Diving into Lino

Until now we deliberately remained outside of the real code because first things first. But now you hopefully feel confident in your developer environment and with running demo projects. We are ready to dive into Lino.

The vital basics

• Introducing the Site class
• About database models
• Introduction to data views
• Introduction to layouts
• More about layouts
• Introduction to actions
• Introduction to plugins
• The application menu
• Lino in a nutshell

More basics

• The main page
• Introduction to choicelists
• Slave tables
• The initdb command
• Writing Python fixtures
• User management à la Lino
• User sessions
• Quantities
• The XL and application menus
• More about front ends

Customizing 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
• Customizing how data is searched
  • Excluding a database model from site-wide searches
  • Customizing where quick search should search
• Customizing how data is formatted
  • Customizing 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
• Customizing how data is merged
• Customizing how data is updated
• Customize delete behaviour
  • The disable_delete method
  • About cascaded deletes
  • Removing the delete button altogether

Widgets

• Introduction to Combo boxes
• Text fields
• Choosers that need the requesting user
• How to define a learning foreign key
• Introduction to Workflows
• Radio buttons
• About virtual fields
• Table summaries
• Virtual tables

More practical

• Screen casts
• The Lino Polls tutorial