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Building my photos web site with |cubicweb| part V: let's make it even more user friendly
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We'll now see how to benefit from features introduced in 3.9 and 3.10 releases of cubicweb
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Step 1: Tired of the default look?
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Ok... Now our site has most desired features. But... I would like to make it look
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somewhat like *my* website, That's not cubicweb.org after all. Let's tackle this
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first!
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The first thing we can to is to change the logo. There are various way to achieve
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this. The easiest way is to put a `logo.png` file into the cube's `data`
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directory. As data files are looked at according to cubes order (cubicweb
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resources coming last). The first one being picked, the file will be selected
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instead of cubicweb's one.
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.. Note::
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   As the location for static resources are cached, you'll have to restart
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   your instance for this to be taken into account.
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Though there are some cases where you don't want to use a `logo.png` file.  For
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instance if it's a JPEG file. You can still change the logo by defining in the
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cube's `:file:`uiprops.py`` file:
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.. sourcecode:: python
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   LOGO = data('logo.jpg')
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The uiprops machinery has been introduced in `CubicWeb 3.9`_. It's used to define
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some static file resources, such as the logo, default javascript / CSS files, as
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well as CSS properties (we'll see that later).
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.. Note::
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   This file is imported specifically by |cubicweb|, with a predefined name space,
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   containing for instance the `data` function, telling the file is somewhere
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   in a cube or cubicweb's data directory.
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   One side effect of this is that it can't be imported as a regular python
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   module.
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The nice thing is that in debug mode, change to a :file:`uiprops.py` file are detected
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and then automatically reloaded.
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Now, as it's a photos web-site, I would like to have a photo of mine as background...
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After some trials I won't detail here, I've found a working recipe explained `here`_.
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All I've to do is to override some stuff of the default cubicweb user interface to
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apply it as explained.
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The first thing to to get the "<img/>" tag as first element after the "<body>"
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tag.  If you know a way to avoid this by simply specifying the image in the CSS,
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tell me!  The easiest way to do so is to override the `HTMLPageHeader` view,
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since that's the one that is directly called once the "<body>" has been written
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. How did I find this?  By looking in the `cubiweb.web.views.basetemplates`
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module, since I know that global page layouts sits there. I could also have
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grep the "body" tag in `cubicweb.web.views`... Finding this was the hardest
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part. Now all I need is to customize it to write that "img" tag, as below:
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.. sourcecode:: python
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    class HTMLPageHeader(basetemplates.HTMLPageHeader):
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	# override this since it's the easier way to have our bg image
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	# as the first element following <body>
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	def call(self, **kwargs):
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            self.w(u'<img id="bg-image" src="%sbackground.jpg" alt="background image"/>'
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                   % self._cw.datadir_url)
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	    super(HTMLPageHeader, self).call(**kwargs)
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    def registration_callback(vreg):
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	vreg.register_all(globals().values(), __name__, (HTMLPageHeader))
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	vreg.register_and_replace(HTMLPageHeader, basetemplates.HTMLPageHeader)
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Besides that, as you may I've guess, my background image is in a `backgroundjpg`
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file in the cube's `data` directory, there are still some things to explain to
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newcomers here though.
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* The `call` method is there the main access point of the view. It's called by
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  the view's `render` method. That's not the onlyu access point for a view, but
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  that will be detailed later.
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* Calling `self.w` write something to the output stream. Except for binary view
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  (not generating text), it *must* be an Unicode string.
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* The proper way to get a file in `data` directory is to use the `datadir_url`
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  attribute of the incoming request (e.g. `self._cw`).
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I won't explain again the `registration_callback` stuff, you should understand it
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know!  If not, go back to previous posts in the series :)
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Fine. Now all I've to do is to add a bit of CSS to get it behaves nicely (that's
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not yet the case at all). I'll put all this in a `cubes.sytweb.css` file, as usual
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in our `data` directory:
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    /* fixed full screen background image
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     * as explained on http://webdesign.about.com/od/css3/f/blfaqbgsize.htm
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     *
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     * syt update: set z-index=0 on the img instead of z-index=1 on div#page & co to
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     * avoid pb with the user actions menu
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     */
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    img#bg-image {
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	position: fixed;
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	top: 0;
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	height: 100%;
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    }
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    div#page, table#header, div#footer {
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	background: transparent;
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	position: relative;
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    }
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    /* add some space around the logo
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     */
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    img#logo {
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	padding: 5px 15px 0px 15px;
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    /* more dark font for metadata to have a chance to see them with the background
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     *  image
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     */
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    div.metadata {
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	color: black;
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You can see here stuff explained in the cited page, with only a slight modification
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explained in the comments, plus some additional rules to make thing somewhat cleaner:
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* a bit of padding around the logo
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* darker metadata which appears by default below the content (the white frame in the page)
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To get this CSS file used everywhere in the site, I've to modify the :file:`uiprops.py` file
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we've encountered above:
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   STYLESHEETS = sheet['STYLESHEETS'] + [data('cubes.sytweb.css')]
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.. Note:
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   `sheet` is another predefined variable containing values defined by
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   already process `:file:`uiprops.py`` file, notably the cubicweb's one.
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Here we simply want our CSS additionally to cubicweb's base CSS files, so we
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redefine the `STYLESHEETS` variable to existing CSS (accessed through the `sheet`
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variable) with our one added. I could also have done:
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   sheet['STYLESHEETS'].append(data('cubes.sytweb.css'))
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But this is less interesting since we don't see the overriding mechanism...
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At this point, the site should start looking good, the background image being
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resized to fit the screen.
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.. image:: ../../images/tutos-photowebsite_background-image.png
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The final touch: let's customize cubicweb's CSS to get less orange... By simply adding
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  contextualBoxTitleBg = incontextBoxTitleBg = '#AAAAAA'
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and reloading the page we've just seen, we know have a nice greyed box instead of
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the orange one:
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.. image:: ../../images/tutos-photowebsite_grey-box.png
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This is because cubicweb's CSS include some variables which are
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expanded by values defined in uiprops file. In our case we controlled the
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properties of the CSS `background` property of boxes with CSS class
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`contextualBoxTitleBg` and `incontextBoxTitleBg`.
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Step 2: configuring boxes
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Boxes present to the user some ways to use the application. Lets first do a few tweaks:
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  from cubicweb.selectors import none_rset
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  from cubicweb.web.views import bookmark
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  from cubes.zone import views as zone
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  from cubes.tag import views as tag
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gro  bookmark.BookmarksBox.__select__ = bookmark.BookmarksBox.__select__ & none_rset()
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  zone.ZoneBox.context = 'left'
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  zone.ZoneBox.order = 100
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  # move tags box to the left instead of in the context frame and tweak its order
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  tag.TagsBox.context = 'left'
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  tag.TagsBox.order = 102
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  # hide similarity box, not interested
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  tag.SimilarityBox.visible = False
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The idea is to move all boxes in the left column, so we get more spaces for the
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photos.  Now, serious things: I want a box similar as the tags box but to handle
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the `Person displayed_on File` relation. We can do this simply by configuring a
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:class:`AjaxEditRelationCtxComponent` subclass as below:
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.. sourcecode:: python
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    from logilab.common.decorators import monkeypatch
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    from cubicweb import ValidationError
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    from cubicweb.web import uicfg, component
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    from cubicweb.web.views import basecontrollers
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    # hide displayed_on relation using uicfg since it will be displayed by the box below
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    uicfg.primaryview_section.tag_object_of(('*', 'displayed_on', '*'), 'hidden')
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    class PersonBox(component.AjaxEditRelationCtxComponent):
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	__regid__ = 'sytweb.displayed-on-box'
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	# box position
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	order = 101
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	context = 'left'
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	# define relation to be handled
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	rtype = 'displayed_on'
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	role = 'object'
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	target_etype = 'Person'
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	# messages
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	added_msg = _('person has been added')
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	removed_msg = _('person has been removed')
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	# bind to js_* methods of the json controller
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	fname_vocabulary = 'unrelated_persons'
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	fname_validate = 'link_to_person'
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	fname_remove = 'unlink_person'
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    @monkeypatch(basecontrollers.JSonController)
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    @basecontrollers.jsonize
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    def js_unrelated_persons(self, eid):
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	"""return tag unrelated to an entity"""
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	rql = "Any F + ' ' + S WHERE P surname S, P firstname F, X eid %(x)s, NOT P displayed_on X"
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	return [name for (name,) in self._cw.execute(rql, {'x' : eid})]
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    @monkeypatch(basecontrollers.JSonController)
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    def js_link_to_person(self, eid, people):
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	req = self._cw
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	for name in people:
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	    name = name.strip().title()
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	    if not name:
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		continue
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	    try:
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		firstname, surname = name.split(None, 1)
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	    except:
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		raise ValidationError(eid, {('displayed_on', 'object'): 'provide <first name> <surname>'})
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	    rset = req.execute('Person P WHERE '
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			       'P firstname %(firstname)s, P surname %(surname)s',
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			       locals())
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	    if rset:
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		person = rset.get_entity(0, 0)
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	    else:
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		person = req.create_entity('Person', firstname=firstname,
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						surname=surname)
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	    req.execute('SET P displayed_on X WHERE '
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			'P eid %(p)s, X eid %(x)s, NOT P displayed_on X',
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			{'p': person.eid, 'x' : eid})
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    @monkeypatch(basecontrollers.JSonController)
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    def js_unlink_person(self, eid, personeid):
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	self._cw.execute('DELETE P displayed_on X WHERE P eid %(p)s, X eid %(x)s',
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			 {'p': personeid, 'x': eid})
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You basically subclass to configure by some class attributes. The `fname_*`
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attributes gives name of methods that should be defined on the json control to
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make the AJAX part of the widget working: one to get the vocabulary, one to add a
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relation and another to delete a relation. Those methods must start by a `ks_`
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prefix and are added to the controller using the `@monkeypatch` decorator.Here
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the most complicated is the one to add a relation, since it tries to see if the
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person already exists, and else automatically create it by supposing the user
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entered "firstname surname".
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Let's see how it looks like on a file primary view:
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.. image:: ../../images/tutos-photowebsite_boxes.png
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Great, it's now as easy for me to link my pictures to people than to tag them.
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Also, visitors get a consistent display of those two informations.
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.. note:
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  The ui component system has been refactored in `CubicWeb 3.10`_, which also
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  introduced the :class:`AjaxEditRelationCtxComponent` class.
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The last feature we'll add today is facet configuration. If you access to the
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'/file' url, you'll see a set of 'facet' appearing in the left column. Facets
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provide an intuitive way to build a query incrementally, by proposing to the user
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various way to restrict result set. For instance cubicweb propose a facet to
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restrict according to who's created an entity; the tag cube a facet to restrict
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according to tags. I want to propose similarly a facet to restrict according to
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people displayed on the picture. To do so, there are various classes in the
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:mod:`cubicweb.web.facet` module which you've simple to configure using class
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attributes as we've done for the box. In our case, we'll define a subclass of
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:class:`RelationFacet`:
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.. sourcecode:: python
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    from cubicweb.web import facet
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    class DisplayedOnFacet(facet.RelationFacet):
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	__regid__ = 'displayed_on-facet'
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	# relation to be displayed
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	rtype = 'displayed_on'
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	role = 'object'
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	# view to use to display persons
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	label_vid = 'combobox'
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Let's say we also want a filter according to the `visibility` attribute. this is
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even more simple, by inheriting from the :class:`AttributeFacet` class:
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.. sourcecode:: python
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    class VisibilityFacet(facet.AttributeFacet):
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	__regid__ = 'visibility-facet'
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	rtype = 'visibility'
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Now if I search some pictures on my site, I get the following facets available:
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.. image:: ../../images/tutos-photowebsite_facets.png
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.. Note:
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  Facets which have no choice to propose (i.e. one or less elements of
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  vocabulary) are not displayed. That's may be why you don't see yours.
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Conclusion
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We started to see the power behind the infrastructure provided by the
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framework. Both on the pure ui (CSS, javascript) stuff as on the python side
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(high level generic classes for components, including boxes and facets). We now
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have, by a few lines of code, a full-featured web site with a personnalized look.
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Of course we'll probably want more as the time goes, but we can now start
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concentrate on making good pictures, publishing albums and sharing them with
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friends...
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.. _`CubicWeb 3.10`: https://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/1330518
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.. _`CubicWeb 3.9`: http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/1179899
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.. _`here`: http://webdesign.about.com/od/css3/f/blfaqbgsize.htm