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Glossary

active fields

See dd.Model.active_fields.

CSC

Context-sensitive ComboBox. See lino.utils.choices.

data migration

Data Migration is when your database needs to be converted after an upgrade to a newer Lino version. See Upgrading a production site.

See DavLink

disabled fields

Fields that the user cannot edit (read-only fields).

DSBE

"Dienst für Sozial-Berufliche Eingliederung" A public service in Eupen (Belgium), the first real user of a Lino application lino.projects.pcsw.

dummy module

See lino.core.dbutils.resolve_app().

dump

"To dump" means to write the content of a database into a text file. This is used to backup data and for Data Migration.

field lookups

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/db/queries/#field-lookups

GC

Grid Configuration. See 2010-08-09,...

GFK

Generic ForeignKey. This is a ForeignKey that can point to different tables.

initdb

See initdb.

initdb_tim

See lino.projects.pcsw.management.commands.initdb_tim

jana

An internal virtual Debian server on our LAN used for testing.

loaddata

One of Django's standard django-admin commands. See Django docs.

makedocs

A Lino-specific django-admin command that writes a Sphinx documentation tree about the models installed on this site. lino.management.commands.makedocs

makeui

A Lino-specific django-admin command that writes local files needed for the front end. See Lino and Qooxdoo.

minimal application

See The Lino Minimal projects

mod_wsgi

Set up a Lino production server

mops

The machine that is serving the saffre-rumma.net domain.

table

See table view.

testing

The version that is currently being tested.

tups

The machine that served the saffre-rumma.net domain until 2010 when it was replaced by mops.

watch_calendars

A daemon process that synchronizes remote calendars into the Lino database. See lino_xl.lib.cal.management.commands.watch_calendars

watch_tim

A daemon process that synchronizes data from TIM to Lino. See lino_welfare.modlib.pcsw.management.commands.watch_tim