Library Management with Frappe Framework
Who is this for? What are we building?
Who is this for?
What are we building?
A list of resources to help you get started with building apps using Frappe.
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JavaScript / jQuery
Jinja Templating
Git / GitHub
Bench is the command line tool to manage Frappe apps and sites.
Installation
Create the frappe-bench directory
Directory Structure
Start the Bench Server
Create a frappe app scaffold using the bench CLI.
Create app
App directory structure
A site comes with a database and apps can be installed on it.
Create a new site
Site Directory Structure
Access site in your browser
Install app on site
Login to Desk
Site commands
DocType is analogous to a Model in other frameworks. Apart from defining properties, it also defines the behavior of the Model.
Enable Developer Mode
Creating a DocType
What happened when you created the Article DocType?
In the previous chapter, we created the Article doctype. Let's see what other features we can customize.
Naming
Form Layout
Form Settings
Permissions
Controller methods allow you to write business logic during the lifecycle of a document.
Controller Methods
Let's learn about the different types of doctype in the framework by creating more doctypes.
Library Membership
Linked DocTypes
Submittable DocTypes
Controller Validation for Membership
Library Transaction
Validation for Transaction
Library Settings
Single DocTypes
Validation for Library Settings
Form Scripts are client-side javascript code that enhances the UX of your Forms.
Form Scripts
Portal pages are server rendered pages for your website visitors.
Portal Pages
Customize Web View Template
The goal of this tutorial was to give an introduction to the various parts of the framework. We have only scratched the surface here. Frappe Framework has a lot more features that have enabled us to build complex software such as ERPNext.
What's Next?
Need Help?
This quiz has a few basic questions on what we have learned so far. It will give you an idea of how well you have understood the lessons.
Practice
Now that you have completed this tutorial and created the Library Management App using the Frappe Framework, its time you create an app on your own
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All Courses Library Management with Frappe Framework What are we building?
What are we building?
Faris Ansari
May 19, 2021

We will build a simple Library Management System in which the Librarian can log in and manage Articles and Memberships.

We will build the following models:

  1. Article: A Book or similar item that can be rented.
  2. Library Member: A user who is subscribed to a membership.
  3. Library Transaction: An Issue or Return of an article.
  4. Library Membership: A document that represents an active membership of a Library Member.
  5. Library Settings: Settings that define values like Loan Period and the maximum number of articles that can be issued at a time.

The Librarian will log in to an interface known as Desk, a rich admin interface that ships with the framework. The Desk provides many standard views like List view, Form view, Report view, etc, and many features like Role-based Permissions.

We will also create public Web Views which can be accessed by the Library Members where they can browse available Articles.

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