horae.properties 1.0a1

Provides the dynamic property infrastructure used by the Horae resource planning system

Introduction

horae.properties provides the dynamic property infrastructure used by the client, project, milestone and ticket content objects of the horae.ticketing.

Usage

The package builds up on three main classes:

Properties

Container for persistent properties

Property

A property providing one or more fields

Propertied

An object based on the fields provided by the properties which are defined by the corresponding property containers

Objects using the property architecture have to subclass the horae.properties.propertied.PropertiedMixin mix in class and their add, edit and display forms have to subclass the corresponding base classes PropertiedAddForm, PropertiedEditForm and PropertiedDisplayForm defined in horae.properties.views. The properties for a propertied object are collected from all named adapters implementing horae.properties.interfaces.IProperties and adapting the object. Sample implementations may be found in the horae.ticketing package.

There are five property containers implemented by horae.properties which there are:

Global properties

Properties available for all propertied objects

Client properties

Properties available for clients

Project properties

Properties available for projects

Milestone properties

Properties available for milestones

Ticket properties

Properties available for tickets

Properties may be created or customized persistently using the GUI provided by horae.properties. Another way to define properties is by defining them as default properties which is done by registering a named global utility implementing horae.properties.interfaces.IDefaultProperty. Examples of such default properties may be found in the horae.ticketing package.

Property types

The package provides the following Property implementations defined in horae.properties.properties:

BoolProperty

A boolean property

TextLineProperty

A textline property

TextProperty

A text property

RichTextProperty

A rich text property

ChoiceProperty

A choice property

MultipleChoiceProperty

A multiple choice property

WeightedChoiceProperty

A choice property having weighted options

FloatProperty

A float property

PriceProperty

A price property

UserProperty

A user property

UserRoleProperty

A user role property

GroupProperty

A group property

GroupRoleProperty

A group role property

DateTimeProperty

A date time property

DateTimeRangeProperty

A date time range property

History

A Propertied object stores changes in a list of PropertyChange objects to preserve a changelog of the lifecycle. A view of the whole history may be provided by sub-classing the horae.properties.views.History base class.

Dependencies

Horae

• horae.auth

• horae.autocomplete

• horae.cache

• horae.core

• horae.layout

• horae.lifecycle

• horae.timeaware

Third party

• grok

• z3c.relationfield

Changelog

1.0a1 (2012-01-16)

• Initial release