Generic Views Module

Simple way to generate view, add, edit and search interfaces for your DataObject instances. Targeted towards usage in a website-frontend. Uses “scaffolding” of formfields based on meta-information from the DataObject class for sensible defaults.

Maintainer Contact

• Ingo Schommer (Nickname: ischommer, Email: <ingo (at) silverstripe (dot) com>)

Requirements

• SilverStripe 2.3

Features

• View a list of all records
• Create, edit or delete records
• Customizeable templates for all views
• Implement your own logic in subclasses
• Integrate in your CMS-Menu as a page type, or use as a standalone controller
• Uses the DataObject permission model (can*() methods)
• Scaffolded search interface based on SearchContext

Related

• http://silverstripe.org/generic-views-module/
• The SilverStripe book (Wiley, 2009), chapters "5. Development: Job Postings" and "6. CRM". See http://wiley.com/go/silverstripe

Usage

1. Download code from github, rename the folder to ‘genericviews’
2. Create a DataObject for use with CRUD (ensuring the canCreate / canEdit / canDelete functions are defined - see http://doc.silverstripe.org/old/recipes:cheat_sheet#dataobject_sitetree_settings)
3. Run a /dev/build/
4. Create a new ‘Collection Page’ in the CMS.
5. Change the 'CollectionModelClass' (on the 'GenericView' tab of the page just created) to the Model requiring CRUD