The Quick Adapters are a way to inject models fast, and also a way to let a non technical user work on the data model. This tool should only be used by seasoned Simplicité developers.
They are provided as a platform add-on through the AppStore and are not bijective, the general idea of the process is as follows:
- work on the datamodel in a spreadsheet to define the objects, the attributes, the translations, the lists, etc
- import this datamodel in CSV format through the adapters
- implement basic configuration in Simplicité :
- create relationships in the modeler
- work on the object’s templates
- implement the rest of the configuration & logic
“Quick Adapters” Tutorial
1- Install the “SimAdapters” module through the AppStore
2- After clearing the cache follow the link to the Google Sheet Quick Adapter template in the module description
3- Fill up you spreadsheet, chose object names, trigrams & attributes in a flat format as presented in the template, and download the CSV file
4- Import
5- Verify
- check the import supervisor logs and the platform logs
- check that the objects, attributes, transletions, etc, were correctly created
6- repeat the process for QuickListAdapter
Additional information
- this is an add-on, the support on add-ons is not prioritary
- PRs are welcome on GitHub, there are TODOs in the code and many things to improve