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Platypus Terminology
- HTML
- We often refer to the prototype HTML as just HTML. We do this
even though the source for the prototype might actually be in m4 files.
- Access
- We use the term Access for when the presentation layer requests a
series of records from the business layer. Currently, this is always a
database query. However, future versions might allow Accesses to require
information from other sources, such as LDAP servers or search engines.
- Configuration
- There are several sets of configuration files in Platypus / Enhydra,
including multiserver.conf, application.conf, and the configuration
rooted in dev.conf. Unless otherwise indicated, we use the term
configuration to refer to the description of the application rooted
in the file dev.conf.
- Pulldown
- A pulldown may also be known as a Select Option or Drop Down Menu. The
HTML code uses the <SELECT> and <OPTION> tags to create a
pulldown. Using Platypus, some pulldowns may be dynamically created
from database queries.