Many apps in a single app.

[António Ramos]

Just wanted to share my workspace where in the same app i can have as many apps as i want.

I have as default entry an app where i can see all my tasks from any app that uses wokflow that creates tasks/events.

From there i can follow my tasks or i can swith to another app via a workspace page and loading that app can load different menus and layouts.

I have a controller for each app, a models.py for each app ,etc

This way i only have one app that shares users/permissions/groups and all the goodies i have already created.

Regards

António 

[villas]

Very nice Antonio.

My organisation has several apps, but each user has to log in separately for each app, even though we use the same auth_users table for authentication.

Would you please explain a little more because I might refactor our apps to work in the way you suggest...

Thanks! 

[António Ramos]

Something like this

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[António Ramos]

ignore the previous image

this replaces it

[António Ramos]

Then to get all apps in the same screen i created a workspace.html inside views  " named after Lotus Notes workspace for those who know what it is..."

I would like an automatic process to detect all apps but for now i just do it from an array that i update every time i have a new one.

[villas]

Now I understand it better.  I will consider this strategy for future.

Thanks!

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[Leonel Câmara]

This looks good, if you want to take it a step further and have something like sub-controller-functions in your apps that will have their own views folder inside the app views folder you can use this decorator I made:

def parent_controller(views_folder=None, pop_args_zero=True):
    """
    Decorator to turn a controller function into a parent of other controller
    functions.

    This allows you to have many controller functions in a single controller
    function each having their own view inside a folder.

    :views_folder: Folder where it gets the views for the children controllers
                   by default uses the parent controller name.
    :pop_args_zero: whether to remove or not the name of the children controller
                    from request.args. By default True.
    """
    if views_folder is None:
        views_folder = os.path.join(request.controller, request.function)
    def wrapper(action):
        def f(_action=action, *a, **b):
            command = None
            try:
                if pop_args_zero:
                    parseme = request.args.pop(0)
                else:
                    parseme = request.args(0)
                if '.' in parseme:
                    try:
                        command, extension = parseme.split('.')
                    except ValueError:
                        raise HTTP(400, "invalid arguments")
                else:
                     command, extension = parseme, 'html'
            except (IndexError, TypeError): # pop from empty list
                command, extension = 'index', 'html'
           

            response.view = os.path.join(views_folder, command + '.' + extension)

            requested_controller = _action().get(command, None)
            if requested_controller:
                return requested_controller()
            else:
                raise HTTP(404)
        f.__doc__ = action.__doc__
        f.__name__ = action.__name__
        return f
    return wrapper

Then in the app1.py controller you could do something like:

@auth.requires_login()
@parent_controller()
def pages():
    def index():
        ...
        return {}

    def insert():
        ...
        return something

    def delete():
        ...
        return something

    return locals()

And in the views you would have

app1/
    pages/
        index.html
        insert.html
        delete.html

@villas note that in your case it's probably better to have a single application do the log in and then use CAS.

[Daniel Guilhermino]

Leonel,

very interesting this possibility, it is possible to avoid rewriting enough thing, thanks for sharing!