Sections

Glossary Entries

Glossary of terms

General

Inventory #
Special folderish content-type which allows storing of the content with user defined attributes and configuring it's form of presentation.
Category #
An helper folderish type used to organizing the inventory content into hierarchycal structure (not physically).
Item #
An basic content-type addable into the inventory which supports user defined schemata and fields.

Schemata

Schema / Schemata #
An group of fields representing item attributes.
Field #
Schemata element representing content-type attribute, it's type and other properties like title, description, size etc.
Widget #
A component of a graphical user interface related to assigned schemata field that the user interacts with.
Schema editor #
A powerfull Plone component / tool which provides graphical web user interface for editing archetypes based schemata through web browser.
Accessor #
An special method generated by archetypes machinery to get value of the field.