could reimplement this as something like::
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3151
86cc794cc3a0 added simplistic LDAP authentication example
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3152 def verifyPassword(self, userid, password):
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3153 ''' Verify the password that the user has supplied
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3154 '''
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3155 # look up some unique LDAP information about the user
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3156 username = self.db.user.get(self.userid, 'username')
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3157 # now verify the password supplied against the LDAP store
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3158
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parents: 1679
diff changeset
3159
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3160 Changes to Tracker Behaviour
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3161 ----------------------------
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3162
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3163 Stop "nosy" messages going to people on vacation
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3164 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3165
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3166 When users go on vacation and set up vacation email bouncing, you'll
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3167 start to see a lot of messages come back through Roundup "Fred is on
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3168 vacation". Not very useful, and relatively easy to stop.
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3169
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3170 1. add a "vacation" flag to your users::
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3171
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3172 user = Class(db, "user",
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3173 username=String(), password=Password(),
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3174 address=String(), realname=String(),
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3175 phone=String(), organisation=String(),
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3176 alternate_addresses=String(),
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3177 roles=String(), queries=Multilink("query"),
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3178 vacation=Boolean())
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3179
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3180 2. So that users may edit the vacation flags, add something like the
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3181 following to your ``user.item`` template::
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3182
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3183 <tr>
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3184 <th>On Vacation</th>
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3185 <td tal:content="structure context/vacation/field">vacation</td>
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3186 </tr>
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3187
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3188 3. edit your detector ``nosyreactor.py`` so that the ``nosyreaction()``
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3189 consists of::
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3190
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3191 def nosyreaction(db, cl, nodeid, oldvalues):
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3192 users = db.user
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3193 messages = db.msg
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3194 # send a copy of all new messages to the nosy list
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3195 for msgid in determineNewMessages(cl, nodeid, oldvalues):
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3196 try:
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3197 # figure the recipient ids
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3198 sendto = []
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3199 seen_message = {}
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3200 recipients = messages.get(msgid, 'recipients')
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3201 for recipid in messages.get(msgid, 'recipients'):
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3202 seen_message[recipid] = 1
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3203
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3204 # figure the author's id, and indicate they've received
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3205 # the message
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3206 authid = messages.get(msgid, 'author')
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3207
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3208 # possibly send the message to the author, as long as
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3209 # they aren't anonymous
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3210 if (db.config.MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR == 'yes' and
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3211 users.get(authid, 'username') != 'anonymous'):
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3212 sendto.append(authid)
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3213 seen_message[authid] = 1
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3214
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3215 # now figure the nosy people who weren't recipients
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3216 nosy = cl.get(nodeid, 'nosy')
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3217 for nosyid in nosy:
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3218 # Don't send nosy mail to the anonymous user (that
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3219 # user shouldn't appear in the nosy list, but just
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3220 # in case they do...)
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3221 if users.get(nosyid, 'username') == 'anonymous':
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3222 continue
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3223 # make sure they haven't seen the message already
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3224 if not seen_message.has_key(nosyid):
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3225 # send it to them
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3226 sendto.append(nosyid)
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3227 recipients.append(nosyid)
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3228
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3229 # generate a change note
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3230 if oldvalues:
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3231 note = cl.generateChangeNote(nodeid, oldvalues)
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3232 else:
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3233 note = cl.generateCreateNote(nodeid)
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3234
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3235 # we have new recipients
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3236 if sendto:
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3237 # filter out the people on vacation
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3238 sendto = [i for i in sendto
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3239 if not users.get(i, 'vacation', 0)]
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3240
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3241 # map userids to addresses
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3242 sendto = [users.get(i, 'address') for i in sendto]
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3243
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3244 # update the message's recipients list
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3245 messages.set(msgid, recipients=recipients)
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3246
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3247 # send the message
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3248 cl.send_message(nodeid, msgid, note, sendto)
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3249 except roundupdb.MessageSendError, message:
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3250 raise roundupdb.DetectorError, message
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3251
2407
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3252 This is the standard nosy reaction code, with the small addition of::
2156
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3253
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3254 # filter out the people on vacation
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3255 sendto = [i for i in sendto if not users.get(i, 'vacation', 0)]
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3256
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3257 which filters out the users that have the vacation flag set to true.
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3258
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3259 Adding in state transition control
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3260 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3261
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3262 Sometimes tracker admins want to control the states that users may move
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3263 issues to. You can do this by following these steps:
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3264
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3265 1. make "status" a required variable. This is achieved by adding the
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3266 following to the top of the form in the ``issue.item.html``
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3267 template::
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3268
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3269 <input type="hidden" name="@required" value="status">
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3270
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3271 this will force users to select a status.
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3272
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3273 2. add a Multilink property to the status class::
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3274
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3275 stat = Class(db, "status", ... , transitions=Multilink('status'),
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3276 ...)
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3277
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3278 and then edit the statuses already created, either:
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3279
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3280 a. through the web using the class list -> status class editor, or
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3281 b. using the roundup-admin "set" command.
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3282
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3283 3. add an auditor module ``checktransition.py`` in your tracker's
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3284 ``detectors`` directory, for example::
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3285
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3286 def checktransition(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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3287 ''' Check that the desired transition is valid for the "status"
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3288 property.
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3289 '''
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3290 if not newvalues.has_key('status'):
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3291 return
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3292 current = cl.get(nodeid, 'status')
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3293 new = newvalues['status']
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3294 if new == current:
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3295 return
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3296 ok = db.status.get(current, 'transitions')
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3297 if new not in ok:
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3298 raise ValueError, 'Status not allowed to move from "%s" to "%s"'%(
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3299 db.status.get(current, 'name'), db.status.get(new, 'name'))
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3300
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3301 def init(db):
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3302 db.issue.audit('set', checktransition)
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3303
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3304 4. in the ``issue.item.html`` template, change the status editing bit
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3305 from::
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3306
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3307 <th>Status</th>
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3308 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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3309
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3310 to::
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3311
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3312 <th>Status</th>
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3313 <td>
2156
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3314 <select tal:condition="context/id" name="status">
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3315 <tal:block tal:define="ok context/status/transitions"
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3316 tal:repeat="state db/status/list">
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3317 <option tal:condition="python:state.id in ok"
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3318 tal:attributes="
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3319 value state/id;
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3320 selected python:state.id == context.status.id"
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3321 tal:content="state/name"></option>
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3322 </tal:block>
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3323 </select>
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3324 <tal:block tal:condition="not:context/id"
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3325 tal:replace="structure context/status/menu" />
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3326 </td>
2156
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3327
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3328 which displays only the allowed status to transition to.
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3329
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3330
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3331 Blocking issues that depend on other issues
2156
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3332 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3333
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3334 We needed the ability to mark certain issues as "blockers" - that is,
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3335 they can't be resolved until another issue (the blocker) they rely on is
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3336 resolved. To achieve this:
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3337
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3338 1. Create a new property on the issue Class,
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3339 ``blockers=Multilink("issue")``. Edit your tracker's dbinit.py file.
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3340 Where the "issue" class is defined, something like::
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3341
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3342 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue",
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3343 assignedto=Link("user"), topic=Multilink("keyword"),
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3344 priority=Link("priority"), status=Link("status"))
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3345
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3346 add the blockers entry like so::
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3347
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3348 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue",
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3349 blockers=Multilink("issue"),
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3350 assignedto=Link("user"), topic=Multilink("keyword"),
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diff changeset
3351 priority=Link("priority"), status=Link("status"))
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3352
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3353 2. Add the new "blockers" property to the issue.item edit page, using
1560
3f2e516b8de3 doc fixes
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3354 something like::
1559
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3355
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fad32dafc174 Replaced all uses of the 'nowrap' attribute with its CSS equivalent:
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3356 <th>Waiting On</th>
1559
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3357 <td>
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3358 <span tal:replace="structure python:context.blockers.field(showid=1,
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3359 size=20)" />
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3360 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.issue.classhelp('id,title')" />
1674
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3361 <span tal:condition="context/blockers"
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3362 tal:repeat="blk context/blockers">
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diff changeset
3363 <br>View: <a tal:attributes="href string:issue${blk/id}"
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diff changeset
3364 tal:content="blk/id"></a>
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3365 </span>
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3366
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3367 You'll need to fiddle with your item page layout to find an
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3368 appropriate place to put it - I'll leave that fun part up to you.
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3369 Just make sure it appears in the first table, possibly somewhere near
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3370 the "superseders" field.
1559
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3371
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3372 3. Create a new detector module (attached) which enforces the rules:
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3373
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3374 - issues may not be resolved if they have blockers
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3375 - when a blocker is resolved, it's removed from issues it blocks
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parents: 1522
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3376
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3377 The contents of the detector should be something like this::
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3378
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3379 def blockresolution(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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3380 ''' If the issue has blockers, don't allow it to be resolved.
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3381 '''
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parents: 1522
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3382 if nodeid is None:
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parents: 1522
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3383 blockers = []
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3384 else:
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parents: 1522
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3385 blockers = cl.get(nodeid, 'blockers')
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parents: 1522
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3386 blockers = newvalues.get('blockers', blockers)
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parents: 1522
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3387
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3388 # don't do anything if there's no blockers or the status hasn't
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parents: 1671
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3389 # changed
1559
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parents: 1522
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3390 if not blockers or not newvalues.has_key('status'):
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parents: 1522
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3391 return
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parents: 1522
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3392
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parents: 1522
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3393 # get the resolved state ID
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parents: 1522
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3394 resolved_id = db.status.lookup('resolved')
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parents: 1522
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3395
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parents: 1522
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3396 # format the info
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3397 u = db.config.TRACKER_WEB
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3398 s = ', '.join(['<a href="%sissue%s">%s</a>'%(
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3399 u,id,id) for id in blockers])
1559
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3400 if len(blockers) == 1:
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parents: 1522
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3401 s = 'issue %s is'%s
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parents: 1522
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3402 else:
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3403 s = 'issues %s are'%s
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parents: 1522
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3404
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parents: 1522
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3405 # ok, see if we're trying to resolve
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parents: 1522
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3406 if newvalues['status'] == resolved_id:
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parents: 1522
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3407 raise ValueError, "This issue can't be resolved until %s resolved."%s
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parents: 1522
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3408
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3409 def resolveblockers(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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3410 ''' When we resolve an issue that's a blocker, remove it from the
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parents: 1522
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3411 blockers list of the issue(s) it blocks.
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3412 '''
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diff changeset
3413 if not newvalues.has_key('status'):
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parents: 1522
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3414 return
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3415
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3416 # get the resolved state ID
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3417 resolved_id = db.status.lookup('resolved')
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3418
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3419 # interesting?
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parents: 1522
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3420 if newvalues['status'] != resolved_id:
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3421 return
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parents: 1522
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3422
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3423 # yes - find all the blocked issues, if any, and remove me from
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3424 # their blockers list
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3425 issues = cl.find(blockers=nodeid)
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3426 for issueid in issues:
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parents: 1522
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3427 blockers = cl.get(issueid, 'blockers')
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3428 if nodeid in blockers:
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3429 blockers.remove(nodeid)
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3430 cl.set(issueid, blockers=blockers)
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parents: 1522
diff changeset
3431
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diff changeset
3432
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diff changeset
3433 def init(db):
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parents: 1522
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3434 # might, in an obscure situation, happen in a create
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3435 db.issue.audit('create', blockresolution)
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diff changeset
3436 db.issue.audit('set', blockresolution)
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3437
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parents: 1522
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3438 # can only happen on a set
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3439 db.issue.react('set', resolveblockers)
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3440
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3441 Put the above code in a file called "blockers.py" in your tracker's
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3442 "detectors" directory.
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3443
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3444 4. Finally, and this is an optional step, modify the tracker web page
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3445 URLs so they filter out issues with any blockers. You do this by
2407
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3446 adding an additional filter on "blockers" for the value "-1".
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3447
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3448 .. note::
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3449 the following examples are line-wrapped on the trailing & and
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3450 should be unwrapped.
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3451
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3452 For example, the existing "Show All" link in the "page" template (in
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3453 the tracker's "html" directory) looks like this::
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3454
2404
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3455 <a href="issue?:sort=-activity&:group=priority&:filter=status&
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3456 :columns=id,activity,title,creator,assignedto,status&
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3457 status=-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7">Show All</a><br>
1559
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3458
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3459 modify it to add the "blockers" info to the URL (note, both the
6bfb9c9de03c added blockers customisation example to doc
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3460 ":filter" *and* "blockers" values must be specified)::
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3461
2404
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3462 <a href="issue?:sort=-activity&:group=priority&:filter=status,blockers&
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3463 blockers=-1&:columns=id,activity,title,creator,assignedto,status&
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3464 status=-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7">Show All</a><br>
e19284d8d2a4 *** empty log message ***
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3465
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3466 That's it. You should now be able to set blockers on your issues. If you
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3467 want to know whether an issue has any other issues dependent on it
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3468 (i.e. it's in their blockers list) you can look at the journal
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3469 history at the bottom of the issue page - look for a "link" event to
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diff changeset
3470 another issue's "blockers" property.
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3471
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3472 Add users to the nosy list based on the topic
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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3473 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1808
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3474
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3475 We need the ability to automatically add users to the nosy list based
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3476 on the occurence of a topic. Every user should be allowed to edit his
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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3477 own list of topics for which he wants to be added to the nosy list.
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3478
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3479 Below will be showed that such a change can be performed with only
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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3480 minimal understanding of the roundup system, but with clever use
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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3481 of Copy and Paste.
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3482
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diff changeset
3483 This requires three changes to the tracker: a change in the database to
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3484 allow per-user recording of the lists of topics for which he wants to
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3485 be put on the nosy list, a change in the user view allowing to edit
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3486 this list of topics, and addition of an auditor which updates the nosy
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3487 list when a topic is set.
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diff changeset
3488
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3489 Adding the nosy topic list
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
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diff changeset
3490 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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3491
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diff changeset
3492 The change in the database to make is that for any user there should be
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diff changeset
3493 a list of topics for which he wants to be put on the nosy list. Adding
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3494 a ``Multilink`` of ``keyword`` seem to fullfill this (note that within
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3495 the code topics are called ``keywords``.) As such, all what has to be
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3496 done is to add a new field to the definition of ``user`` within the
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3497 file ``dbinit.py``. We will call this new field ``nosy_keywords``, and
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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diff changeset
3498 the updated definition of user will be::
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diff changeset
3499
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diff changeset
3500 user = Class(db, "user",
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diff changeset
3501 username=String(), password=Password(),
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3502 address=String(), realname=String(),
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diff changeset
3503 phone=String(), organisation=String(),
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diff changeset
3504 alternate_addresses=String(),
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diff changeset
3505 queries=Multilink('query'), roles=String(),
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diff changeset
3506 timezone=String(),
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diff changeset
3507 nosy_keywords=Multilink('keyword'))
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3508
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3509 Changing the user view to allow changing the nosy topic list
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3510 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1808
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3511
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3512 We want any user to be able to change the list of topics for which
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3513 he will by default be added to the nosy list. We choose to add this
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3514 to the user view, as is generated by the file ``html/user.item.html``.
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3515 We easily can
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1800
diff changeset
3516 see that the topic field in the issue view has very similar editting
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3517 requirements as our nosy topics, both being a list of topics. As
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3518 such, we search for Topics in ``issue.item.html``, and extract the
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3519 associated parts from there. We add this to ``user.item.html`` at the
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3520 bottom of the list of viewed items (i.e. just below the 'Alternate
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1800
diff changeset
3521 E-mail addresses' in the classic template)::
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3522
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3523 <tr>
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1800
diff changeset
3524 <th>Nosy Topics</th>
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3525 <td>
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diff changeset
3526 <span tal:replace="structure context/nosy_keywords/field" />
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3527 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.keyword.classhelp(property='nosy_keywords')" />
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3528 </td>
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3529 </tr>
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3530
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3531
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3532 Addition of an auditor to update the nosy list
2156
d68eeb9d363f reorg of the (now quite long) examples section and add new example
Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 2154
diff changeset
3533 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
1808
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3534
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3535 The more difficult part is the addition of the logic to actually
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3536 at the users to the nosy list when it is required.
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3537 The choice is made to perform this action when the topics on an
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3538 item are set, including when an item is created.
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3539 Here we choose to start out with a copy of the
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3540 ``detectors/nosyreaction.py`` detector, which we copy to the file
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Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
parents: 1800
diff changeset
3541 ``detectors/nosy_keyword_reaction.py``.
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3542 This looks like a good start as it also adds users
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3543 to the nosy list. A look through the code reveals that the
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3544 ``nosyreaction`` function actually is sending the e-mail, which
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3545 we do not need. As such, we can change the init function to::
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3546
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diff changeset
3547 def init(db):
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diff changeset
3548 db.issue.audit('create', update_kw_nosy)
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3549 db.issue.audit('set', update_kw_nosy)
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3550
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diff changeset
3551 After that we rename the ``updatenosy`` function to ``update_kw_nosy``.
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diff changeset
3552 The first two blocks of code in that function relate to settings
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3553 ``current`` to a combination of the old and new nosy lists. This
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3554 functionality is left in the new auditor. The following block of
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3555 code, which in ``updatenosy`` handled adding the assignedto user(s)
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3556 to the nosy list, should be replaced by a block of code to add the
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3557 interested users to the nosy list. We choose here to loop over all
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3558 new topics, than loop over all users,
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3559 and assign the user to the nosy list when the topic in the user's
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3560 nosy_keywords. The next part in ``updatenosy``, adding the author
3ac35c8e1782 new example and some more installation docs
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3561 and/or recipients of a message to the nosy list, obviously is not
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3562 relevant here and thus is deleted from the new auditor. The last
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3563 part, copying the new nosy list to newvalues, does not have to be changed.
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3564 This brings the following function::
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diff changeset
3565
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diff changeset
3566 def update_kw_nosy(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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diff changeset
3567 '''Update the nosy list for changes to the topics
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diff changeset
3568 '''
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diff changeset
3569 # nodeid will be None if this is a new node
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diff changeset
3570 current = {}
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diff changeset
3571 if nodeid is None:
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diff changeset
3572 ok = ('new', 'yes')
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diff changeset
3573 else:
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diff changeset
3574 ok = ('yes',)
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diff changeset
3575 # old node, get the current values from the node if they haven't
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diff changeset
3576 # changed
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diff changeset
3577 if not newvalues.has_key('nosy'):
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diff changeset
3578 nosy = cl.get(nodeid, 'nosy')
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diff changeset
3579 for value in nosy:
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diff changeset
3580 if not current.has_key(value):
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3581 current[value] = 1
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diff changeset
3582
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diff changeset
3583 # if the nosy list changed in this transaction, init from the new value
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diff changeset
3584 if newvalues.has_key('nosy'):
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parents: 1800
diff changeset
3585 nosy = newvalues.get('nosy', [])
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3586 for value in nosy:
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3587 if not db.hasnode('user', value):
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3588 continue
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3589 if not current.has_key(value):
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3590 current[value] = 1
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3591
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3592 # add users with topic in nosy_keywords to the nosy list
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3593 if newvalues.has_key('topic') and newvalues['topic'] is not None:
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3594 topic_ids = newvalues['topic']
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3595 for topic in topic_ids:
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3596 # loop over all users,
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3597 # and assign user to nosy when topic in nosy_keywords
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3598 for user_id in db.user.list():
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3599 nosy_kw = db.user.get(user_id, "nosy_keywords")
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3600 found = 0
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3601 for kw in nosy_kw:
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3602 if kw == topic:
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3603 found = 1
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3604 if found:
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3605 current[user_id] = 1
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3606
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3607 # that's it, save off the new nosy list
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3608 newvalues['nosy'] = current.keys()
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3609
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3610 and these two function are the only ones needed in the file.
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3611
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3612 TODO: update this example to use the find() Class method.
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3613
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3614 Caveats
2156
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3615 :::::::
1808
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3616
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3617 A few problems with the design here can be noted:
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3618
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3619 Multiple additions
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3620 When a user, after automatic selection, is manually removed
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3621 from the nosy list, he again is added to the nosy list when the
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3622 topic list of the issue is updated. A better design might be
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3623 to only check which topics are new compared to the old list
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3624 of topics, and only add users when they have indicated
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parents: 1800
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3625 interest on a new topic.
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3626
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3627 The code could also be changed to only trigger on the create() event,
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3628 rather than also on the set() event, thus only setting the nosy list
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3629 when the issue is created.
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3630
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3631 Scalability
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3632 In the auditor there is a loop over all users. For a site with
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3633 only few users this will pose no serious problem, however, with
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3634 many users this will be a serious performance bottleneck.
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3635 A way out will be to link from the topics to the users which
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3636 selected these topics a nosy topics. This will eliminate the
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3637 loop over all users.
1559
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3638
2156
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3639 Changes to Security and Permissions
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3640 -----------------------------------
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3641
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3642 Restricting the list of users that are assignable to a task
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3643 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3644
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3645 1. In your tracker's "dbinit.py", create a new Role, say "Developer"::
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3646
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3647 db.security.addRole(name='Developer', description='A developer')
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3648
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3649 2. Just after that, create a new Permission, say "Fixer", specific to
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3650 "issue"::
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3651
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3652 p = db.security.addPermission(name='Fixer', klass='issue',
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3653 description='User is allowed to be assigned to fix issues')
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parents: 2154
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3654
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3655 3. Then assign the new Permission to your "Developer" Role::
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3656
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parents: 2154
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3657 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Developer', p)
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parents: 2154
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3658
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3659 4. In the issue item edit page ("html/issue.item.html" in your tracker
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parents: 2154
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3660 directory), use the new Permission in restricting the "assignedto"
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3661 list::
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parents: 2154
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3662
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3663 <select name="assignedto">
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3664 <option value="-1">- no selection -</option>
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parents: 2154
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3665 <tal:block tal:repeat="user db/user/list">
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parents: 2154
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3666 <option tal:condition="python:user.hasPermission(
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3667 'Fixer', context._classname)"
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3668 tal:attributes="
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3669 value user/id;
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3670 selected python:user.id == context.assignedto"
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3671 tal:content="user/realname"></option>
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3672 </tal:block>
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3673 </select>
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parents: 2154
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3674
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parents: 2154
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3675 For extra security, you may wish to setup an auditor to enforce the
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parents: 2154
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3676 Permission requirement (install this as "assignedtoFixer.py" in your
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3677 tracker "detectors" directory)::
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parents: 2154
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3678
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3679 def assignedtoMustBeFixer(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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diff changeset
3680 ''' Ensure the assignedto value in newvalues is a used with the
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3681 Fixer Permission
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parents: 2154
diff changeset
3682 '''
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parents: 2154
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3683 if not newvalues.has_key('assignedto'):
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parents: 2154
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3684 # don't care
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parents: 2154
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3685 return
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parents: 2154
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3686
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parents: 2154
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3687 # get the userid
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diff changeset
3688 userid = newvalues['assignedto']
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parents: 2154
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3689 if not db.security.hasPermission('Fixer', userid, cl.classname):
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3690 raise ValueError, 'You do not have permission to edit %s'%cl.classname
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parents: 2154
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3691
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parents: 2154
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3692 def init(db):
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3693 db.issue.audit('set', assignedtoMustBeFixer)
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parents: 2154
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3694 db.issue.audit('create', assignedtoMustBeFixer)
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parents: 2154
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3695
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3696 So now, if an edit action attempts to set "assignedto" to a user that
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parents: 2154
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3697 doesn't have the "Fixer" Permission, the error will be raised.
1816
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3698
1954
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3699 Users may only edit their issues
2156
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3700 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1954
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3701
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3702 Users registering themselves are granted Provisional access - meaning they
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3703 have access to edit the issues they submit, but not others. We create a new
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3704 Role called "Provisional User" which is granted to newly-registered users,
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3705 and has limited access. One of the Permissions they have is the new "Edit
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3706 Own" on issues (regular users have "Edit".) We back up the permissions with
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3707 an auditor.
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3708
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3709 First up, we create the new Role and Permission structure in
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3710 ``dbinit.py``::
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3711
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3712 # New users not approved by the admin
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3713 db.security.addRole(name='Provisional User',
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3714 description='New user registered via web or email')
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3715 p = db.security.addPermission(name='Edit Own', klass='issue',
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3716 description='Can only edit own issues')
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3717 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Provisional User', p)
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3718
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3719 # Assign the access and edit Permissions for issue to new users now
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3720 p = db.security.getPermission('View', 'issue')
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3721 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Provisional User', p)
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3722 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', 'issue')
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3723 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Provisional User', p)
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3724
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3725 # and give the new users access to the web and email interface
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3726 p = db.security.getPermission('Web Access')
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3727 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Provisional User', p)
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3728 p = db.security.getPermission('Email Access')
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3729 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Provisional User', p)
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3730
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3731
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diff changeset
3732 Then in the ``config.py`` we change the Role assigned to newly-registered
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3733 users, replacing the existing ``'User'`` values::
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3734
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3735 NEW_WEB_USER_ROLES = 'Provisional User'
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3736 NEW_EMAIL_USER_ROLES = 'Provisional User'
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3737
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diff changeset
3738 Finally we add a new *auditor* to the ``detectors`` directory called
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diff changeset
3739 ``provisional_user_auditor.py``::
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3740
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3741 def audit_provisionaluser(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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3742 ''' New users are only allowed to modify their own issues.
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3743 '''
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3744 if (db.getuid() != cl.get(nodeid, 'creator')
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3745 and db.security.hasPermission('Edit Own', db.getuid(), cl.classname)):
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diff changeset
3746 raise ValueError, ('You are only allowed to edit your own %s'
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diff changeset
3747 % cl.classname)
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3748
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3749 def init(db):
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diff changeset
3750 # fire before changes are made
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diff changeset
3751 db.issue.audit('set', audit_provisionaluser)
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diff changeset
3752 db.issue.audit('retire', audit_provisionaluser)
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diff changeset
3753 db.issue.audit('restore', audit_provisionaluser)
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3754
2407
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diff changeset
3755 Some older trackers might also want to change the ``page.html``
1954
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3756 template as follows::
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3757
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3758 <p class="classblock"
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diff changeset
3759 - tal:condition="python:request.user.username != 'anonymous'">
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diff changeset
3760 + tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'user')">
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diff changeset
3761 <b>Administration</b><br>
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diff changeset
3762 <tal:block tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit', None)">
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diff changeset
3763 <a href="home?:template=classlist">Class List</a><br>
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diff changeset
3764
2407
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diff changeset
3765 (the "-" indicates a removed line, and the "+" indicates an added line).
1954
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3766
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3767
2156
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diff changeset
3768 Changes to the Web User Interface
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diff changeset
3769 ---------------------------------
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3770
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diff changeset
3771 Adding action links to the index page
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diff changeset
3772 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3773
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diff changeset
3774 Add a column to the item.index.html template.
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3775
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diff changeset
3776 Resolving the issue::
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diff changeset
3777
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diff changeset
3778 <a tal:attributes="href
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diff changeset
3779 string:issue${i/id}?:status=resolved&:action=edit">resolve</a>
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diff changeset
3780
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diff changeset
3781 "Take" the issue::
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3782
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diff changeset
3783 <a tal:attributes="href
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diff changeset
3784 string:issue${i/id}?:assignedto=${request/user/id}&:action=edit">take</a>
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diff changeset
3785
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diff changeset
3786 ... and so on
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diff changeset
3787
1966
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diff changeset
3788 Colouring the rows in the issue index according to priority
2156
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diff changeset
3789 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1966
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diff changeset
3790
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diff changeset
3791 A simple ``tal:attributes`` statement will do the bulk of the work here. In
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3792 the ``issue.index.html`` template, add to the ``<tr>`` that displays the
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diff changeset
3793 actual rows of data::
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diff changeset
3794
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diff changeset
3795 <tr tal:attributes="class string:priority-${i/priority/plain}">
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diff changeset
3796
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diff changeset
3797 and then in your stylesheet (``style.css``) specify the colouring for the
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diff changeset
3798 different priorities, like::
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diff changeset
3799
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diff changeset
3800 tr.priority-critical td {
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3801 background-color: red;
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3802 }
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3803
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3804 tr.priority-urgent td {
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3805 background-color: orange;
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diff changeset
3806 }
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3807
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diff changeset
3808 and so on, with far less offensive colours :)
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diff changeset
3809
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diff changeset
3810 Editing multiple items in an index view
2156
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3811 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3812
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diff changeset
3813 To edit the status of all items in the item index view, edit the
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diff changeset
3814 ``issue.item.html``:
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diff changeset
3815
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3816 1. add a form around the listing table, so at the top it reads::
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diff changeset
3817
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diff changeset
3818 <form method="POST" tal:attributes="action request/classname">
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diff changeset
3819 <table class="list">
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diff changeset
3820
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diff changeset
3821 and at the bottom of that table::
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diff changeset
3822
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3823 </table>
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diff changeset
3824 </form
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diff changeset
3825
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3826 making sure you match the ``</table>`` from the list table, not the
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3827 navigation table or the subsequent form table.
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diff changeset
3828
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3829 2. in the display for the issue property, change::
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3830
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diff changeset
3831 <td tal:condition="request/show/status"
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3832 tal:content="python:i.status.plain() or default">&nbsp;</td>
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diff changeset
3833
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diff changeset
3834 to::
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diff changeset
3835
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diff changeset
3836 <td tal:condition="request/show/status"
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3837 tal:content="structure i/status/field">&nbsp;</td>
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diff changeset
3838
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diff changeset
3839 this will result in an edit field for the status property.
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3840
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diff changeset
3841 3. after the ``tal:block`` which lists the actual index items (marked by
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3842 ``tal:repeat="i batch"``) add a new table row::
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diff changeset
3843
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3844 <tr>
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diff changeset
3845 <td tal:attributes="colspan python:len(request.columns)">
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diff changeset
3846 <input type="submit" value=" Save Changes ">
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3847 <input type="hidden" name="@action" value="edit">
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diff changeset
3848 <tal:block replace="structure request/indexargs_form" />
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diff changeset
3849 </td>
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3850 </tr>
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parents: 2007
diff changeset
3851
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diff changeset
3852 which gives us a submit button, indicates that we are performing an edit
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3853 on any changed statuses and the final block will make sure that the
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3854 current index view parameters (filtering, columns, etc) will be used in
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3855 rendering the next page (the results of the editing).
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3856
2156
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3857
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3858 Displaying only message summaries in the issue display
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3859 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3860
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3861 Alter the issue.item template section for messages to::
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3862
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3863 <table class="messages" tal:condition="context/messages">
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3864 <tr><th colspan="5" class="header">Messages</th></tr>
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diff changeset
3865 <tr tal:repeat="msg context/messages">
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3866 <td><a tal:attributes="href string:msg${msg/id}"
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diff changeset
3867 tal:content="string:msg${msg/id}"></a></td>
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3868 <td tal:content="msg/author">author</td>
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3869 <td class="date" tal:content="msg/date/pretty">date</td>
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3870 <td tal:content="msg/summary">summary</td>
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3871 <td>
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3872 <a tal:attributes="href string:?@remove@messages=${msg/id}&@action=edit">
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3873 remove</a>
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3874 </td>
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3875 </tr>
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3876 </table>
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3877
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3878
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3879 Enabling display of either message summaries or the entire messages
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3880 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3881
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3882 This is pretty simple - all we need to do is copy the code from the
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3883 example `displaying only message summaries in the issue display`_ into
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3884 our template alongside the summary display, and then introduce a switch
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3885 that shows either one or the other. We'll use a new form variable,
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3886 ``@whole_messages`` to achieve this::
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3887
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3888 <table class="messages" tal:condition="context/messages">
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3889 <tal:block tal:condition="not:request/form/@whole_messages/value | python:0">
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3890 <tr><th colspan="3" class="header">Messages</th>
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3891 <th colspan="2" class="header">
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3892 <a href="?@whole_messages=yes">show entire messages</a>
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3893 </th>
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3894 </tr>
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3895 <tr tal:repeat="msg context/messages">
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3896 <td><a tal:attributes="href string:msg${msg/id}"
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3897 tal:content="string:msg${msg/id}"></a></td>
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3898 <td tal:content="msg/author">author</td>
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3899 <td class="date" tal:content="msg/date/pretty">date</td>
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3900 <td tal:content="msg/summary">summary</td>
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3901 <td>
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3902 <a tal:attributes="href string:?@remove@messages=${msg/id}&@action=edit">remove</a>
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3903 </td>
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3904 </tr>
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3905 </tal:block>
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3906
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3907 <tal:block tal:condition="request/form/@whole_messages/value | python:0">
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3908 <tr><th colspan="2" class="header">Messages</th>
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3909 <th class="header">
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3910 <a href="?@whole_messages=">show only summaries</a>
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3911 </th>
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3912 </tr>
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3913 <tal:block tal:repeat="msg context/messages">
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3914 <tr>
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3915 <th tal:content="msg/author">author</th>
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3916 <th class="date" tal:content="msg/date/pretty">date</th>
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3917 <th style="text-align: right">
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3918 (<a tal:attributes="href string:?@remove@messages=${msg/id}&@action=edit">remove</a>)
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3919 </th>
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3920 </tr>
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3921 <tr><td colspan="3" tal:content="msg/content"></td></tr>
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3922 </tal:block>
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3923 </tal:block>
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3924 </table>
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3925
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3926 Setting up a "wizard" (or "druid") for controlled adding of issues
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3927 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3928
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3929 1. Set up the page templates you wish to use for data input. My wizard
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3930 is going to be a two-step process: first figuring out what category
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3931 of issue the user is submitting, and then getting details specific to
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3932 that category. The first page includes a table of help, explaining
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3933 what the category names mean, and then the core of the form::
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3934
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3935 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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3936 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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3937 <input type="hidden" name="@template" value="add_page1">
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3938 <input type="hidden" name="@action" value="page1_submit">
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3939
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3940 <strong>Category:</strong>
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3941 <tal:block tal:replace="structure context/category/menu" />
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3942 <input type="submit" value="Continue">
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3943 </form>
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3944
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3945 The next page has the usual issue entry information, with the
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3946 addition of the following form fragments::
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3947
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3948 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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3949 enctype="multipart/form-data"
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3950 tal:condition="context/is_edit_ok"
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3951 tal:define="cat request/form/category/value">
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3952
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3953 <input type="hidden" name="@template" value="add_page2">
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3954 <input type="hidden" name="@required" value="title">
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3955 <input type="hidden" name="category" tal:attributes="value cat">
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3956 .
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3957 .
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3958 .
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3959 </form>
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3960
2407
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3961 Later in the form, I test the value of "cat" include form
2156
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3962 elements that are appropriate. For example::
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3963
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3964 <tal:block tal:condition="python:cat in '6 10 13 14 15 16 17'.split()">
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3965 <tr>
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3966 <th>Operating System</th>
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3967 <td tal:content="structure context/os/field"></td>
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3968 </tr>
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3969 <tr>
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3970 <th>Web Browser</th>
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3971 <td tal:content="structure context/browser/field"></td>
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3972 </tr>
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3973 </tal:block>
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3974
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3975 ... the above section will only be displayed if the category is one
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3976 of 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17.
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3977
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3978 3. Determine what actions need to be taken between the pages - these are
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3979 usually to validate user choices and determine what page is next. Now encode
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3980 those actions in a new ``Action`` class and insert hooks to those actions in
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3981 the "actions" attribute on on the ``interfaces.Client`` class, like so (see
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3982 `defining new web actions`_)::
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3983
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3984 class Page1SubmitAction(Action):
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3985 def handle(self):
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3986 ''' Verify that the user has selected a category, and then move
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3987 on to page 2.
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3988 '''
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3989 category = self.form['category'].value
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3990 if category == '-1':
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3991 self.error_message.append('You must select a category of report')
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3992 return
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3993 # everything's ok, move on to the next page
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3994 self.template = 'add_page2'
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3996 actions = client.Client.actions + (
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3997 ('page1_submit', Page1SubmitAction),
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3998 )
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3999
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4000 4. Use the usual "new" action as the ``@action`` on the final page, and
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4001 you're done (the standard context/submit method can do this for you).
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4007 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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4009 .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html
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4010 .. _`design documentation`: design.html
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