Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-advanced.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-advanced.html,v diff -u -r1.1.2.2 -r1.1.2.3 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-advanced.html 7 Apr 2003 16:59:26 -0000 1.1.2.2 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-advanced.html 15 Apr 2003 17:03:03 -0000 1.1.2.3 @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ -Advanced Topics

Advanced Topics

Important

This section is a work in progress.

+Advanced Topics

Advanced Topics

Important

This section is a work in progress.

by Joel Aufrecht
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, but may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff. -

Overview

This tutorial covers topics which are not essential to +

Overview

This tutorial covers topics which are not essential to creating a minimal working package. Each section can be used independently of all of the others; all sections assume that you've completed the basic tutorial.

  • How to enforce security so that users can't change other users records

  • How to use the content management tables so that ... what?

  • How to change the default stylesheets for Form Builder HTML forms.

  • How to make your package searchable with OpenFTS/Oracle

  • How to make your package send email notifications

  • How to prepare pagelets for inclusion in other pages

  • How and when to put procedures in a tcl procedure library

  • How to add general_comments to your pages

  • More on ad_form - data validation, other stuff. (plan to draw from Jon Griffin's doc)

  • How and when to implement caching

  • partialquery in xql

  • How to use the html/text entry widget to get the - "does this look right" confirm page

  • APM package dependencies

Delete with confirmation

We need a way to delete records. We'll create a + "does this look right" confirm page

  • APM package dependencies

  • Delete with confirmation

    We need a way to delete records. We'll create a recursive confirmation page.

    Add this column to the table_def in index.tcl

    {delete "" {} {<td><a href="note-delete?note_id=$note_id">Delete</a></td>}}

    Create the delete confirmation/execution page.

    [service0@yourserver www]$ emacs note-delete.tcl
    ad_page_contract {
         A page that gets confirmation and then delete notes.
     
    @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     <formtemplate id="note-del-confirm"></formtemplate>
     </form>

    The ADP is very simple. The formtemplate tag outputs the HTML -form generated by the ad_form command with the matching name. Test it by adding the new files in the APM and then deleting a few samplenotes.

    General_comments

    You can track comments for any ACS Object. Here we'll track +form generated by the ad_form command with the matching name. Test it by adding the new files in the APM and then deleting a few samplenotes.

    General_comments

    You can track comments for any ACS Object. Here we'll track comments for notes. On the notes.tcl/adp pair, which is used to display individual notes, we want to put a link to add comments at the bottom of the screen. If there are any comments, we want to @@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ there are comments. Then you pass the note id, which is also the acs_object id.

    We put our two new variables in the notes.adp page.

    <a href="@comment_add_url@">Add a comment</a>
    -@comments_html@

    Prepare the package for distribution.

    Browse to the package manager. Click on +@comments_html@

    Prepare the package for distribution.

    Browse to the package manager. Click on tutorialapp.

    Click on Generate a distribution file for this package from the filesystem.

    Click on the file size (37.1KB) after the label Distribution File: and save the file to - /tmp.

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