GlossaryΒΆ

This is a glossary for Plomino-specific terms. It is still heavily under construction.

Action
An Action in Plomino renders a UI element that allows the user to trigger some processing.
Agent
An Agent object executes some code as a configured user.
Column
A Column defines a value that should be computed for each Document that matches a View.
Content Rules
A Plone feature allowing code or events to be configures upon events such as object creation or modification.
Document
A Document in Plomino contains named Item objects, that are rendered by View and Form objects.
Field
A Field object, which lives in a Form, renders a Widget, sometimes accepts input, and triggers events.
Form
A Form object, containing fields, edits Document objects according to the fields and events configured on the form.
Formula
In the context of Plomino, a formula is a snippet of restricted Python code executed in the context of a field or event.
Hide-when
A formula that determines whether an action or section of a form is rendered.
Item
An Item stored a value on a Document.
Sub-form
A Form object rendered as part of another form.
View
A View defines a group of Documents related by a selection formula.
ZMI
The Zope Management Interface.
ZODB
The Zope Object Database: transparent persistence for Python objects, since 2002. (Before 2002, it was part of Zope.)

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