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Base views

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*CubicWeb* provides a lot of standard views, that can be found in

 :mod:`cubicweb.web.views` and :mod:`cubicweb.web.views.baseviews`.

A certain number of views are used to build the web interface, which

apply to one or more entities. Their identifier is what distinguish

them from each others and the main ones are:

HTML views

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Special views

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*noresult*

    This view is the default view used when no result has been found

    (e.g. empty result set).

*final*

    Display the value of a cell without trasnformation (in case of a non final

    entity, we see the eid). Applicable on any result set.

.. note::

   `final` entities are merely attributes.

*null*

    This view is the default view used when nothing needs to be rendered.

    It is always applicable.

Entity views

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*incontext, outofcontext*

    Those are used to display a link to an entity, depending on the

    entity having to be displayed in or out of context

    (of another entity).  By default it respectively produces the

    result of `textincontext` and `textoutofcontext` wrapped in a link

    leading to the primary view of the entity.

*oneline*

    This view is used when we can't tell if the entity should be considered as

    displayed in or out of context.  By default it produces the result of `text`

    in a link leading to the primary view of the entity.

List

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*list*

    This view displays a list of entities by creating a HTML list (`<ul>`)

    and call the view `listitem` for each entity of the result set.

*listitem*

    This view redirects by default to the `outofcontext` view.

*sameetypelist*

    This view displays a list of entities of the same type, in HTML section (`<div>`)

    and call the view `sameetypelistitem` for each entity of the result set.

*sameetypelistitem*

    This view redirects by default to the `listitem` view.

*csv*

    This view applies to entity groups, which are individually

    displayed using the `incontext` view. It displays each entity as a

    coma separated list. It is NOT related to the well-known text file

    format.

Text entity views

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*text*

    This is the simplest text view for an entity. By default it returns the

    result of the `.dc_title` method, which is cut to fit the

    `navigation.short-line-size` property if necessary.

*textincontext, textoutofcontext*

    Similar to the `text` view, but called when an entity is considered out or

    in context. By default it returns respectively the result of the

    methods `.dc_title` and `.dc_long_title` of the entity.