== !BluePrint for the S3 Framework ==

This area is to develop & enhance the S3 Framework wich is built on top of T2/Web2Py.

Current framework features are documented here: [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesS3Framework DeveloperGuidelinesS3Framework]

 * [wiki:BluePrintAuthenticationAccess Authentication, Authorization & Accounting]
 * [wiki:BluePrintCSS CSS Cleanup]
 * [wiki:BluePrintMany2Many Many to Many widget]
 * [wiki:BluePrintREST RESTful API]
 * [wiki:BluePrintSynchronisation Synchronisation]
 * [wiki:BluePrintWebSetup Web Setup]

=== Sub-menus ===
Currently the left-hand navbar has only 2 levels of hierarchy: Modules & Module Options[[BR]]
Some modules (e.g. DVI) need more.[[BR]]
This is also discussed in the [wiki:BluePrintCSS BluePrintCSS]

 * add a parent field (like for {{{gis_location}}})
 * amend {{{views/layout.html}}} to make use of them

=== MVC Separation ===
Whilst Web2Py is fundamentally an MVC framework, it makes it encourages pushing back as much as possible into the Controller, Model or even Module to gain the benefits of re-use of code & massively simplified prototyping.
 * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/1bbf97d3a70d7c0b

If we think this could become problematic then we could choose to avoid this.

There is already support in the framework for this:
 * [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesCRUDManual Manual Forms]
 * Form Field fragments: e.g. {{{views/form_name.html}}}

Q: Is it worth developing a version of the [wiki:BluePrintREST RESTlike controller] which uses Manual Forms instead of Tools/T2?

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