1.5. Available cubes#
An instance is made of several basic cubes. In the set of available basic cubes we can find for example:
1.5.1. Base entity types#
addressbook: PhoneNumber and PostalAddress
card: Card, generic documenting card
event: Event (define events, display them in calendars)
file: File (to allow users to upload and store binary or text files)
link: Link (to collect links to web resources)
mailinglist: MailingList (to reference a mailing-list and the URLs for its archives and its admin interface)
person: Person (easily mixed with addressbook)
task: Task (something to be done between start and stop date)
zone: Zone (to define places within larger places, for example a city in a state in a country)
1.5.2. Classification#
1.5.3. Other features#
basket: Basket (like a shopping cart)
blog: a blogging system using Blog and BlogEntry entity types
comment: system to attach comment threads to entities)
email: archiving management for emails (Email, Emailpart, Emailthread), trigger action in cubicweb through email
To declare the use of a cube, once installed, add the name of the cube and its dependency relation in the __depends_cubes__ dictionary defined in the file __pkginfo__.py of your own component.