doc/book/en/MERGE_ME-tut-create-app.en.txt
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.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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Tutoriel : créer votre première application web pour Google AppEngine
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=====================================================================
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[TRANSLATE ME TO FRENCH]
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This tutorial will guide you step by step to build a blog application 
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and discover the unique features of `LAX`. It assumes that you followed
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the :ref:`installation` guidelines and that both the `AppEngine SDK` and the
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`LAX` framework are setup on your computer.
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Creating a new application
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We choosed in this tutorial to develop a blog as an example of web application
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and will go through each required steps/actions to have it running with `LAX`.
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When you installed `LAX`, you saw a directory named ``skel``. Make a copy of
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this directory and call it ``BlogDemo``.
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The location of this directory does not matter. But once decided, make sure your ``PYTHONPATH`` is properly set (:ref:`installation`).
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Defining a schema
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With `LAX`, the schema/datamodel is the core of the application. This is where
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you will define the type of content you have to hanlde in your application.
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Let us start with something simple and improve on it iteratively. 
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In schema.py, we define two entities: ``Blog`` and ``BlogEntry``.
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  class Blog(EntityType):
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      title = String(maxsize=50, required=True)
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      description = String()
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  class BlogEntry(EntityType):
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      title = String(maxsize=100, required=True)
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      publish_date = Date(default='TODAY')
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      text = String(fulltextindexed=True)
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      category = String(vocabulary=('important','business'))
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      entry_of = SubjectRelation('Blog', cardinality='?*')
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A Blog has a title and a description. The title is a string that is
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required by the class EntityType and must be less than 50 characters. 
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The description is a string that is not constrained.
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A BlogEntry has a title, a publish_date and a text. The title is a
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string that is required and must be less than 100 characters. The
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publish_date is a Date with a default value of TODAY, meaning that
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when a BlogEntry is created, its publish_date will be the current day
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unless it is modified. The text is a string that will be indexed in
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the full-text index and has no constraint.
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A BlogEntry also has a relationship ``entry_of`` that link it to a
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Blog. The cardinality ``?*`` means that a BlogEntry can be part of
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zero or one Blog (``?`` means `zero or one`) and that a Blog can
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have any number of BlogEntry (``*`` means `any number including
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zero`). For completeness, remember that ``+`` means `one or more`.
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Running the application
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Defining this simple schema is enough to get us started. Make sure you
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followed the setup steps described in detail in the installation
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chapter (especially visiting http://localhost:8080/_load as an
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administrator), then launch the application with the command::
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   python dev_appserver.py BlogDemo
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and point your browser at http://localhost:8080/ (if it is easier for
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you, use the on-line demo at http://lax.appspot.com/).
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.. image:: images/lax-book.00-login.en.png
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   :alt: login screen
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After you log in, you will see the home page of your application. It
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lists the entity types: Blog and BlogEntry. If these links read
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``blog_plural`` and ``blogentry_plural`` it is because
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internationalization (i18n) is not working for you yet. Please ignore
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this for now.
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.. image:: images/lax-book.01-start.en.png
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   :alt: home page
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Creating system entities
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You can only create new users if you decided not to use google authentication.
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[WRITE ME : create users manages permissions etc]
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Creating application entites
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Create a Blog
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Let us create a few of these entities. Click on the [+] at the right
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of the link Blog.  Call this new Blog ``Tech-blog`` and type in
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``everything about technology`` as the description, then validate the
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form by clicking on ``Validate``.
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.. image:: images/lax-book.02-create-blog.en.png
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   :alt: from to create blog
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Click on the logo at top left to get back to the home page, then
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follow the Blog link that will list for you all the existing Blog.
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You should be seeing a list with a single item ``Tech-blog`` you
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just created.
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   :alt: displaying a list of a single blog
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Clicking on this item will get you to its detailed description except
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that in this case, there is not much to display besides the name and
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the phrase ``everything about technology``.
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  :alt: displaying the detailed view of a blog
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Now get back to the home page by clicking on the top-left logo, then
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create a new Blog called ``MyLife`` and get back to the home page
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again to follow the Blog link for the second time. The list now
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has two items.
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   :alt: displaying a list of two blogs
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Create a BlogEntry
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Get back to the home page and click on [+] at the right of the link
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BlogEntry. Call this new entry ``Hello World`` and type in some text
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before clicking on ``Validate``. You added a new blog entry without
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saying to what blog it belongs. There is a box on the left entitled
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``actions``, click on the menu item ``modify``. You are back to the form
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to edit the blog entry you just created, except that the form now has
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another section with a combobox titled ``add relation``. Chose
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``entry_of`` in this menu and a second combobox appears where you pick
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``MyLife``. 
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You could also have, at the time you started to fill the form for a
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new entity BlogEntry, hit ``Apply`` instead of ``Validate`` and the 
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combobox titled ``add relation`` would have showed up.
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.. image:: images/lax-book.06-add-relation-entryof.en.png
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   :alt: editing a blog entry to add a relation to a blog
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Validate the changes by clicking ``Validate``. The entity BlogEntry
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that is displayed now includes a link to the entity Blog named
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``MyLife``.
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.. image:: images/lax-book.07-detail-one-blogentry.en.png
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   :alt: displaying the detailed view of a blogentry
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Remember that all of this was handled by the framework and that the
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only input that was provided so far is the schema. To get a graphical
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view of the schema, run the ``laxctl genschema BlogDemo`` command as
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explained in the installation section and point your browser to the
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URL http://localhost:8080/schema
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.. image:: images/lax-book.08-schema.en.png
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   :alt: graphical view of the schema (aka data-model)
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Site configuration
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.. image:: images/lax-book.03-site-config-panel.en.png
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This panel allows you to configure the appearance of your application site.
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Six menus are available and we will go through each of them to explain how
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to use them.
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This menu provides you a way to adjust some navigation options depending on
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Follows the detailled list of available options:
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* navigation.combobox-limit: maximum number of entities to display in related
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  combo box (sample format: 23)
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* navigation.page-size: maximum number of objects displayed by page of results 
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* navigation.related-limit: maximum number of related entities to display in 
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  the primary view (sample format: 23)
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* navigation.short-line-size: maximum number of characters in short description
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This menu provides you a way to customize the user interface settings such as
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Follows the detailled list of available options:
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* ui.date-format : how to format date in the ui ("man strftime" for format description)
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* ui.datetime-format : how to format date and time in the ui ("man strftime" for format
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  description)
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* ui.default-text-format : default text format for rich text fields.
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* ui.encoding : user interface encoding
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* ui.fckeditor : should html fields being edited using fckeditor (a HTML WYSIWYG editor).
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  You should also select text/html as default text format to actually get fckeditor.
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* ui.float-format : how to format float numbers in the ui
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* ui.language : language of the user interface
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* ui.main-template : id of main template used to render pages
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* ui.site-title	: site title, which is displayed right next to the logo in the header
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* ui.time-format : how to format time in the ui ("man strftime" for format description)
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This menu provides a way to configure the context in which you expect the actions
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to be displayed to the user and if you want the action to be visible or not. 
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available on the left column which display some actions as well as a drop-down 
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menu for more actions. 
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* mainactions : actions listed in the left box
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* moreactions : actions listed in the `more` menu of the left box
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* addrelated : add actions listed in the left box
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* useractions : actions listed in the first section of drop-down menu 
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* siteactions : actions listed in the second section of drop-down menu
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* hidden : select this to hide the specific action
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The application has already a pre-defined set of boxes you can use right away. 
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This configuration section allows you to place those boxes where you want in the
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application interface to customize it. 
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* actions box : box listing the applicable actions on the displayed data
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* boxes_blog_archives_box : box listing the blog archives 
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* possible views box : box listing the possible views for the displayed data
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* rss box : RSS icon to get displayed data as a RSS thread
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* search box : search box
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* startup views box : box listing the configuration options available for 
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  the application site, such as `Preferences` and `Site Configuration`
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[WRITE ME]
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[WRITE ME]
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Before starting, make sure you refresh your mind by reading [link to
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We want to create a workflow to control the quality of the BlogEntry 
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submitted on your application. When a BlogEntry is created by a user
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its state should be `submitted`. To be visible to all, it needs to
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be in the state `published`. To move from `submitted` to `published`
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we need a transition that we can name `approve_blogentry`.
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We do not want every user to be allowed to change the state of a 
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BlogEntry. We need to define a group of user, `moderators`, and 
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this group will have appropriate permissions to approve BlogEntry
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to be published and visible to all.
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There are two ways to create a workflow, form the user interface,
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and also by defining it in ``migration/postcreate.py``. This script
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is executed each time a new ``./bin/laxctl db-init`` is done. 
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If you create the states and transitions through the user interface
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this means that next time you will need to initialize the database
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you will have to re-create all the entities. 
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We strongly recommand you create the workflow in ``migration\postcreate.py``
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and we will now show you how.
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The user interface would only be a reference for you to view the states 
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and transitions but is not the appropriate interface to define your
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application workflow.
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Update the schema
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To enable a BlogEntry to have a State, we have to define a relation
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``in_state`` in the schema of BlogEntry. Please do as follows, add
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the line ``in_state (...)``::
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  class BlogEntry(EntityType):
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      title = String(maxsize=100, required=True)
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      publish_date = Date(default='TODAY')
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      text_format = String(meta=True, internationalizable=True, maxsize=50,
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                           default='text/rest', constraints=[format_constraint])
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      text = String(fulltextindexed=True)
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      category = String(vocabulary=('important','business'))
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      entry_of = SubjectRelation('Blog', cardinality='?*')
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      in_state = SubjectRelation('State', cardinality='1*')
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As you updated the schema, you will have re-execute ``./bin/laxctl db-init``
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to initialize the database and migrate your existing entities.
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[WRITE ABOUT MIGRATION]
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Create states, transitions and group permissions
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At the time the ``postcreate.py`` script is executed, several methods
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can be used. They are all defined in the ``class ServerMigrationHelper``.
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We will only discuss the method we use to create a wrokflow here.
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To define our workflow for BlogDemo, please add the following lines
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to ``migration/postcreate.py``::
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  _ = unicode
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  moderators      = add_entity('CWGroup', name=u"moderators")
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  submitted = add_state(_('submitted'), 'BlogEntry', initial=True)
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  published = add_state(_('published'), 'BlogEntry')
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  add_transition(_('approve_blogentry'), 'BlogEntry', (submitted,), published, ('moderators', 'managers'),)
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  checkpoint()
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``add_entity`` is used here to define the new group of users that we
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need to define the transitions, `moderators`.
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If this group required by the transition is not defined before the
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transition is created, it will not create the relation `transition 
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require the group moderator`.
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``add_state`` expects as the first argument the name of the state you are
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willing to create, then the entity type on which the state can be applied, 
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and an optionnal argument to set if the state is the initial state
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of the entity type or not.
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``add_transition`` expects as the first argument the name of the 
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transition, then the entity type on which we can apply the transition,
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then the list of possible initial states from which the transition
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can be applied, the target state of the transition, and the permissions
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(e.g. list of the groups of users who can apply the transition).
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.. image:: images/lax-book.03-transitions-view.en.png
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You can now notice that in the actions box of a BlogEntry, the state
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is now listed as well as the possible transitions from this state
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defined by the workflow. This transition, as defined in the workflow,
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will only being displayed for the users belonging to the group
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moderators of managers.
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Change view permission
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Conclusion
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Exercise
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Create new blog entries in ``Tech-blog``.
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What we learned
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Creating a simple schema was enough to set up a new application that
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can store blogs and blog entries. 
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What is next ?
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Although the application is fully functionnal, its look is very
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basic. In the following section we will learn to create views to
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customize how data is displayed.
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