doc/book/_maybe_to_integrate/template.rst
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:28:51 +0200
branch3.23
changeset 11433 a703f00718c2
parent 1714 a721966779be
child 12792 e2cdb1be6bd9
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[migration] More resilient migration script Query the information schema to retrieve existing constraint (primary key and unique) and drop them. Thus don't use anymore DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS (not implemented by e.g. old versions of sqlserver). To do so a missing DISTINCT was necessary to avoid duplicates.



Templates
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*Templates* are specific views that do not depend on a result set. The basic
class `Template` (`cubicweb.common.view`) is derived from the class `View`.

To build a HTML page, a *main template* is used. In general, the template of
identifier `main` is the one to use (it is not used in case an error is raised or for
the login form for example). This template uses other templates in addition
to the views which depends on the content to generate the HTML page to return.

A *template* is responsible for:

1. executing RQL query of data to render if necessary
2. identifying the view to use to render data if it is not specified
3. composing the HTML page to return

You will find out more about templates in :ref:`templates`.