doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/views.rst
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changeset 5312 d2dbba898a96
parent 5284 ad922b7449aa
--- a/doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/views.rst	Fri Apr 16 14:39:42 2010 +0200
+++ b/doc/book/en/development/devweb/views/views.rst	Fri Apr 16 16:40:25 2010 +0200
@@ -15,14 +15,29 @@
 
 .. _views_base_class:
 
+Discovering possible views
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+It is possible to configure the web user interface to have a left box
+showing all the views than can be applied to the current result set.
+
+To enable this, click on your login at the top right corner. Chose
+"user preferences", then "boxes", then "possible views box" and check
+"visible = yes" before validating your changes.
+
+The views listed there we either not selected because of a lower
+score, or they were deliberately excluded by the main template logic.
+
+
 Basic class for views
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Class `View` (`cubicweb.view`)
 ```````````````````````````````
 
-This class is an abstraction of a view class, used as a base class for every
-renderable object such as views, templates, graphic components, etc.
+This class is an abstraction of a view class, used as a base class for
+every renderable object such as views, templates and other user
+interface components.
 
 A `View` is instantiated to render a result set or part of a result
 set. `View` subclasses may be parametrized using the following class
@@ -109,8 +124,6 @@
         __select__ = one_line_rset() & match_search_state('linksearch') & implements('Any')
 
 
-
-
 XML views, binaries views...
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~