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Dive into Lino

After having successfully installed at least a developer environment (Get started), we are ready to dive into Lino.

The vital basics

• About database models
• Introduction to data views
• Introduction to layouts
• Introduction to actions
• Introduction to plugins
• The application menu
• Vital basics in a nutshell

More basics

• The main page
• Introduction to choicelists
• More about slave tables
• More about layouts
• Writing Python fixtures
• User management à la Lino
• User sessions
• Quantities
• How plugins build the application menu
• More about front ends
• More about the Site class

Customize things

• Introduction to permissions
  • User roles
  • User types
  • Relation between user roles and user types
  • Accessing permissions from within your code
  • Defining required roles
  • Local customizations
  • The user types module
  • Permission debug messages
• About CRUD operations
• Customizing how data is created
  • Model.on_create()
  • Model.after_ui_create()
  • Model.submit_insert
  • Model.create_from_choice()
  • Model.choice_text_to_dict()
  • lino.core.actors.Actor.get_create_permission()
• Customizing how data is searched
  • Excluding a database model from site-wide searches
  • Customizing where quick search should search
• Customize how data is formatted
  • Model.__str__()
  • Model.get_overview_elems()
  • Model.obj2href()
  • Model.as_summary_row()
  • Model.summary_row()
  • Model.set_widget_options()
  • Customize how to represent a row in a list
  • Customize the title of an actor
  • Customize actor methods and attributes
  • React-specific actor attributes
  • Showing, hiding and formatting sums
• Disable elements of the user interface
  • Disable individual fields
  • Disable actions
  • Disable editing of a whole table
  • Disable editing of a whole table
  • How to remove the navigation buttons
  • Actors with a modified toolbar
• Hiding individual fields
• Duplicating database objects
  • Model.on_duplicate()
  • Model.after_duplicate()
  • Model.delete_veto_message()
  • Model.allow_cascaded_copy
• Customizing how data is merged
  • MergeAction
  • Model.merge_row
• Customizing how data is updated
  • Model.before_ui_save()
  • Model.after_ui_save()
  • Model.update_owned_instance()
  • Model.after_update_owned_instance()
• Customize delete behaviour
  • The disable_delete method
  • About cascaded deletes
  • Removing the delete button altogether

Widgets

• Introduction to Combo boxes
• Text fields
• More chooser examples
• How to define a learning foreign key
• Introduction to Workflows
• Radio buttons
• About virtual fields
• Table summaries
• Virtual tables

More tutorials

• Screen casts
• The Lino Polls tutorial