Specs

This section contains technical specifications for the components of the Lino framework that are covered by the book.

Core plugins

The following plugins are part of the lino.modlib:

• about : Information about a site
• checkdata : High-level integrity tests
• comments : The comments framework
• dashboard : customizable dashboard
• gfks : Utilites for Generic Foreign Keys
• jinja : Jinja printing
• memo : The memo parser
• notify: Notification framework
• printing : Basic printing functionality
• users : user management
• about : Site-wide search
• summaries : Summary tables
• system : some system features

The following plugins are currently still part of the lino.modlib but might be moved to lino_xl some day:

• beid : Belgian ID card holders
• ssin : Belgian national identification numbers
• export_excel : Exporting to Excel
• tinymce : Add the TinyMCE editor

Plugins of the Extensions library

• addresses : Multiple addresses per partner
• ana: Analytical accounting
• appypod : Generate printable documents from odt templates
• b2c: BankToCustomer SEPA
• bevat : Belgian VAT declarations
• bevats : Simplified Belgian VAT declarations
• c2b: Export SEPA CustomerToBank statements
• cal : Calendar functionality
• calview : Calendar view
• clients : Manage clients and client contacts
• coachings : Managing coachings
• contacts : Managing contacts
• countries : Countries and cities
• courses : Managing courses
• cv : Managing career-related data of clients
• eevat : Estonian VAT declarations
• events : Generating a static calendar of events
• excerpts: Database excerpts
• groups : user groups
• healthcare : Manage healthcare providers
• files : Manage external files
• finan : Bank, cash and miscellaneous journal entries
• households : handling households and their members
• humanlinks : managing family relationships
• invoicing : Generating invoices
• ledger: General accounting
• lists : Partner lists
• notes: Notes
• office : Adding an "Office" menu
• orders : Managing orders
• phones : Multiple phone numbers per partner (Contact details)
• polls : managing questionnaires and responses
• products : defining the things you sell and buy
• properties : configurable properties
• sales : Product invoices
• sepa : Communicating with the bank using SEPA
• sheets : Balance sheet and Income statement
• tickets (Ticket management)
• tim2lino : importing legacy data from TIM
• topics : topics and partner interests
• trends : Managing trends
• uploads : Managing uploaded files
• userstats: User statistics
• vat : Adding VAT (Value-added tax) functionality
• weasyprint: Printing documents using WeasyPrint
• xl : General utilities for XL plugins

Application specs

Some applications have the privilege of being part of the Lino book, so their technical documentation is provided and maintained by the Lino core team.

• Lino Così
• Lino Noi specs
• Lino Avanti specs
• Lino Tera specs
• Lino Polly
• Lino Care, a network of people who care
• The Lino Minimal projects
• Lino Voga specs

Topic guides

• Accounting stuff in Lino
• The Human mixin
• The Born mixin
• Defining holidays
• Adding IBAN numbers
• Standard Plugin Library

Technical stuff

• Answering to invalid requests
• Multi-table inheritance (MTI)
• Is MTI a bad thing?
• The belref project
• The label of the actor
• UI tests
• Internationalization
• Using mldbc with different variants of a same language
• A tested example of GFK fields
• Python dumps by example
• Django migrations on a Lino site
• Refusing permission to an anonymous request
• The Python serializer
• Utilities for generating Javascript code
• Generating HTML
• getlino : the Lino installer