.. _AvailableCubes:

Available cubes

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An instance is made of several basic cubes. In the set of available

basic cubes we can find for example:

Base entity types

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* addressbook_: PhoneNumber and PostalAddress

* card_: Card, generic documenting card

* event_: Event (define events, display them in calendars)

* file_: File (to allow users to upload and store binary or text files)

* link_: Link (to collect links to web resources)

* mailinglist_: MailingList (to reference a mailing-list and the URLs

  for its archives and its admin interface)

* person_: Person (easily mixed with addressbook)

* task_: Task (something to be done between start and stop date)

* zone_: Zone (to define places within larger places, for example a

  city in a state in a country)

Classification

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* folder_: Folder (to organize things by grouping them in folders)

* keyword_: Keyword (to define classification schemes)

* tag_: Tag (to tag anything)

Other features

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* basket_: Basket (like a shopping cart)

* blog_: a blogging system using Blog and BlogEntry entity types

* comment_: system to attach comment threads to entities)

* email_: archiving management for emails (`Email`, `Emailpart`,

  `Emailthread`), trigger action in cubicweb through email

.. _addressbook: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-addressbook

.. _basket: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-basket

.. _card: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-card

.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-blog

.. _comment: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-comment

.. _email: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-email

.. _event: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-event

.. _file: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-file

.. _folder: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-folder

.. _keyword: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-keyword

.. _link: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-link

.. _mailinglist: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-mailinglist

.. _person: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-person

.. _tag: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-tag

.. _task: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-task

.. _zone: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-zone

To declare the use of a cube, once installed, add the name of the cube

and its dependency relation in the `__depends_cubes__` dictionary

defined in the file `__pkginfo__.py` of your own component.

.. note::

  The listed cubes above are available as debian-packages on `CubicWeb's forge`_.

.. _`CubicWeb's forge`: http://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects