The View system

This chapter aims to describe the concept of a view used all along the development of a web application and how it has been implemented in CubicWeb.

• Principles
  • Discovering possible views
  • Basic class for views
    • Class View
    • Other basic view classes
    • Examples of views class
  • XML views, binaries views…
• Templates
  • Non-templatable views
  • Templatable views
    • TheMainTemplate
    • Other templates
• The Primary View
  • Layout
  • Primary view configuration
    • Attributes/relations display location
    • Display content
  • Example of customization and creation
• The “Click and Edit” (also reledit) View
  • Using reledit
  • The reledit_ctrl rtag
  • Disable reledit
• Base views
  • HTML views
    • Special views
    • Base entity views
    • List entity views
  • Text entity views
  • Pagination
  • Previous / next navigation
• Startup views
• Boxes
  • The action box
• Table views
  • Example
  • Pro/cons of each approach
• XML and RSS views
  • Overview
  • RSS Channel Example
• URL publishing
• URL rewriting
• Breadcrumbs
  • Display
  • Building breadcrumbs
• The ‘download’ views
  • Specific views for entities adapting to IDownloadable
  • Components
  • Download views
  • Embedded views
• Online documentation system
  • Help views
  • Actions