A "DynView" represents the way how certain ]po[ will render a list of objects.
Frequent new modules need to extend the ListPages of important business objects (such as customers, projects, ...) by their additional columns. For example the ]po[ Timesheet module may need to add a column to the ProjectListPage with the amount of hours spend on every projects. The ]po[ Core module may not know about this future necessity in the moment is is implemented. So we want to allow a-posteriori extension of ListPages.
Dynamic Views are also required/desired when showing information about subclasses of objects, such as an EmployeeListPage. The EmployeeListPage may want to add a column such as "Monthly Salary", which does not make sense in the general UserListPage. Dynamic Views allow to have a single .tcl/.adp page showing different views, depending on URL runtime parameters.
To allow for dynamic extensibility, we keep all column information in a database table:
Structure of the im_view_columns database table:
create table im_view_columns column_id integer constraint im_view_columns_pk primary key, view_id integer not null constraint im_view_view_id_fk references im_views, column_name varchar(100) not null, -- tcl command being executed using "eval" for rendering the column column_render_tcl varchar(4000), -- add to select statement for when the column name results from an "as" command -- for ex., you can customize viewing columns extra_select varchar(4000), extra_where varchar(4000), sort_order integer not null, -- set of permission tokens that allow viewing this column, -- separated with spaces and OR-joined visible_for varchar(1000) );
Im_views contains a mapping of names to view_ids and provides RI to im_view_columns:
create table im_views ( view_id integer constraint im_views_pk primary key, view_name varchar(100) constraint im_views_name_un not null unique, visible_for varchar(1000) );
There is a typical ListPage example that shows how everything fits together.
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