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Dive into Lino

After having successfully installed your developer environment, we are now ready to dive into Lino.

The vital basics

• Introduction to database models
• Introduction to tables
• Introduction to layouts
• Introduction to actions
• Introduction to demo fixtures
• Introduction to choicelists
• Introduction to user management
• Introduction to permissions
• Vital basics in a nutshell

More basics

• Introduction to the Site class
• Introduction to choosers
• More about plugins
• More about the main page
• More about the application menu
• More about slave tables
• More about layouts
• More about display modes
• Writing Python fixtures
• User sessions
• More about combo boxes
• How plugins build the application menu
• More about front ends
• Quantities
• Introduction to multilingual database content

Customize things

• Write custom actions
• Customize how data is created
• Customize how data is searched
• How to represent a database row
• Disable elements of the user interface
• Hide individual fields
• Cloning (duplicating) database objects
• Customize how data is merged
• Customize how data is updated
• Customize delete behaviour

Widgets

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

More tutorials

• Screen casts
• The LETS tutorial