Glossary

form

This refers to a collection of fields, usually corresponding to a record, which may be simply displayed readonly, or made editable as needed for CRUD etc.

See also Forms.

grid

This refers to a “table of data, with features” essentially. Sometimes it may be displayed as a simple table with no features, or sometimes it has sortable columns, search filters and other tools.

See also the Grid base class.

menu handler

This is the handler responsible for constructing the main app menu at top of page.

The menu handler is accessed by way of the web handler.

See also the MenuHandler base class.

view

This is an “overloaded” term, which often refers to a MasterView class or instance, but often refers instead to a method thereof. The latter is more accurately called a view callable which is a Pyramid term.

See also Views.

web handler

This is the handler responsible for overall web layer customizations, e.g. logo image and menu overrides. Although the latter it delegates to the menu handler.

See also the WebHandler base class.