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# Misc To Do Items From The Docs

## Configuration

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Understand “variable_provider”: you define tg.config[‘variable_provider’] = callable and that returns a dict with all the variables you want in all templates.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/7db400f92f652fd4/95c256ac817a5102?hl=en How can I configure genshi?

## Authorization/Authentication

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. add in notes regarding how to use repoze.who’s user_checker

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/c2aa4cb5ed07f52d?hl=en Everything there is to know about the current auth/identity in TG2

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/3afbc13d88af57d3?hl=en TG2 repoze.who and multiple auth sources

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/f3c2c616f5530426?hl=en Help with Authentication

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/54306a9fd9b76a7d?hl=en How to check if the user is authorized for a controller or action

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/f6c61b5f1668e6d3?hl=en Auth can now be configured via config [ini] files percious: priority high

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/ba405adcabf4f78f?hl=en Configuring LDAP authentication on turbogears2 percious: priority high on this one

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/4a87b275876647b6?hl=en list of connected users?

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/9fab648428c20761?hl=en login_handler

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/f35ef3d347793682?hl=en What’s wrong with predicates being “booleanized”

## ToscaWidgets

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. TW2 usage documentation

Todo

Difficulty: Easy. Add note for “validator=Schema(allow_extra_fields=True)” for ToscaWidgets and RestController classes

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/33a64a06ee4020ce?hl=en Upload images to a TG2 app with Dojo (Ajax style)

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/bb07ff87d38367f0?hl=en Best way to add fields on the fly to TW Forms?

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/ca5ddeabdc7cb517?hl=en trying to inject Dojo resources with ToscaWidgets

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/72e106fc6512b1cb?hl=en Toscawidgets form with multiple buttons priority: low

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/a691ae9d3b31138d?hl=en Flash Widget

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/7d5a07b4a21d7226?hl=en Visitor IP & pre-populated toscawidget field from database

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/be2939380bfe0f2b?hl=en Using ImageButton() as submit throws an error

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/c721e2d15bb2c134?hl=en Return to form after custom validation and keep form data?

## Controllers

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Document @restrict decorator, restricts request types that a given method will respond to

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. incorporate custom routes docs from here http://simplestation.com/locomotion/routes-in-turbogears2/ percious: There is a better way of doing this by overriding _dispatch in 2.0 so I would wait until I re-write RoutedController with _dispatch before documenting this

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. RestController requires that all data come in as a key/value pair, can’t just get raw POST body. percious: not sure what you mean by this. You want to provide RestController with just a blob of data? jorge: yes, this was the complain from europe74 this goes against the atom protocol http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-9.2 I think that this needs to be a trac ticket, not a doc todo

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/ad87eeef701ed1b1?hl=en exception object in ErrorController

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/3ba7ca9d35fd9d75?fwc=1 mounting test-controllers/getting root-controller instance?

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/b97ee4faeb6acd53?hl=en CRC does wacky pluralization percious: this should probably be a trac ticket, not a doc todo.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/d4635f5eb2ad1dc4?hl=en how could a controller method know whether it’s invoked as an error_handler or directly

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/9b451d82b410f844?hl=en TG2 serveFile equivalent?

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/1c4158ad3035082c?hl=en Secure Static Files TG2

## Installation

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. http://turbogears.org/2.0/docs/main/DownloadInstall.html references ttp://www.turbogears.org/2.0/downloads/current/tg2-bootstrap.py and this needs to be updated. Or does it? request from percious, the code to generate the installer currently has tg.devtools/scripts/_installer.py and it’s fixed at 2.0 only update needed is to hg

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/263233e9a8081c7a?hl=en easy_install and offline installation in virtualenv og TG2 percious: we need to add an offline install section to deployment. This should not be very difficult, it’s basically 2 commands.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/bbf8c847e77ca740?hl=en TG2 on Webfaction - Make TG not see the extra part of the URL

## Database

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/92581851b407cdd6?hl=en migrate priority: high

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/57229bc8677f0e6b/a9843e77e67af793?hl=en Problem with accessing attributes after transaction.commit()

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/d64d27b2cf54bb2e?hl=en Suggestion about how turbojson handle SQLAlchemy object circuit jorge: this seems like a feature request rather than a docs item

Todo

Difficulty: uncertain. Document how SA+TG+Transaction manager work together.

## Templating

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/4fc2abf3b91b9ce3?hl=en tg_template is now override_template

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/1174aad1b3350b5c TurboGears2: Overriding meta element on child template.

## Review

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. critique the toc, and other organization.

I think the toc has an airy aroma, with a hint of cherry and oak. It is not yet aged to perfection, but will mature as time goes on. This todo will be open for some time.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium: the TG logo is missing in the new theme. It’s hard to find a place for it where it does not disturb in the new layout.

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. add prerequisites to all pages - well, especially tutorials

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Compare Our Docs to Django Docs <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/, see where we can do better. Also compare to pylons book!

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. laurin is following the tutorial path. right now, I created a tutorials directory under _static. perhaps, all tutorial images, etc should go in there? just a thought.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. make docs more linky. provide link to pylons, and why tg2 is now based on it. eventually, I’d really like to see links to pylonsbook for specific “more information”, and how turbogears is different/expands upon it

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/1f9853eac52decd5?hl=en Rolling back transactions in TG2 (I think this is documented, need to double check)

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Resolve all tickets that match this query: http://trac.turbogears.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Documentation&order=id

## General

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. include links to “read more” - especially true of tutorials that just scratch the surface (this kind of replaces the “more linky” todo)

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. parts is parts: the text on the frontgage of a quickstart says: “standing on the shoulders of giants, since 2007” - provide a main place to see what components are used (by default) in turbogears. don’t be afraid to mention TG2 is built on pylons now, and link to the pylonsbook for more info

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. only after showing the default components - show what components can be easily switched in TG2, and how

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Add lifecycle of TG project in the getting to know TG section.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. make sure that override_template is more visible, and provide a tutorial on how to use it

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. http://code.google.com/p/tgtools/source/browse/projects/tgext.admin/trunk/tgext/admin/tgadminconfig.py#114 << how to override tgext.admin controllers properly

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/9b07a8d34611f5d7?hl=en TG2 virtualenv MySQLdb ImportError. Should we be providing documentation to debug MySQLdb problems? Seems out of scope.

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/5dd5b090eb0d4c49?hl=en List of Quickstarted files that are safe to remove percious: I think this is a terrible idea to document

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/ae89ea2b3a354bc2?hl=en Lukasz Szybalski’s docs: http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/TurboGears2

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Document the code_ext extension for Sphinx (docs/code_ext.py) TG documentation writers should be aware of this extension, and how to use it.

## Other

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Include these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/4023f34fd114121e?hl=en Trouble with WebHelpers

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Incorporate these docs: http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_frm/thread/b718855725da557d?hl=en tgext and i18n

Todo

Difficulty: Hard. Performance deployment enhancements pretty much explain all the YSlow issues * serving static files from the frontent, /config/app_cfg.py base_config.serve_static = False * compressing JS/html/CSS,etc

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. Add shell script which validates environment for building docs

Todo

Difficulty: Medium. main/ToscaWidgets/forms.rst uses the archive directive. This outputs an absolute path relative to root on the machine that builds the docs. Fix the code so it is relative to _build/html/_static