Documentation Index

This article should serve as starting point in the future to index all the articles that describes the current system, its inner-workings, and its integration capabilities.

Basic level

User guides, system overview, basic howtos on managing and administering the default system.

• managing users and groups
• managing group and user permissions
• using the application's logs and digests
• navigating the data interfaces and tuning the interfaces
• working with blogs, articles and product pages
• publishing a new website (using the site_hash methodology)
• managing web users and registrations
• engine field definitions and their renderings, the complete reference
• importing a community db-model into your system

Intermediate level

Database administration guide, data shaping tutorials, data distribution

• Basic concepts of the 4GL engine
• introduction to primary keys
• administering a table and its 4gl/5gl facets and settings
• adding, adjusting and removing dbtable mapping interfaces from the menus
• the grab bag / attribute cloud field type, how to use it, how it maps to data tables as components
• understanding the role of relationships in the data interfaces
• the importance of relationships, indexes and foreign keys in modeling data for rendering and imports in the system
• advanced primary keys, the only SaaS/RDBMS feature missing from the industry, truly composite keys and how we implement and abuse them
• managing CMS & SEO details for your db-table objects and how they affect final Internet renderings
• publishing Internet web sites and content from your db-table objects
• using self-expanding db-tables in your applications, and how we implement them
• importing a custom data model and tables into your system

Advanced level

advanced integration concepts, web hooks, programming APIs and external data feeds

Server-side (self-hosted environments)

• module.cfg configuration files
• users, groups and how security is managed from the data up
• using the engine from a PHP environment
  • An introduction to the DBTable object
  • DBTable\FilterParameter() objects
• overriding your own complete modules (how to override the different user interfaces like the Listing, Edit/View, Delete)

Client-side integration methodologies

• using the engine from a Javascript/Ecmascript environment
• using the engine from a CSS environment (this requires some javascript library linking as well, detailed in the documentation)
• publishing an e-commerce catalog using our engine
• integrating db-tables in your REST/JSON network environments
• sending single record inserts
• sending batches of records for insertion

Expert level

• integrating system configuration bootstrapping on your local network using our automation engine
• bootstrapping inventory compilation scripts to populate your own Bot Garden
• streaming real-time data to your Bot Garden

Additional howtos and guides that might be relevant

PHP programmer's reference to our Core object stack

PHP programmer's reference to our db-table stack

Web programmer's reference to our engine through JS and CSS (cloud or on-premise)

Our view and methodologies to implement security within the framework and our business

Internal security audit report