Today I will not actually program any stuff, but i will layout some basic stuff on paper this blog.

First draft :

I will start from the default object properties :

DefaultObjectProps :

• id : unique identifier
• description : text description (for dropdownlists etc)
• created : date of creation
• created by : user
• modified : date of last modification
• modified by : user

Then the default act_as_props

DefaultActAsProps < DefaultObjectProps

• Parent (id, type)

ActAsSecured < DefaultActAsProps

• OwnerUser : user
• OwnerGroup : group
• UserRights,GroupRights,AnonymousRights : CRUD bools
• implements :
  • bool Allow Read (type,int id)
  • bool Allow Write (type,int id)
  • bool Allow Create (type,int id)
  • bool Allow Update (type,int id)

ActAsTree < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsPageable < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsSortable < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsFilterable < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsTaggable < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsSchedule < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsCommentable < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsRule < DefaultActAsProps

ActAsFileContainer < DefaultActAsProps

An object instance can be represented in two ways

• PresentAsRow : Object row view
• PresentAsForm : Object Form view

These rowpresenters will be used in a form. The default form view will be modified by the act-as modules

For example :

• If an object implements ActAsTree, the grid can be modified into a treeview
• If an object implements ActAsTaggable, each object can be tagged
• If an object implements ActAsSchedule, the objects can be shown in a calendar view
• ... 

I hope you get the idea from these examples...

That is it for today... See you again tomorrow...