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Bug fixes. - fixed bug in login if the username wasn't known - handle close/rollback of already-closed sqlite database - added example for external passwd-style user password verification
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1 ===================
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2 Customising Roundup
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3 ===================
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5 :Version: $Revision: 1.50 $
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7 .. This document borrows from the ZopeBook section on ZPT. The original is at:
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8 http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/ZPT.stx
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10 .. contents::
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11 :depth: 1
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13 What You Can Do
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14 ===============
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16 Customisation of Roundup can take one of five forms:
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18 1. `tracker configuration`_ file changes
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19 2. database, or `tracker schema`_ changes
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20 3. "definition" class `database content`_ changes
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21 4. behavioural changes, through detectors_
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22 5. `access controls`_
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24 The third case is special because it takes two distinctly different forms
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25 depending upon whether the tracker has been initialised or not. The other two
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26 may be done at any time, before or after tracker initialisation. Yes, this
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27 includes adding or removing properties from classes.
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30 Trackers in a Nutshell
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31 ======================
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33 Trackers have the following structure:
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35 =================== ========================================================
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36 Tracker File Description
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38 config.py Holds the basic `tracker configuration`_
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39 dbinit.py Holds the `tracker schema`_
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40 interfaces.py Defines the Web and E-Mail interfaces for the tracker
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41 select_db.py Selects the database back-end for the tracker
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42 db/ Holds the tracker's database
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43 db/files/ Holds the tracker's upload files and messages
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44 detectors/ Auditors and reactors for this tracker
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45 html/ Web interface templates, images and style sheets
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46 =================== ========================================================
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48 Tracker Configuration
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49 =====================
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51 The config.py located in your tracker home contains the basic
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52 configuration for the web and e-mail components of roundup's interfaces. This
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53 file is a Python module. The configuration variables available are:
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55 **TRACKER_HOME** - ``os.path.split(__file__)[0]``
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56 The tracker home directory. The above default code will automatically
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57 determine the tracker home for you.
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59 **MAILHOST** - ``'localhost'``
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60 The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send e-mail.
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62 **MAIL_DOMAIN** - ``'your.tracker.email.domain.example'``
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63 The domain name used for email addresses.
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65 **DATABASE** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')``
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66 This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in. By default
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67 it is in the tracker home.
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69 **TEMPLATES** - ``os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')``
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70 This is the directory that the HTML templates reside in. By default they are
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71 in the tracker home.
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73 **TRACKER_NAME** - ``'Roundup issue tracker'``
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74 A descriptive name for your roundup tracker. This is sent out in e-mails and
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75 appears in the heading of CGI pages.
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77 **TRACKER_EMAIL** - ``'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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78 The email address that e-mail sent to roundup should go to. Think of it as the
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79 tracker's personal e-mail address.
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81 **TRACKER_WEB** - ``'http://your.tracker.url.example/'``
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82 The web address that the tracker is viewable at. This will be included in
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83 information sent to users of the tracker.
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85 **ADMIN_EMAIL** - ``'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN``
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86 The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into trouble.
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88 **MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR** - ``'yes'`` or``'no'``
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89 Send nosy messages to the author of the message.
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91 **ADD_AUTHOR_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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92 Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list automatically?
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93 If ``'new'`` is used, then the author will only be added when a message
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94 creates a new issue. If ``'yes'``, then the author will be added on followups
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97 **ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY** - ``'new'``, ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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98 Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy list?
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99 If ``'new'`` is used, then the recipients will only be added when a message
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103 **EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION** - ``'top'``, ``'bottom'`` or ``'none'``
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104 Where to place the email signature in messages that Roundup generates.
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106 **EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT** - ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``
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107 Keep email citations. Citations are the part of e-mail which the sender has
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108 quoted in their reply to previous e-mail.
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110 **EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED** - ``'no'``
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111 Preserve the email body as is. Enabiling this will cause the entire message
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112 body to be stored, including all citations and signatures. It should be
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113 either ``'yes'`` or ``'no'``.
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115 **MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS** - ``'issue'`` or ``''``
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116 Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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117 subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it blank.
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119 The default config.py is given below - as you
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120 can see, the MAIL_DOMAIN must be edited before any interaction with the
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121 tracker is attempted.::
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123 # roundup home is this package's directory
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124 TRACKER_HOME=os.path.split(__file__)[0]
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126 # The SMTP mail host that roundup will use to send mail
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127 MAILHOST = 'localhost'
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129 # The domain name used for email addresses.
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130 MAIL_DOMAIN = 'your.tracker.email.domain.example'
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132 # This is the directory that the database is going to be stored in
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133 DATABASE = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'db')
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136 TEMPLATES = os.path.join(TRACKER_HOME, 'html')
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138 # A descriptive name for your roundup tracker
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139 TRACKER_NAME = 'Roundup issue tracker'
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141 # The email address that mail to roundup should go to
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142 TRACKER_EMAIL = 'issue_tracker@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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145 TRACKER_WEB = 'http://your.tracker.url.example/'
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147 # The email address that roundup will complain to if it runs into trouble
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148 ADMIN_EMAIL = 'roundup-admin@%s'%MAIL_DOMAIN
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149
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150 # Send nosy messages to the author of the message
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151 MESSAGES_TO_AUTHOR = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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153 # Does the author of a message get placed on the nosy list automatically?
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154 # If 'new' is used, then the author will only be added when a message
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155 # creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the author will be added on followups
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156 # too. If 'no', they're never added to the nosy.
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157 ADD_AUTHOR_TO_NOSY = 'new' # one of 'yes', 'no', 'new'
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159 # Do the recipients (To:, Cc:) of a message get placed on the nosy list?
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160 # If 'new' is used, then the recipients will only be added when a message
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161 # creates a new issue. If 'yes', then the recipients will be added on followups
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162 # too. If 'no', they're never added to the nosy.
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163 ADD_RECIPIENTS_TO_NOSY = 'new' # either 'yes', 'no', 'new'
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165 # Where to place the email signature
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166 EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION = 'bottom' # one of 'top', 'bottom', 'none'
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168 # Keep email citations
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169 EMAIL_KEEP_QUOTED_TEXT = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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171 # Preserve the email body as is
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172 EMAIL_LEAVE_BODY_UNCHANGED = 'no' # either 'yes' or 'no'
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174 # Default class to use in the mailgw if one isn't supplied in email
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175 # subjects. To disable, comment out the variable below or leave it blank.
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176 # Examples:
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177 MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = 'issue' # use "issue" class by default
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178 #MAIL_DEFAULT_CLASS = '' # disable (or just comment the var out)
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180 Tracker Schema
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181 ==============
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183 Note: if you modify the schema, you'll most likely need to edit the
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184 `web interface`_ HTML template files and `detectors`_ to reflect
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185 your changes.
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187 A tracker schema defines what data is stored in the tracker's database.
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188 Schemas are defined using Python code in the ``dbinit.py`` module of your
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189 tracker. The "classic" schema looks like this::
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191 pri = Class(db, "priority", name=String(), order=String())
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192 pri.setkey("name")
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193 pri.create(name="critical", order="1")
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194 pri.create(name="urgent", order="2")
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195 pri.create(name="bug", order="3")
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196 pri.create(name="feature", order="4")
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197 pri.create(name="wish", order="5")
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199 stat = Class(db, "status", name=String(), order=String())
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200 stat.setkey("name")
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201 stat.create(name="unread", order="1")
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202 stat.create(name="deferred", order="2")
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203 stat.create(name="chatting", order="3")
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204 stat.create(name="need-eg", order="4")
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205 stat.create(name="in-progress", order="5")
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206 stat.create(name="testing", order="6")
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207 stat.create(name="done-cbb", order="7")
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208 stat.create(name="resolved", order="8")
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210 keyword = Class(db, "keyword", name=String())
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211 keyword.setkey("name")
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213 user = Class(db, "user", username=String(), password=String(),
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214 address=String(), realname=String(), phone=String(),
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215 organisation=String())
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216 user.setkey("username")
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217 user.create(username="admin", password=adminpw,
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218 address=config.ADMIN_EMAIL)
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220 msg = FileClass(db, "msg", author=Link("user"), recipients=Multilink
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221 ("user"), date=Date(), summary=String(), files=Multilink("file"))
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223 file = FileClass(db, "file", name=String(), type=String())
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225 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", assignedto=Link("user"),
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226 topic=Multilink("keyword"), priority=Link("priority"), status=Link
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227 ("status"))
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228 issue.setkey('title')
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230 XXX security definitions
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231
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232 Classes and Properties - creating a new information store
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233 ---------------------------------------------------------
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235 In the tracker above, we've defined 7 classes of information:
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237 priority
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238 Defines the possible levels of urgency for issues.
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240 status
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241 Defines the possible states of processing the issue may be in.
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243 keyword
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244 Initially empty, will hold keywords useful for searching issues.
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246 user
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247 Initially holding the "admin" user, will eventually have an entry for all
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248 users using roundup.
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250 msg
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251 Initially empty, will all e-mail messages sent to or generated by
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252 roundup.
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254 file
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255 Initially empty, will all files attached to issues.
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257 issue
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258 Initially empty, this is where the issue information is stored.
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260 We define the "priority" and "status" classes to allow two things: reduction in
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261 the amount of information stored on the issue and more powerful, accurate
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262 searching of issues by priority and status. By only requiring a link on the
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263 issue (which is stored as a single number) we reduce the chance that someone
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264 mis-types a priority or status - or simply makes a new one up.
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266 Class and Items
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267 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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269 A Class defines a particular class (or type) of data that will be stored in the
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270 database. A class comprises one or more properties, which given the information
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271 about the class items.
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272 The actual data entered into the database, using class.create() are called
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273 items. They have a special immutable property called id. We sometimes refer to
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274 this as the itemid.
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276 Properties
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277 ~~~~~~~~~~
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279 A Class is comprised of one or more properties of the following types:
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281 * String properties are for storing arbitrary-length strings.
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282 * Password properties are for storing encoded arbitrary-length strings. The
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283 default encoding is defined on the roundup.password.Password class.
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284 * Date properties store date-and-time stamps. Their values are Timestamp
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285 objects.
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286 * Number properties store numeric values.
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287 * Boolean properties store on/off, yes/no, true/false values.
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288 * A Link property refers to a single other item selected from a specified
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289 class. The class is part of the property; the value is an integer, the id
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290 of the chosen item.
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291 * A Multilink property refers to possibly many items in a specified class.
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292 The value is a list of integers.
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294 FileClass
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295 ~~~~~~~~~
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297 FileClasses save their "content" attribute off in a separate file from the rest
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298 of the database. This reduces the number of large entries in the database,
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299 which generally makes databases more efficient, and also allows us to use
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325 Select a String property of the class to be the key property. The key property
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340 create(information)
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350 TODO
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353 Detectors - adding behaviour to your tracker
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358 free to add and remove them any time, even after the database is initliased
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361 The detectors in your tracker fire before (*auditors*) and after (*reactors*)
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362 changes to the contents of your database. They are Python modules that sit in
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363 your tracker's ``detectors`` directory. You will have some installed by
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364 default - have a look. You can write new detectors or modify the existing
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365 ones. The existing detectors installed for you are:
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367 **nosyreaction.py**
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368 This provides the automatic nosy list maintenance and email sending. The nosy
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369 reactor (``nosyreaction``) fires when new messages are added to issues.
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370 The nosy auditor (``updatenosy``) fires when issues are changed and figures
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371 what changes need to be made to the nosy list (like adding new authors etc)
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372 **statusauditor.py**
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373 This provides the ``chatty`` auditor which changes the issue status from
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374 ``unread`` or ``closed`` to ``chatting`` if new messages appear. It also
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375 provides the ``presetunread`` auditor which pre-sets the status to
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376 ``unread`` on new items if the status isn't explicitly defined.
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378 See the detectors section in the `design document`__ for details of the
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379 interface for detectors.
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381 __ design.html
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383 Sample additional detectors that have been found useful will appear in the
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384 ``detectors`` directory of the Roundup distribution:
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386 **newissuecopy.py**
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387 This detector sends an email to a team address whenever a new issue is
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388 created. The address is hard-coded into the detector, so edit it before you
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389 use it (look for the text 'team@team.host') or you'll get email errors!
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391 The detector code::
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393 from roundup import roundupdb
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395 def newissuecopy(db, cl, nodeid, oldvalues):
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396 ''' Copy a message about new issues to a team address.
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397 '''
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398 # so use all the messages in the create
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399 change_note = cl.generateCreateNote(nodeid)
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401 # send a copy to the nosy list
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402 for msgid in cl.get(nodeid, 'messages'):
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404 # note: last arg must be a list
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405 cl.send_message(nodeid, msgid, change_note, ['team@team.host'])
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407 raise roundupdb.DetectorError, message
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409 def init(db):
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410 db.issue.react('create', newissuecopy)
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416 Note: if you modify the content of definitional classes, you'll most likely
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419 Customisation of the special "definitional" classes (eg. status, priority,
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420 resolution, ...) may be done either before or after the tracker is
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424 **Changing content before tracker initialisation**
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425 Edit the dbinit module in your tracker to alter the items created in using
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426 the create() methods.
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433 See "`adding a new field to the classic schema`_" for an example that requires
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445 roundup.cgi, roundup-server and ZRoundup.
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446 In all cases, we determine which tracker is being accessed
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451 anything you want as a web interface to your tracker.
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453 Repurcussions of changing the tracker schema
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456 If you choose to change the `tracker schema`_ you will need to ensure the web
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457 interface knows about it:
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459 1. Index, item and search pages for the relevant classes may need to have
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460 properties added or removed,
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461 2. The "page" template may require links to be changed, as might the "home"
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462 page's content arguments.
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463
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464 How requests are processed
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465 --------------------------
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466
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467 The basic processing of a web request proceeds as follows:
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468
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469 1. figure out who we are, defaulting to the "anonymous" user
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470 2. figure out what the request is for - we call this the "context"
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471 3. handle any requested action (item edit, search, ...)
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472 4. render the template requested by the context, resulting in HTML output
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473
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474 In some situations, exceptions occur:
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475
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476 - HTTP Redirect (generally raised by an action)
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477 - SendFile (generally raised by determine_context)
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478 here we serve up a FileClass "content" property
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479 - SendStaticFile (generally raised by determine_context)
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480 here we serve up a file from the tracker "html" directory
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481 - Unauthorised (generally raised by an action)
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482 here the action is cancelled, the request is rendered and an error
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483 message is displayed indicating that permission was not
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484 granted for the action to take place
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485 - NotFound (raised wherever it needs to be)
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486 this exception percolates up to the CGI interface that called the client
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487
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488 Determining web context
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489 -----------------------
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490
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491 To determine the "context" of a request, we look at the URL and the special
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492 request variable ``:template``. The URL path after the tracker identifier
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493 is examined. Typical URL paths look like:
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494
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495 1. ``/tracker/issue``
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496 2. ``/tracker/issue1``
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497 3. ``/tracker/_file/style.css``
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498 4. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1``
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499 5. ``/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi/tracker/file1/kitten.png``
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500
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501 where the "tracker identifier" is "tracker" in the above cases. That means
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502 we're looking at "issue", "issue1", "_file/style.css", "file1" and
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503 "file1/kitten.png" in the cases above. The path is generally only one
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504 entry long - longer paths are handled differently.
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505
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506 a. if there is no path, then we are in the "home" context.
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507 b. if the path starts with "_file" (as in example 3,
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508 "/tracker/_file/style.css"), then the additional path entry,
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509 "style.css" specifies the filename of a static file we're to serve up
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510 from the tracker "html" directory. Raises a SendStaticFile
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511 exception.
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512 c. if there is something in the path (as in example 1, "issue"), it identifies
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513 the tracker class we're to display.
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514 d. if the path is an item designator (as in examples 2 and 4, "issue1" and
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515 "file1"), then we're to display a specific item.
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516 e. if the path starts with an item designator and is longer than
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517 one entry (as in example 5, "file1/kitten.png"), then we're assumed
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518 to be handling an item of a
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519 FileClass, and the extra path information gives the filename
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520 that the client is going to label the download with (ie
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521 "file1/kitten.png" is nicer to download than "file1"). This
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522 raises a SendFile exception.
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523
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524 Both b. and e. stop before we bother to
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525 determine the template we're going to use. That's because they
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526 don't actually use templates.
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527
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528 The template used is specified by the ``:template`` CGI variable,
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529 which defaults to:
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530
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531 - only classname suplied: "index"
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532 - full item designator supplied: "item"
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533
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534
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535 Performing actions in web requests
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536 ----------------------------------
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537
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538 When a user requests a web page, they may optionally also request for an
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539 action to take place. As described in `how requests are processed`_, the
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540 action is performed before the requested page is generated. Actions are
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541 triggered by using a ``:action`` CGI variable, where the value is one of:
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542
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543 **login**
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544 Attempt to log a user in.
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545 **logout**
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546 Log the user out - make them "anonymous".
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547 **register**
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548 Attempt to create a new user based on the contents of the form and then log
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549 them in.
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550 **edit**
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551 Perform an edit of an item in the database. There are some special form
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552 elements you may use:
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553
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554 :link=designator:property and :multilink=designator:property
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555 The value specifies an item designator and the property on that
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556 item to add _this_ item to as a link or multilink.
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557 :note
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558 Create a message and attach it to the current item's
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559 "messages" property.
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560 :file
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561 Create a file and attach it to the current item's
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562 "files" property. Attach the file to the message created from
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563 the :note if it's supplied.
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564 :required=property,property,...
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565 The named properties are required to be filled in the form.
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567 **new**
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568 Add a new item to the database. You may use the same special form elements
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569 as in the "edit" action.
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571 **editCSV**
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572 Performs an edit of all of a class' items in one go. See also the
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573 *class*.csv templating method which generates the CSV data to be edited, and
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574 the "_generic.index" template which uses both of these features.
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576 **search**
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577 Mangle some of the form variables.
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578
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579 Set the form ":filter" variable based on the values of the
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580 filter variables - if they're set to anything other than
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581 "dontcare" then add them to :filter.
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582
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583 Also handle the ":queryname" variable and save off the query to
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584 the user's query list.
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585
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586 Each of the actions is implemented by a corresponding *actionAction* (where
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587 "action" is the name of the action) method on
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588 the roundup.cgi.Client class, which also happens to be in your tracker as
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589 interfaces.Client. So if you need to define new actions, you may add them
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590 there (see `defining new web actions`_).
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591
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592 Each action also has a corresponding *actionPermission* (where
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593 "action" is the name of the action) method which determines
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594 whether the action is permissible given the current user. The base permission
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595 checks are:
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596
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597 **login**
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598 Determine whether the user has permission to log in.
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599 Base behaviour is to check the user has "Web Access".
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600 **logout**
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601 No permission checks are made.
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602 **register**
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603 Determine whether the user has permission to register
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604 Base behaviour is to check the user has "Web Registration".
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605 **edit**
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606 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this item.
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607 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class. If we're
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608 editing the "user" class, users are allowed to edit their own
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610 special Permission "Web Roles".
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611 **new**
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612 Determine whether the user has permission to create (edit) this item.
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613 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class. No
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614 additional property checks are made. Additionally, new user items
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615 may be created if the user has the "Web Registration" Permission.
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616 **editCSV**
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617 Determine whether the user has permission to edit this class.
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618 Base behaviour is to check the user can edit this class.
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619 **search**
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620 Determine whether the user has permission to search this class.
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621 Base behaviour is to check the user can view this class.
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624 Default templates
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625 -----------------
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626
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627 Most customisation of the web view can be done by modifying the templates in
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628 the tracker **html** directory. There are several types of files in there:
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630 **page**
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631 This template usually defines the overall look of your tracker. When you
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632 view an issue, it appears inside this template. When you view an index, it
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633 also appears inside this template. This template defines a macro called
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634 "icing" which is used by almost all other templates as a coating for their
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635 content, using its "content" slot. It will also define the "head_title"
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636 and "body_title" slots to allow setting of the page title.
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637 **home**
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638 the default page displayed when no other page is indicated by the user
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639 **home.classlist**
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640 a special version of the default page that lists the classes in the tracker
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641 **classname.item**
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642 displays an item of the *classname* class
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643 **classname.index**
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644 displays a list of *classname* items
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645 **classname.search**
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646 displays a search page for *classname* items
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647 **_generic.index**
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648 used to display a list of items where there is no *classname*.index available
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649 **_generic.help**
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650 used to display a "class help" page where there is no *classname*.help
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651 **user.register**
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652 a special page just for the user class that renders the registration page
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653 **style.css**
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654 a static file that is served up as-is
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655
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656 Note: Remember that you can create any template extension you want to, so
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657 if you just want to play around with the templating for new issues, you can
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658 copy the current "issue.item" template to "issue.test", and then access the
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659 test template using the ":template" URL argument::
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660
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661 http://your.tracker.example/tracker/issue?:template=test
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662
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663 and it won't affect your users using the "issue.item" template.
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664
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665
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666 How the templates work
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667 ----------------------
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668
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669 Basic Templating Actions
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670 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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671
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672 Roundup's templates consist of special attributes on your template tags.
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673 These attributes form the Template Attribute Language, or TAL. The basic tag
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674 commands are:
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675
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676 **tal:define="variable expression; variable expression; ..."**
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677 Define a new variable that is local to this tag and its contents. For
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678 example::
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679
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680 <html tal:define="title request/description">
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681 <head><title tal:content="title"></title></head>
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682 </html>
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683
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684 In the example, the variable "title" is defined as being the result of the
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685 expression "request/description". The tal:content command inside the <html>
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686 tag may then use the "title" variable.
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687
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688 **tal:condition="expression"**
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689 Only keep this tag and its contents if the expression is true. For example::
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690
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691 <p tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'issue')">
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692 Display some issue information.
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693 </p>
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694
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695 In the example, the <p> tag and its contents are only displayed if the
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696 user has the View permission for issues. We consider the number zero, a
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697 blank string, an empty list, and the built-in variable nothing to be false
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698 values. Nearly every other value is true, including non-zero numbers, and
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699 strings with anything in them (even spaces!).
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700
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701 **tal:repeat="variable expression"**
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702 Repeat this tag and its contents for each element of the sequence that the
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703 expression returns, defining a new local variable and a special "repeat"
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704 variable for each element. For example::
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705
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706 <tr tal:repeat="u user/list">
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707 <td tal:content="u/id"></td>
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708 <td tal:content="u/username"></td>
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709 <td tal:content="u/realname"></td>
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710 </tr>
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711
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712 The example would iterate over the sequence of users returned by
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713 "user/list" and define the local variable "u" for each entry.
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715 **tal:replace="expression"**
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716 Replace this tag with the result of the expression. For example::
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717
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718 <span tal:replace="request/user/realname"></span>
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719
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720 The example would replace the <span> tag and its contents with the user's
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721 realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce" then the resultant output
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722 would be "Bruce".
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724 **tal:content="expression"**
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725 Replace the contents of this tag with the result of the expression. For
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726 example::
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727
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728 <span tal:content="request/user/realname">user's name appears here</span>
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729
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730 The example would replace the contents of the <span> tag with the user's
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731 realname. If the user's realname was "Bruce" then the resultant output
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732 would be "<span>Bruce</span>".
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734 **tal:attributes="attribute expression; attribute expression; ..."**
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735 Set attributes on this tag to the results of expressions. For example::
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736
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737 <a tal:attributes="href string:user${request/user/id}">My Details</a>
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738
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739 In the example, the "href" attribute of the <a> tag is set to the value of
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740 the "string:user${request/user/id}" expression, which will be something
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741 like "user123".
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742
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743 **tal:omit-tag="expression"**
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744 Remove this tag (but not its contents) if the expression is true. For
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745 example::
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746
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747 <span tal:omit-tag="python:1">Hello, world!</span>
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748
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749 would result in output of::
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750
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751 Hello, world!
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752
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753 Note that the commands on a given tag are evaulated in the order above, so
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754 *define* comes before *condition*, and so on.
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755
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756 Additionally, a tag is defined, tal:block, which is removed from output. Its
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757 content is not, but the tag itself is (so don't go using any tal:attributes
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758 commands on it). This is useful for making arbitrary blocks of HTML
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759 conditional or repeatable (very handy for repeating multiple table rows,
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760 which would othewise require an illegal tag placement to effect the repeat).
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761
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763 Templating Expressions
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764 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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766 The expressions you may use in the attibute values may be one of the following
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767 forms:
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769 **Path Expressions** - eg. ``item/status/checklist``
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770 These are object attribute / item accesses. Roughly speaking, the path
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771 ``item/status/checklist`` is broken into parts ``item``, ``status``
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772 and ``checklist``. The ``item`` part is the root of the expression.
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773 We then look for a ``status`` attribute on ``item``, or failing that, a
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774 ``status`` item (as in ``item['status']``). If that
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776 left with is evaluated to get a string - methods are called, objects are
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777 stringified. Path expressions may have an optional ``path:`` prefix, though
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778 they are the default expression type, so it's not necessary.
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779
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780 XXX | components of expressions
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781
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782 XXX "nothing" and "default"
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784 **String Expressions** - eg. ``string:hello ${user/name}``
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785 These expressions are simple string interpolations (though they can be just
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786 plain strings with no interpolation if you want. The expression in the
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787 ``${ ... }`` is just a path expression as above.
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788
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789 **Python Expressions** - eg. ``python: 1+1``
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790 These expressions give the full power of Python. All the "root level"
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791 variables are available, so ``python:item.status.checklist()`` would be
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792 equivalent to ``item/status/checklist``, assuming that ``checklist`` is
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793 a method.
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794
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795 Template Macros
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796 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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798 Macros are used in Roundup to save us from repeating the same common page
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799 stuctures over and over. The most common (and probably only) macro you'll use
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800 is the "icing" macro defined in the "page" template.
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801
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802 Macros are generated and used inside your templates using special attributes
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803 similar to the `basic templating actions`_. In this case though, the
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804 attributes belong to the Macro Expansion Template Attribute Language, or
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805 METAL. The macro commands are:
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806
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807 **metal:define-macro="macro name"**
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808 Define that the tag and its contents are now a macro that may be inserted
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809 into other templates using the *use-macro* command. For example::
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810
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811 <html metal:define-macro="page">
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812 ...
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813 </html>
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814
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815 defines a macro called "page" using the ``<html>`` tag and its contents.
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816 Once defined, macros are stored on the template they're defined on in the
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817 ``macros`` attribute. You can access them later on through the ``templates``
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818 variable, eg. the most common ``templates/page/macros/icing`` to access the
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819 "page" macro of the "page" template.
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820
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821 **metal:use-macro="path expression"**
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822 Use a macro, which is identified by the path expression (see above). This
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823 will replace the current tag with the identified macro contents. For
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824 example::
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825
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826 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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827 ...
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828 </tal:block>
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829
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830 will replace the tag and its contents with the "page" macro of the "page"
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831 template.
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832
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833 **metal:define-slot="slot name"** and **metal:fill-slot="slot name"**
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834 To define *dynamic* parts of the macro, you define "slots" which may be
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835 filled when the macro is used with a *use-macro* command. For example, the
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836 ``templates/page/macros/icing`` macro defines a slot like so::
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837
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838 <title metal:define-slot="head_title">title goes here</title>
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839
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840 In your *use-macro* command, you may now use a *fill-slot* command like
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841 this::
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842
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843 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">My Title</title>
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844
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845 where the tag that fills the slot completely replaces the one defined as
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846 the slot in the macro.
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847
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848 Note that you may not mix METAL and TAL commands on the same tag, but TAL
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849 commands may be used freely inside METAL-using tags (so your *fill-slots*
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850 tags may have all manner of TAL inside them).
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851
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852
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853 Information available to templates
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854 ----------------------------------
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855
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856 Note: this is implemented by roundup.cgi.templating.RoundupPageTemplate
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857
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858 The following variables are available to templates.
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859
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860 **context**
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861 The current context. This is either None, a
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862 `hyperdb class wrapper`_ or a `hyperdb item wrapper`_
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863 **request**
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864 Includes information about the current request, including:
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865 - the url
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866 - the current index information (``filterspec``, ``filter`` args,
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867 ``properties``, etc) parsed out of the form.
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868 - methods for easy filterspec link generation
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869 - *user*, the current user item as an HTMLItem instance
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870 - *form*
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871 The current CGI form information as a mapping of form argument
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872 name to value
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873 **tracker**
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874 The current tracker
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875 **db**
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876 The current database, through which db.config may be reached.
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877 **templates**
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878 Access to all the tracker templates by name. Used mainly in *use-macro*
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879 commands.
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880 **utils**
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881 This variable makes available some utility functions like batching.
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882 **nothing**
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883 This is a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then the
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884 tag (in the case of a tal:replace), its contents (in the case of
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885 tal:content) or some attributes (in the case of tal:attributes) will not
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886 appear in the the output. So for example::
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888 <span tal:attributes="class nothing">Hello, World!</span>
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892 <span>Hello, World!</span>
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894 **default**
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895 Also a special variable - if an expression evaluates to this, then the
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896 existing HTML in the template will not be replaced or removed, it will
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897 remain. So::
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898
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899 <span tal:replace="default">Hello, World!</span>
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900
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901 would result in::
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903 <span>Hello, World!</span>
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905 The context variable
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906 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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907
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908 The *context* variable is one of three things based on the current context
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909 (see `determining web context`_ for how we figure this out):
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910
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911 1. if we're looking at a "home" page, then it's None
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912 2. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb class, it's a
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913 `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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914 3. if we're looking at a specific hyperdb item, it's a
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915 `hyperdb item wrapper`_.
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916
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917 If the context is not None, we can access the properties of the class or item.
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918 The only real difference between cases 2 and 3 above are:
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919
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920 1. the properties may have a real value behind them, and this will appear if
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921 the property is displayed through ``context/property`` or
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922 ``context/property/field``.
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923 2. the context's "id" property will be a false value in the second case, but
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924 a real, or true value in the third. Thus we can determine whether we're
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925 looking at a real item from the hyperdb by testing "context/id".
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926
1123
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927 Hyperdb class wrapper
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928 :::::::::::::::::::::
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929
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930 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLClass class.
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931
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932 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb class. It is used primarily
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933 in both index view and new item views, but it's also usable anywhere else that
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934 you wish to access information about a class, or the items of a class, when
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935 you don't have a specific item of that class in mind.
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936
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937 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
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938 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name from
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939 the CGI form.
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940
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941 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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942
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943 =========== =============================================================
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944 Method Description
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945 =========== =============================================================
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946 properties return a `hyperdb property wrapper`_ for all of this class'
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947 properties.
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948 list lists all of the active (not retired) items in the class.
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949 csv return the items of this class as a chunk of CSV text.
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950 propnames lists the names of the properties of this class.
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951 filter lists of items from this class, filtered and sorted
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952 by the current *request* filterspec/filter/sort/group args
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953 classhelp display a link to a javascript popup containing this class'
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954 "help" template.
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955 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
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956 renderWith render this class with the given template.
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957 history returns 'New node - no history' :)
1136
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958 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current class?
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959 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current class?
1123
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960 =========== =============================================================
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961
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962 Note that if you have a property of the same name as one of the above methods,
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963 you'll need to access it using a python "item access" expression. For example::
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964
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965 python:context['list']
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966
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967 will access the "list" property, rather than the list method.
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968
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969
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970 Hyperdb item wrapper
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971 ::::::::::::::::::::
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972
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973 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLItem class.
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974
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975 This wrapper object provides access to a hyperb item.
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976
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977 We allow access to properties. There will be no "id" property. The value
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978 accessed through the property will be the current value of the same name from
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979 the CGI form.
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980
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981 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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982
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983 =============== =============================================================
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984 Method Description
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985 =============== =============================================================
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986 submit generate a submit button (and action hidden element)
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987 journal return the journal of the current item (**not implemented**)
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988 history render the journal of the current item as HTML
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989 renderQueryForm specific to the "query" class - render the search form for
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990 the query
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991 hasPermission specific to the "user" class - determine whether the user
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992 has a Permission
1136
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993 is_edit_ok is the user allowed to Edit the current item?
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994 is_view_ok is the user allowed to View the current item?
1123
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995 =============== =============================================================
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996
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997
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998 Note that if you have a property of the same name as one of the above methods,
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999 you'll need to access it using a python "item access" expression. For example::
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1000
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1001 python:context['journal']
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1002
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1003 will access the "journal" property, rather than the journal method.
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1004
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1005
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1006 Hyperdb property wrapper
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1007 ::::::::::::::::::::::::
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1008
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1009 Note: this is implemented by subclasses roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLProperty
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1010 class (HTMLStringProperty, HTMLNumberProperty, and so on).
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1011
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1012 This wrapper object provides access to a single property of a class. Its
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1013 value may be either:
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1014
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1015 1. if accessed through a `hyperdb item wrapper`_, then it's a value from the
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1016 hyperdb
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1017 2. if access through a `hyperdb class wrapper`_, then it's a value from the
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1018 CGI form
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1019
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1020
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1021 The property wrapper has some useful attributes:
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1022
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1023 =============== =============================================================
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1024 Attribute Description
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1025 =============== =============================================================
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1026 _name the name of the property
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1027 _value the value of the property if any
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1028 =============== =============================================================
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1029
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1030 There are several methods available on these wrapper objects:
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1031
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1032 =========== =================================================================
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1033 Method Description
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1034 =========== =================================================================
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1035 plain render a "plain" representation of the property
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1036 field render a form edit field for the property
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1037 stext only on String properties - render the value of the
1123
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1038 property as StructuredText (requires the StructureText module
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1039 to be installed separately)
1124
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1040 multiline only on String properties - render a multiline form edit
1123
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1041 field for the property
1124
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1042 email only on String properties - render the value of the
1123
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1043 property as an obscured email address
1144
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1044 confirm only on Password properties - render a second form edit field for
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1045 the property, used for confirmation that the user typed the
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1046 password correctly. Generates a field with name "name:confirm".
1124
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1047 reldate only on Date properties - render the interval between the
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1048 date and now
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1049 pretty only on Interval properties - render the interval in a
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1050 pretty format (eg. "yesterday")
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1051 menu only on Link and Multilink properties - render a form select
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1052 list for this property
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1053 reverse only on Multilink properties - produce a list of the linked
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1054 items in reverse order
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1055 =========== =================================================================
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1056
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1057 The request variable
1098
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1058 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1059
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1060 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest class.
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1061
1073
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1062 The request variable is packed with information about the current request.
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1063
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1064 .. taken from roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLRequest docstring
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1065
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1066 =========== =================================================================
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1067 Variable Holds
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1068 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1069 form the CGI form as a cgi.FieldStorage
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1070 env the CGI environment variables
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1071 url the current URL path for this request
1089
43ab730ee194 instance -> tracker, node -> item
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parents: 1083
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1072 base the base URL for this tracker
1073
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1073 user a HTMLUser instance for this user
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1074 classname the current classname (possibly None)
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1075 template the current template (suffix, also possibly None)
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1076 form the current CGI form variables in a FieldStorage
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1077 =========== =================================================================
1083
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1078
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1079 **Index page specific variables (indexing arguments)**
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1080
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1081 =========== =================================================================
1083
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1082 Variable Holds
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1083 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1084 columns dictionary of the columns to display in an index page
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1085 show a convenience access to columns - request/show/colname will
1098
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parents: 1096
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1086 be true if the columns should be displayed, false otherwise
1073
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1087 sort index sort column (direction, column name)
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parents: 1070
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1088 group index grouping property (direction, column name)
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parents: 1070
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1089 filter properties to filter the index on
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1090 filterspec values to filter the index on
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1091 search_text text to perform a full-text search on for an index
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1092 =========== =================================================================
1073
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1093
1124
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1094 There are several methods available on the request variable:
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1095
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1096 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1097 Method Description
1144
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1098 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1099 description render a description of the request - handle for the page
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1100 title
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1101 indexargs_form render the current index args as form elements
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1102 indexargs_url render the current index args as a URL
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1103 base_javascript render some javascript that is used by other components of
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1104 the templating
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1105 batch run the current index args through a filter and return a
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1106 list of items (see `hyperdb item wrapper`_, and
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1107 `batching`_)
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1108 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1109
1142
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1110 The form variable
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1111 :::::::::::::::::
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1112
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1113 The form variable is a little special because it's actually a python
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1114 FieldStorage object. That means that you have two ways to access its
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1115 contents. For example, to look up the CGI form value for the variable
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1116 "name", use the path expression::
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1117
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1118 request/form/name/value
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1119
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1120 or the python expression::
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1121
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1122 python:request.form['name'].value
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1123
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1124 Note the "item" access used in the python case, and also note the explicit
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1125 "value" attribute we have to access. That's because the form variables are
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1126 stored as MiniFieldStorages. If there's more than one "name" value in
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1127 the form, then the above will break since ``request/form/name`` is actually a
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1128 *list* of MiniFieldStorages. So it's best to know beforehand what you're
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1129 dealing with.
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1130
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1131
1123
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1132 The db variable
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1133 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1134
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1135 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.HTMLDatabase class.
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1136
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1137 Allows access to all hyperdb classes as attributes of this variable. If you
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1138 want access to the "user" class, for example, you would use::
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1139
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1140 db/user
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1141 python:db.user
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1142
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1143 The access results in a `hyperdb class wrapper`_.
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1144
1213
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1145 The templates variable
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1146 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1073
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1147
1213
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1148 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.Templates class.
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1149
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diff changeset
1150 This variable doesn't have any useful methods defined. It supports being
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1151 used in expressions to access the templates, and subsequently the template
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1152 macros. You may access the templates using the following path expression::
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1153
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diff changeset
1154 templates/name
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1155
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1156 or the python expression::
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1157
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diff changeset
1158 templates[name]
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1159
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1160 where "name" is the name of the template you wish to access. The template you
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1161 get access to has one useful attribute, "macros". To access a specific macro
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1162 (called "macro_name"), use the path expression::
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1163
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diff changeset
1164 templates/name/macros/macro_name
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1165
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1166 or the python expression::
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1167
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diff changeset
1168 templates[name].macros[macro_name]
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parents: 1164
diff changeset
1169
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parents: 1164
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1170
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1171 The utils variable
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1172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1124
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1173
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1174 Note: this is implemented by the roundup.cgi.templating.TemplatingUtils class.
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1175
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1176 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1177 Method Description
1144
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1178 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1179 Batch return a batch object using the supplied list
1144
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1180 =============== =============================================================
1124
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1181
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1182 Batching
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1183 ::::::::
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1184
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1185 Use Batch to turn a list of items, or item ids of a given class, into a series
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1186 of batches. Its usage is::
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1187
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1188 python:util.Batch(sequence, size, start, end=0, orphan=0, overlap=0)
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1189
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1190 or, to get the current index batch::
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1191
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1192 request/batch
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1193
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1194 The parameters are:
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1195
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1196 ========= ==================================================================
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1197 Parameter Usage
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1198 ========= ==================================================================
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1199 sequence a list of HTMLItems
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1200 size how big to make the sequence.
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1201 start where to start (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1202 end where to end (0-indexed) in the sequence.
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1203 orphan if the next batch would contain less items than this
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1204 value, then it is combined with this batch
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1205 overlap the number of items shared between adjacent batches
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1206 ========= ==================================================================
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1207
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1208 All of the parameters are assigned as attributes on the batch object. In
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1209 addition, it has several more attributes:
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1210
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1211 =============== ============================================================
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1212 Attribute Description
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1213 =============== ============================================================
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1214 start indicates the start index of the batch. *Note: unlike the
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1215 argument, is a 1-based index (I know, lame)*
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1216 first indicates the start index of the batch *as a 0-based
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1217 index*
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1218 length the actual number of elements in the batch
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1219 sequence_length the length of the original, unbatched, sequence.
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1220 =============== ============================================================
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1221
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1222 And several methods:
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1223
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1224 =============== ============================================================
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1225 Method Description
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1226 =============== ============================================================
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1227 previous returns a new Batch with the previous batch settings
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1228 next returns a new Batch with the next batch settings
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1229 propchanged detect if the named property changed on the current item
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1230 when compared to the last item
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1231 =============== ============================================================
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1232
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1233 An example of batching::
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1234
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1235 <table class="otherinfo">
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1236 <tr><th colspan="4" class="header">Existing Keywords</th></tr>
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1237 <tr tal:define="keywords db/keyword/list"
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1238 tal:repeat="start python:range(0, len(keywords), 4)">
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1239 <td tal:define="batch python:utils.Batch(keywords, 4, start)"
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1240 tal:repeat="keyword batch" tal:content="keyword/name">keyword here</td>
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1241 </tr>
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1242 </table>
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1243
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1244 ... which will produce a table with four columns containing the items of the
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1245 "keyword" class (well, their "name" anyway).
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1246
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1247 Displaying Properties
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1248 ---------------------
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1249
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1250 Properties appear in the user interface in three contexts: in indices, in
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1251 editors, and as search arguments.
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1252 For each type of property, there are several display possibilities.
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1253 For example, in an index view, a string property may just be
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1254 printed as a plain string, but in an editor view, that property may be
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1255 displayed in an editable field.
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1258 Index Views
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1259 -----------
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1260
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1261 This is one of the class context views. It is also the default view for
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1262 classes. The template used is "*classname*.index".
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1263
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1264 Index View Specifiers
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1265 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1266
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1267 An index view specifier (URL fragment) looks like this (whitespace has been
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1268 added for clarity)::
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1269
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1270 /issue?status=unread,in-progress,resolved&
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1271 topic=security,ui&
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1272 :group=+priority&
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1273 :sort==activity&
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1274 :filters=status,topic&
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1275 :columns=title,status,fixer
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1277 The index view is determined by two parts of the specifier: the layout part and
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1278 the filter part. The layout part consists of the query parameters that begin
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1279 with colons, and it determines the way that the properties of selected items
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1280 are displayed. The filter part consists of all the other query parameters, and
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1281 it determines the criteria by which items are selected for display.
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1282 The filter part is interactively manipulated with the form widgets displayed in
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1283 the filter section. The layout part is interactively manipulated by clicking on
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1284 the column headings in the table.
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1285
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1286 The filter part selects the union of the sets of items with values matching any
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1287 specified Link properties and the intersection of the sets of items with values
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1288 matching any specified Multilink properties.
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1289
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1290 The example specifies an index of "issue" items. Only items with a "status" of
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1291 either "unread" or "in-progres" or "resolved" are displayed, and only items
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1292 with "topic" values including both "security" and "ui" are displayed. The items
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1293 are grouped by priority, arranged in ascending order; and within groups, sorted
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1294 by activity, arranged in descending order. The filter section shows filters for
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1295 the "status" and "topic" properties, and the table includes columns for the
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1296 "title", "status", and "fixer" properties.
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1297
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1298 Filtering of indexes
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1299 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1300
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1301 TODO
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1302
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1303 Searching Views
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1304 ---------------
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1305
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1306 This is one of the class context views. The template used is typically
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1307 "*classname*.search".
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1308
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1309 TODO
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1310
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1311 Item Views
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1312 ----------
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1313
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1314 The basic view of a hyperdb item is provided by the "*classname*.item"
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1315 template. It generally has three sections; an "editor", a "spool" and a
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1316 "history" section.
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1317
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1318
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1320 Editor Section
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1321 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1322
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1323 The editor section is used to manipulate the item - it may be a
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1324 static display if the user doesn't have permission to edit the item.
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1325
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1326 Here's an example of a basic editor template (this is the default "classic"
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1327 template issue item edit form - from the "issue.item" template)::
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1328
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1329 <table class="form">
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1330 <tr>
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1331 <th nowrap>Title</th>
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1332 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure python:context.title.field(size=60)">title</td>
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1333 </tr>
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1334
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1335 <tr>
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1336 <th nowrap>Priority</th>
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1337 <td tal:content="structure context/priority/menu">priority</td>
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1338 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1339 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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1340 </tr>
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1341
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1342 <tr>
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1343 <th nowrap>Superseder</th>
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1344 <td>
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1345 <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.field(showid=1, size=20)" />
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1346 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.issue.classhelp('id,title')" />
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1347 <span tal:condition="context/superseder">
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1348 <br>View: <span tal:replace="structure python:context.superseder.link(showid=1)" />
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1349 </span>
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1350 </td>
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1351 <th nowrap>Nosy List</th>
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1352 <td>
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1353 <span tal:replace="structure context/nosy/field" />
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1354 <span tal:replace="structure python:db.user.classhelp('username,realname,address,phone')" />
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1355 </td>
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1356 </tr>
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1358 <tr>
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1359 <th nowrap>Assigned To</th>
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1360 <td tal:content="structure context/assignedto/menu">
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1361 assignedto menu
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1362 </td>
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1363 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1364 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1365 </tr>
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1367 <tr>
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1368 <th nowrap>Change Note</th>
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1369 <td colspan=3>
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1370 <textarea name=":note" wrap="hard" rows="5" cols="60"></textarea>
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1371 </td>
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1374 <tr>
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1375 <th nowrap>File</th>
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1376 <td colspan=3><input type="file" name=":file" size="40"></td>
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1377 </tr>
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1379 <tr>
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1380 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1381 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1382 submit button will go here
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1383 </td>
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1384 </tr>
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1385 </table>
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1386
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604c84696461 link() htmltemplate function now has a "showid" option for links & multilinks.
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1387
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1388 When a change is submitted, the system automatically generates a message
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1389 describing the changed properties. As shown in the example, the editor
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1390 template can use the ":note" and ":file" fields, which are added to the
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1391 standard change note message generated by Roundup.
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1392
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1393 Spool Section
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1394 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1395
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1396 The spool section lists related information like the messages and files of
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1397 an issue.
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1398
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1399 TODO
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1400
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1401
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1402 History Section
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1403 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1404
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1405 The final section displayed is the history of the item - its database journal.
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1406 This is generally generated with the template::
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1407
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1408 <tal:block tal:replace="structure context/history" />
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1409
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1410 *To be done:*
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1411
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1412 *The actual history entries of the item may be accessed for manual templating
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1413 through the "journal" method of the item*::
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1414
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1415 <tal:block tal:repeat="entry context/journal">
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1416 a journal entry
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1417 </tal:block>
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1418
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1419 *where each journal entry is an HTMLJournalEntry.*
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1420
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1421 Defining new web actions
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1422 ------------------------
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1423
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1424 XXX
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1425
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1426
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1427 Access Controls
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1428 ===============
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1429
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1430 A set of Permissions are built in to the security module by default:
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1431
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1432 - Edit (everything)
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1433 - View (everything)
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1434
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1435 The default interfaces define:
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1436
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1437 - Web Registration
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1438 - Web Access
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1439 - Web Roles
910
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1440 - Email Registration
935
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1441 - Email Access
910
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1442
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1443 These are hooked into the default Roles:
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1444
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1445 - Admin (Edit everything, View everything, Web Roles)
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1446 - User (Web Access, Email Access)
910
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1447 - Anonymous (Web Registration, Email Registration)
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1448
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1449 And finally, the "admin" user gets the "Admin" Role, and the "anonymous" user
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1450 gets the "Anonymous" assigned when the database is initialised on installation.
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1451 The two default schemas then define:
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1452
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1453 - Edit issue, View issue (both)
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1454 - Edit file, View file (both)
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1455 - Edit msg, View msg (both)
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1456 - Edit support, View support (extended only)
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1457
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1458 and assign those Permissions to the "User" Role. New users are assigned the
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1459 Roles defined in the config file as:
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1460
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1461 - NEW_WEB_USER_ROLES
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1462 - NEW_EMAIL_USER_ROLES
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1463
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1464 You may alter the configuration variables to change the Role that new web or
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1465 email users get, for example to not give them access to the web interface if
299f4890427d documentation reorg post-new-security
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1466 they register through email.
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1467
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1468 You may use the ``roundup-admin`` "``security``" command to display the
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1469 current Role and Permission configuration in your tracker.
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1470
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1471 Adding a new Permission
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1472 -----------------------
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1473
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1474 When adding a new Permission, you will need to:
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1475
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1476 1. add it to your tracker's dbinit so it is created
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1477 2. enable it for the Roles that should have it (verify with
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1478 "``roundup-admin security``")
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1479 3. add it to the relevant HTML interface templates
1089
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1480 4. add it to the appropriate xxxPermission methods on in your tracker
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1481 interfaces module
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1482
1234
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1483 Example Scenarios
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1484 -----------------
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1485
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1486 **automatic registration of users in the e-mail gateway**
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1487 By giving the "anonymous" user the "Email Registration" Role, any
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1488 unidentified user will automatically be registered with the tracker (with
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1489 no password, so they won't be able to log in through the web until an admin
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1490 sets them a password). Note: this is the default behaviour in the tracker
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diff changeset
1491 templates that ship with Roundup.
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1492
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1493 **anonymous access through the e-mail gateway**
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1494 Give the "anonymous" user the "Email Access" and ("Edit", "issue") Roles
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1495 but not giving them the "Email Registration" Role. This means that when an
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diff changeset
1496 unknown user sends email into the tracker, they're automatically logged in
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diff changeset
1497 as "anonymous". Since they don't have the "Email Registration" Role, they
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diff changeset
1498 won't be automatically registered, but since "anonymous" has permission
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diff changeset
1499 to use the gateway, they'll still be able to submit issues. Note that the
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diff changeset
1500 Sender information - their email address - will not be available - they're
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diff changeset
1501 *anonymous*.
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1502
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1503 XXX more examples needed
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1504
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1505
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1506 Examples
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1507 ========
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1508
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1509 Adding a new field to the classic schema
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1510 ----------------------------------------
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1511
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1512 This example shows how to add a new constrained property (ie. a selection of
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1513 distinct values) to your tracker.
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1514
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1515 Introduction
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1516 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1517
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1518 To make the classic schema of roundup useful as a todo tracking system
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1519 for a group of systems administrators, it needed an extra data field
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1520 per issue: a category.
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1521
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1522 This would let sysads quickly list all todos in their particular
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1523 area of interest without having to do complex queries, and without
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1524 relying on the spelling capabilities of other sysads (a losing
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1525 proposition at best).
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1526
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1527 Adding a field to the database
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1528 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1529
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1530 This is the easiest part of the change. The category would just be a plain
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1531 string, nothing fancy. To change what is in the database you need to add
1235
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1532 some lines to the ``open()`` function in ``dbinit.py`` under the comment::
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1533
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1534 # add any additional database schema configuration here
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1535
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1536 add::
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1538 category = Class(db, "category", name=String())
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1539 category.setkey("name")
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1540
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1541 Here we are setting up a chunk of the database which we are calling
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1542 "category". It contains a string, which we are refering to as "name" for
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1543 lack of a more imaginative title. Then we are setting the key of this chunk
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1544 of the database to be that "name". This is equivalent to an index for
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1545 database types. This also means that there can only be one category with a
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1546 given name.
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1547
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1548 Adding the above lines allows us to create categories, but they're not tied
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1549 to the issues that we are going to be creating. It's just a list of categories
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1550 off on its own, which isn't much use. We need to link it in with the issues.
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1551 To do that, find the lines in the ``open()`` function in ``dbinit.py`` which
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1552 set up the "issue" class, and then add a link to the category::
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1553
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1554 issue = IssueClass(db, "issue", ... , category=Multilink("category"), ... )
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1555
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1556 The Multilink() means that each issue can have many categories. If you were
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1557 adding something with a more one to one relationship use Link() instead.
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1558
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1559 That is all you need to do to change the schema. The rest of the effort is
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1560 fiddling around so you can actually use the new category.
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1561
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1562 Populating the new category class
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1563 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1564
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1565 If you haven't initialised the database with the roundup-admin "initialise"
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1566 command, then you can add the following to the tracker ``dbinit.py`` in the
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1567 ``init()`` function under the comment::
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1568
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1569 # add any additional database create steps here - but only if you
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1570 # haven't initialised the database with the admin "initialise" command
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1571
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1572 add::
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1573
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1574 category = db.getclass('category')
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1575 category.create(name="scipy", order="1")
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1576 category.create(name="chaco", order="2")
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1577 category.create(name="weave", order="3")
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1578
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1579 If the database is initalised, the you need to use the roundup-admin tool::
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1580
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1581 % roundup-admin -i <tracker home>
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1582 Roundup <version> ready for input.
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1583 Type "help" for help.
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1584 roundup> create category name=scipy order=1
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1585 1
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1586 roundup> create category name=chaco order=1
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1587 2
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1588 roundup> create category name=weave order=1
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1589 3
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1590 roundup> exit...
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1591 There are unsaved changes. Commit them (y/N)? y
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1592
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1593
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1594 Setting up security on the new objects
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1595 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1596
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1597 By default only the admin user can look at and change objects. This doesn't
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1598 suit us, as we want any user to be able to create new categories as
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1599 required, and obviously everyone needs to be able to view the categories of
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1600 issues for it to be useful.
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1601
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1602 We therefore need to change the security of the category objects. This is
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1603 also done in the ``open()`` function of ``dbinit.py``.
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1604
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1605 There are currently two loops which set up permissions and then assign them
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1606 to various roles. Simply add the new "category" to both lists::
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1607
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1608 # new permissions for this schema
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1609 for cl in 'issue', 'file', 'msg', 'user', 'category':
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1610 db.security.addPermission(name="Edit", klass=cl,
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1611 description="User is allowed to edit "+cl)
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1612 db.security.addPermission(name="View", klass=cl,
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1613 description="User is allowed to access "+cl)
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1614
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1615 # Assign the access and edit permissions for issue, file and message
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1616 # to regular users now
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1617 for cl in 'issue', 'file', 'msg', 'category':
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1618 p = db.security.getPermission('View', cl)
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1619 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1620 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', cl)
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1621 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1622
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1623 So you are in effect doing the following::
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1624
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1625 db.security.addPermission(name="Edit", klass='category',
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1626 description="User is allowed to edit "+'category')
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1627 db.security.addPermission(name="View", klass='category',
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1628 description="User is allowed to access "+'category')
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1629
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1630 which is creating two permission types; that of editing and viewing
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1631 "category" objects respectively. Then the following lines assign those new
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1632 permissions to the "User" role, so that normal users can view and edit
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1633 "category" objects::
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1634
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1635 p = db.security.getPermission('View', 'category')
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1636 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1637
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1638 p = db.security.getPermission('Edit', 'category')
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1639 db.security.addPermissionToRole('User', p)
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1640
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1641 This is all the work that needs to be done for the database. It will store
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1642 categories, and let users view and edit them. Now on to the interface
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1643 stuff.
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1644
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1645 Changing the web left hand frame
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1646 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1647
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1648 We need to give the users the ability to create new categories, and the
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1649 place to put the link to this functionality is in the left hand function
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1650 bar, under the "Issues" area. The file that defines how this area looks is
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1651 ``html/page``, which is what we are going to be editing next.
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1652
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1653 If you look at this file you can see that it contains a lot of "classblock"
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1654 sections which are chunks of HTML that will be included or excluded in the
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1655 output depending on whether the condition in the classblock is met. Under
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1656 the end of the classblock for issue is where we are going to add the
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1657 category code::
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1658
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1659 <p class="classblock"
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1660 tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('View', 'category')">
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1661 <b>Categories</b><br>
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1662 <a tal:condition="python:request.user.hasPermission('Edit', 'category')"
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1663 href="category?:template=item">New Category<br></a>
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1664 </p>
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1665
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1666 The first two lines is the classblock definition, which sets up a condition
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1667 that only users who have "View" permission to the "category" object will
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1668 have this section included in their output. Next comes a plain "Categories"
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1669 header in bold. Everyone who can view categories will get that.
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1670
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1671 Next comes the link to the editing area of categories. This link will only
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1672 appear if the condition is matched: that condition being that the user has
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1673 "Edit" permissions for the "category" objects. If they do have permission
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1674 then they will get a link to another page which will let the user add new
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1675 categories.
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1676
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1677 Note that if you have permission to view but not edit categories then all
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1678 you will see is a "Categories" header with nothing underneath it. This is
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1679 obviously not very good interface design, but will do for now. I just claim
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1680 that it is so I can add more links in this section later on. However to fix
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1681 the problem you could change the condition in the classblock statement, so
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1682 that only users with "Edit" permission would see the "Categories" stuff.
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1683
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1684 Setting up a page to edit categories
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1685 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1686
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1687 We defined code in the previous section which let users with the
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1688 appropriate permissions see a link to a page which would let them edit
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1689 conditions. Now we have to write that page.
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1690
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1691 The link was for the item template for the category object. This translates
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1692 into the system looking for a file called ``category.item`` in the ``html``
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1693 tracker directory. This is the file that we are going to write now.
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1694
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1695 First we add an info tag in a comment which doesn't affect the outcome
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1696 of the code at all but is useful for debugging. If you load a page in a
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1697 browser and look at the page source, you can see which sections come
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1698 from which files by looking for these comments::
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1699
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1700 <!-- category.item -->
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1701
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1702 Next we need to add in the METAL macro stuff so we get the normal page
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1703 trappings::
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1704
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1705 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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1706 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">Category editing</title>
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1707 <td class="page-header-top" metal:fill-slot="body_title">
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1708 <h2>Category editing</h2>
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1709 </td>
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1710 <td class="content" metal:fill-slot="content">
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1711
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1712 Next we need to setup up a standard HTML form, which is the whole
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1713 purpose of this file. We link to some handy javascript which sends the form
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1714 through only once. This is to stop users hitting the send button
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1715 multiple times when they are impatient and thus having the form sent
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1716 multiple times::
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1717
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1718 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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1719 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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1720
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1721 Next we define some code which sets up the minimum list of fields that we
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1722 require the user to enter. There will be only one field, that of "name", so
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1723 they user better put something in it otherwise the whole form is pointless::
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1724
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1725 <input type="hidden" name=":required" value="name">
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1726
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1727 To get everything to line up properly we will put everything in a table,
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1728 and put a nice big header on it so the user has an idea what is happening::
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1729
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1730 <table class="form">
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1731 <tr><th class="header" colspan=2>Category</th></tr>
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1732
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1733 Next we need the actual field that the user is going to enter the new
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1734 category. The "context.name.field(size=60)" bit tells roundup to generate a
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1735 normal HTML field of size 60, and the contents of that field will be the
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1736 "name" variable of the current context (which is "category"). The upshot of
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1737 this is that when the user types something in to the form, a new category
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1738 will be created with that name::
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1739
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1740 <tr>
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1741 <th nowrap>Name</th>
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1742 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">name</td>
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1743 </tr>
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1744
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1745 Then a submit button so that the user can submit the new category::
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1746
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1747 <tr>
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1748 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1749 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1750 submit button will go here
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1751 </td>
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1752 </tr>
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1753
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1754 Finally we finish off the tags we used at the start to do the METAL stuff::
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1755
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1756 </td>
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1757 </tal:block>
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1758
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1759 So putting it all together, and closing the table and form we get::
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1760
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1761 <!-- category.item -->
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1762 <tal:block metal:use-macro="templates/page/macros/icing">
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1763 <title metal:fill-slot="head_title">Category editing</title>
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1764 <td class="page-header-top" metal:fill-slot="body_title">
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1765 <h2>Category editing</h2>
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1766 </td>
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1767 <td class="content" metal:fill-slot="content">
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1768 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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1769 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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1770
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1771 <input type="hidden" name=":required" value="name">
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1772
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1773 <table class="form">
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1774 <tr><th class="header" colspan=2>Category</th></tr>
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1775
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1776 <tr>
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1777 <th nowrap>Name</th>
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1778 <td tal:content="structure python:context.name.field(size=60)">name</td>
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1779 </tr>
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1780
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1781 <tr>
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1782 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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1783 <td colspan=3 tal:content="structure context/submit">
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1784 submit button will go here
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1785 </td>
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1786 </tr>
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1787 </table>
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1788 </form>
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1789 </td>
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1790 </tal:block>
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1791
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1792 This is quite a lot to just ask the user one simple question, but
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1793 there is a lot of setup for basically one line (the form line) to do
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1794 its work. To add another field to "category" would involve one more line
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1795 (well maybe a few extra to get the formatting correct).
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1796
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1797 Adding the category to the issue
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1798 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1799
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1800 We now have the ability to create issues to our hearts content, but
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1801 that is pointless unless we can assign categories to issues. Just like
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1802 the ``html/category.item`` file was used to define how to add a new
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1803 category, the ``html/issue.item`` is used to define how a new issue is
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1804 created.
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1805
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1806 Just like ``category.issue`` this file defines a form which has a table to lay
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1807 things out. It doesn't matter where in the table we add new stuff,
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1808 it is entirely up to your sense of aesthetics::
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1809
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1810 <th nowrap>Category</th>
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1811 <td><span tal:replace="structure context/category/field" />
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1812 <span tal:replace="structure db/category/classhelp" />
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1813 </td>
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1814
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1815 First we define a nice header so that the user knows what the next section
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1816 is, then the middle line does what we are most interested in. This
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1817 ``context/category/field`` gets replaced with a field which contains the
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1818 category in the current context (the current context being the new issue).
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1819
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1820 The classhelp lines generate a link (labelled "list") to a popup window
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1821 which contains the list of currently known categories.
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1822
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1823 Searching on categories
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1824 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1825
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1826 We can add categories, and create issues with categories. The next obvious
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1827 thing that we would like to be would be to search issues based on their
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1828 category, so that any one working on the web server could look at all
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1829 issues in the category "Web" for example.
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1830
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1831 If you look in the html/page file and look for the "Search Issues" you will
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1832 see that it looks something like ``<a href="issue?:template=search">Search
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1833 Issues</a>`` which shows us that when you click on "Search Issues" it will
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1834 be looking for a ``issue.search`` file to display. So that is indeed the file
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1835 that we are going to change.
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1836
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1837 If you look at this file it should be starting to seem familiar. It is a
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1838 simple HTML form using a table to define structure. You can add the new
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1839 category search code anywhere you like within that form::
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1840
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1841 <tr>
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1842 <th>Category:</th>
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1843 <td>
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1844 <select name="category">
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1845 <option value="">don't care</option>
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1846 <option value="">------------</option>
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1847 <option tal:repeat="s db/category/list" tal:attributes="value s/name"
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1848 tal:content="s/name">category to filter on</option>
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1849 </select>
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1850 </td>
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1851 <td><input type="checkbox" name=":columns" value="category" checked></td>
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1852 <td><input type="radio" name=":sort" value="category"></td>
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1853 <td><input type="radio" name=":group" value="category"></td>
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1854 </tr>
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1855
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1856 Most of this is straightforward to anyone who knows HTML. It is just
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1857 setting up a select list followed by a checkbox and a couple of radio
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1858 buttons.
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1859
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1860 The ``tal:repeat`` part repeats the tag for every item in the "category"
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1861 table and setting "s" to be each category in turn.
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1862
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1863 The ``tal:attributes`` part is setting up the ``value=`` part of the option tag
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1864 to be the name part of "s" which is the current category in the loop.
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1865
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1866 The ``tal:content`` part is setting the contents of the option tag to be the
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1867 name part of "s" again. For objects more complex than category, obviously
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1868 you would put an id in the value, and the descriptive part in the content;
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1869 but for category they are the same.
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1870
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1871 Adding category to the default view
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1873
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1874 We can now add categories, add issues with categories, and search issues
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1875 based on categories. This is everything that we need to do, however there
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1876 is some more icing that we would like. I think the category of an issue is
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1877 important enough that it should be displayed by default when listing all
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1878 the issues.
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1879
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1880 Unfortunately, this is a bit less obvious than the previous steps. The code
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1881 defining how the issues look is in ``html/issue.index``. This is a large table
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1882 with a form down the bottom for redisplaying and so forth.
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1883
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1884 Firstly we need to add an appropriate header to the start of the table::
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1885
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1886 <th tal:condition="request/show/category">Category</th>
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1887
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1888 The condition part of this statement is so that if the user has selected
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1889 not to see the Category column then they won't.
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1890
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1891 The rest of the table is a loop which will go through every issue that
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1892 matches the display criteria. The loop variable is "i" - which means that
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1893 every issue gets assigned to "i" in turn.
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1894
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1895 The new part of code to display the category will look like this::
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1896
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1897 <td tal:condition="request/show/category" tal:content="i/category"></td>
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1898
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1899 The condition is the same as above: only display the condition when the
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1900 user hasn't asked for it to be hidden. The next part is to set the content
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1901 of the cell to be the category part of "i" - the current issue.
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1902
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1903 Finally we have to edit ``html/page`` again. This time to tell it that when the
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1904 user clicks on "Unnasigned Issues" or "All Issues" that the category should
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1905 be displayed. If you scroll down the page file, you can see the links with
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1906 lots of options. The option that we are interested in is the ``:columns=`` one
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1907 which tells roundup which fields of the issue to display. Simply add
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1908 "category" to that list and it all should work.
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1909
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1910
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1911 Adding in state transition control
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1913
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1914 Sometimes tracker admins want to control the states that users may move issues
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1915 to.
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1916
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1917 1. add a Multilink property to the status class::
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1918
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1919 stat = Class(db, "status", ... , transitions=Multilink('status'), ...)
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1920
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1921 and then edit the statuses already created through the web using the
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1922 generic class list / CSV editor.
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1923
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1924 2. add an auditor module ``checktransition.py`` in your tracker's
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1925 ``detectors`` directory::
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1926
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1927 def checktransition(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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1928 ''' Check that the desired transition is valid for the "status"
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1929 property.
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1930 '''
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1931 if not newvalues.has_key('status'):
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1932 return
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1933 current = cl.get(nodeid, 'status')
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1934 new = newvalues['status']
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1935 if new == current:
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1936 return
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1937 ok = db.status.get(current, 'transitions')
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1938 if new not in ok:
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1939 raise ValueError, 'Status not allowed to move from "%s" to "%s"'%(
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1940 db.status.get(current, 'name'), db.status.get(new, 'name'))
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1941
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1942 def init(db):
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1943 db.issue.audit('set', checktransition)
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1944
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1945 3. in the ``issue.item`` template, change the status editing bit from::
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1946
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1947 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1948 <td tal:content="structure context/status/menu">status</td>
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1949
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1950 to::
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1951
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1952 <th nowrap>Status</th>
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1953 <td>
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1954 <select tal:condition="context/id" name="status">
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1955 <tal:block tal:define="ok context/status/transitions"
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1956 tal:repeat="state db/status/list">
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1957 <option tal:condition="python:state.id in ok"
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1958 tal:attributes="value state/id;
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1959 selected python:state.id == context.status.id"
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1960 tal:content="state/name"></option>
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1961 </tal:block>
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1962 </select>
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1963 <tal:block tal:condition="not:context/id"
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1964 tal:replace="structure context/status/menu" />
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1965 </td>
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1966
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1967 which displays only the allowed status to transition to.
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1970 Displaying entire message contents in the issue display
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1971 -------------------------------------------------------
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1972
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1973 Alter the issue.item template section for messages to::
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1974
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1975 <table class="messages" tal:condition="context/messages">
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1976 <tr><th colspan=3 class="header">Messages</th></tr>
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1977 <tal:block tal:repeat="msg context/messages/reverse">
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1978 <tr>
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1979 <th><a tal:attributes="href string:msg${msg/id}"
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1980 tal:content="string:msg${msg/id}"></a></th>
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1981 <th tal:content="string:Author: ${msg/author}">author</th>
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1982 <th tal:content="string:Date: ${msg/date}">date</th>
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1983 </tr>
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1984 <tr>
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1985 <td colspan="3" class="content">
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1986 <pre tal:content="msg/content">content</pre>
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1987 </td>
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1988 </tr>
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1989 </tal:block>
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1990 </table>
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1991
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1992 Restricting the list of users that are assignable to a task
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1993 -----------------------------------------------------------
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1994
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1995 1. In your tracker's "dbinit.py", create a new Role, say "Developer"::
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1996
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1997 db.security.addRole(name='Developer', description='A developer')
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1998
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1999 2. Just after that, create a new Permission, say "Fixer", specific to "issue"::
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2000
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2001 p = db.security.addPermission(name='Fixer', klass='issue',
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2002 description='User is allowed to be assigned to fix issues')
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2003
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2004 3. Then assign the new Permission to your "Developer" Role::
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2005
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2006 db.security.addPermissionToRole('Developer', p)
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2007
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2008 4. In the issue item edit page ("html/issue.item" in your tracker dir), use
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2009 the new Permission in restricting the "assignedto" list::
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2011 <select name="assignedto">
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2012 <option value="-1">- no selection -</option>
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2013 <tal:block tal:repeat="user db/user/list">
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2014 <option tal:condition="python:user.hasPermission('Fixer', context.classname)"
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2015 tal:attributes="value user/id;
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2016 selected python:user.id == context.assignedto"
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2017 tal:content="user/realname"></option>
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2018 </tal:block>
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2019 </select>
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2020
1149
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2021 For extra security, you may wish to set up an auditor to enforce the
1150
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2022 Permission requirement (install this as "assignedtoFixer.py" in your tracker
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2023 "detectors" directory)::
1147
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2024
1149
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2025 def assignedtoMustBeFixer(db, cl, nodeid, newvalues):
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2026 ''' Ensure the assignedto value in newvalues is a used with the Fixer
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2027 Permission
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diff changeset
2028 '''
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2029 if not newvalues.has_key('assignedto'):
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2030 # don't care
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2031 return
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2032
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2033 # get the userid
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2034 userid = newvalues['assignedto']
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2035 if not db.security.hasPermission('Fixer', userid, cl.classname):
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2036 raise ValueError, 'You do not have permission to edit %s'%cl.classname
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2037
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2038 def init(db):
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2039 db.issue.audit('set', assignedtoMustBeFixer)
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diff changeset
2040 db.issue.audit('create', assignedtoMustBeFixer)
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2041
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2042 So now, if the edit attempts to set the assignedto to a user that doesn't have
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diff changeset
2043 the "Fixer" Permission, the error will be raised.
1147
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2044
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2045
1151
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2046 Setting up a "wizard" (or "druid") for controlled adding of issues
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2047 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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2048
1154
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2049 1. Set up the page templates you wish to use for data input. My wizard
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parents: 1151
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2050 is going to be a two-step process, first figuring out what category of
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2051 issue the user is submitting, and then getting details specific to that
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2052 category. The first page includes a table of help, explaining what the
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2053 category names mean, and then the core of the form::
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2054
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2055 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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2056 enctype="multipart/form-data">
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2057 <input type="hidden" name=":template" value="add_page1">
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2058 <input type="hidden" name=":action" value="page1submit">
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2059
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2060 <strong>Category:</strong>
1156
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diff changeset
2061 <tal:block tal:replace="structure context/category/menu" />
1154
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2062 <input type="submit" value="Continue">
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2063 </form>
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2064
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2065 The next page has the usual issue entry information, with the addition of
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diff changeset
2066 the following form fragments::
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2067
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2068 <form method="POST" onSubmit="return submit_once()"
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diff changeset
2069 enctype="multipart/form-data" tal:condition="context/is_edit_ok"
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parents: 1151
diff changeset
2070 tal:define="cat request/form/category/value">
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diff changeset
2071
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diff changeset
2072 <input type="hidden" name=":template" value="add_page2">
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diff changeset
2073 <input type="hidden" name=":required" value="title">
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diff changeset
2074 <input type="hidden" name="category" tal:attributes="value cat">
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2075
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diff changeset
2076 .
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diff changeset
2077 .
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diff changeset
2078 .
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2079 </form>
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2080
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diff changeset
2081 Note that later in the form, I test the value of "cat" include form
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diff changeset
2082 elements that are appropriate. For example::
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2083
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2084 <tal:block tal:condition="python:cat in '6 10 13 14 15 16 17'.split()">
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2085 <tr>
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2086 <th nowrap>Operating System</th>
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2087 <td tal:content="structure context/os/field"></td>
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2088 </tr>
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2089 <tr>
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2090 <th nowrap>Web Browser</th>
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2091 <td tal:content="structure context/browser/field"></td>
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2092 </tr>
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2093 </tal:block>
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2094
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2095 ... the above section will only be displayed if the category is one of 6,
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2096 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17.
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2097
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2098 3. Determine what actions need to be taken between the pages - these are
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parents: 1151
diff changeset
2099 usually to validate user choices and determine what page is next. Now
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2100 encode those actions in methods on the interfaces Client class and insert
1151
7e0024954954 making it easier to add new actions, and more docco
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2101 hooks to those actions in the "actions" attribute on that class, like so::
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2102
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2103 actions = client.Class.actions + (
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2104 ('page1_submit', page1SubmitAction),
7e0024954954 making it easier to add new actions, and more docco
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2105 )
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2106
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2107 def page1SubmitAction(self):
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2108 ''' Verify that the user has selected a category, and then move on
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2109 to page 2.
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2110 '''
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2111 category = self.form['category'].value
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2112 if category == '-1':
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2113 self.error_message.append('You must select a category of report')
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2114 return
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2115 # everything's ok, move on to the next page
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2116 self.template = 'add_page2'
1151
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2117
1164
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2118 4. Use the usual "new" action as the :action on the final page, and you're
1154
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2119 done (the standard context/submit method can do this for you).
1151
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2120
1236
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2121
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2122 Using an external password validation source
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diff changeset
2123 --------------------------------------------
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2124
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2125 We have a centrally-managed password changing system for our users. This
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2126 results in a UN*X passwd-style file that we use for verification of users.
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2127 Entries in the file consist of ``name:password`` where the password is
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2128 encrypted using the standard UN*X ``crypt()`` function (see the ``crypt``
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2129 module in your Python distribution). An example entry would be::
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2130
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2131 admin:aamrgyQfDFSHw
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2132
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2133 Each user of Roundup must still have their information stored in the Roundup
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2134 database - we just use the passwd file to check their password. To do this, we
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2135 add the following code to our ``Client`` class in the tracker home
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2136 ``interfaces.py`` module::
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2137
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2138 def verifyPassword(self, userid, password):
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2139 # get the user's username
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2140 username = self.db.user.get(userid, 'username')
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2141
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2142 # the passwords are stored in the "passwd.txt" file in the tracker
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2143 # home
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2144 file = os.path.join(self.db.config.TRACKER_HOME, 'passwd.txt')
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2145
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2146 # see if we can find a match
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2147 for ent in [line.strip().split(':') for line in open(file).readlines()]:
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2148 if ent[0] == username:
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2149 return crypt.crypt(password, ent[1][:2]) == ent[1]
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2150
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2151 # user doesn't exist in the file
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2152 return 0
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2153
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diff changeset
2154 What this does is look through the file, line by line, looking for a name that
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2155 matches.
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2156
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2157 We also remove the redundant password fields from the ``user.item`` template.
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2158
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2159
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2160 -------------------
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2161
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2162 Back to `Table of Contents`_
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2163
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2164 .. _`Table of Contents`: index.html
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