Making new metadata types

Most of the overhead for creating new item types in Aristotle-MDR is taken care of by inheritance within the Python language and the Django web framework.

• Making new item types
  • Customising the edit page for a new type
  • Including additional items when downloading a custom concept type
  • Caveats: concept versus _concept
  • Retrieving the “true item” when you are returned a _concept.
  • Setting up search, admin pages and autocompletes for new items types
  • Caveats around extending existing item types
  • Creating unmanagedContent types
  • Including documentation in new content types
  • A complete example of an Aristotle Extension
• Reusing generic actions to manage relations
• Concept model relations
• Using register_concept to connect new concept types
  • Aristotle-MDR concept register
• Out-of-the-box features available for new concept types
  • Content creation wizards that encourage reuse
  • User-friendly modular editor
  • Descriptive SEO friendly URLs
  • Basic HTML and downloadable PDF templates
• Advanced features that require configuration
  • Admin pages
  • Search indexing
• Using the ConceptManager in Django queries