Step 1: Entry Types

Owned by Florian Wolff
Last updated: Aug. 03, 2022
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umkickstarter -n de.pinuts.tutorial cd umkickstarter # Copy your partner license file to env/devel/cmsbs-conf/cmsbs.license gradle setup run

Entry Types

The data model is to contain at least four different domain objects or Entry Types:

  • employees

  • customers

  • partnering shipping companies

  • trucks of that shipping companies

Custom attributes

Employees, customers and shipping companies can be represented by UM entries utilizing only standard attributes. Only trucks seem to stand out; here we need to create a few extra attributes to adequately represent them:

cmsbs-conf/conf.d/truck.attributes:

registration_number.type = STRING registration_number.title = Registration number additional.attributes[] = registration_number max_payload.type = INTEGER max_payload.title = Max. payload in kg additional.attributes[] = max_payload attribute.groups[] = truck grp.truck.members = registration_number max_payload grp.truck.title = Truck

Entry Types

Now we can setup a magic attribute named entrytype.

cmsbs-conf/conf.d/entrytype.attributes:

entrytype.values[] = employee entrytype.values[] = shipping_company entrytype.values[] = customer entrytype.values[] = truck entrytype.value.employee = Employee entrytype.value.shipping_company = Shipping Company entrytype.value.customer = Customer entrytype.value.truck = Truck

Customize Entry views

Now, we’ll customize the Entry views for our four different Entry Types.

cmsbs-conf/entryTypes/type_shipping_company.properties:

cmsbs-conf/entryTypes/type_employee.properties:

cmsbs-conf/entryTypes/type_customer.properties:

cmsbs-conf/entryTypes/type_truck.properties:

Before we can use our new Entry Types we have to comment in one line in build.gradleso the builder knows where to put our entryTypes

After dropping the database and restarting we should be able to create an Entry of each of these four Entry Types and see the customized view and edit pages in action: