Saltcorn Wiki

This is the wiki for saltcorn, an open source extensible no-code application builder. The wiki itself is built on saltcorn! You can contribute to the wiki by creating an account.

Links

• Main Website
• GitHub Repository
• Bug Reports and Feedback
• Forum
• Saltcorn Blog
• Roadmap

Introduction

• Concepts
• Principles
• Frequently asked questions
• Privacy on Saltcorn

Installation

• Where can I run Saltcorn?
• Install on Ubuntu
• Install on Windows 10
• Deploy with Docker
• One-click install on DigitalOcean
• Deployment on Linode

Creating Your Application

• Overview
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Packs – shortcuts to working applications
  • Activating plugins
  • Themes

• Data Model

  • Creating tables
  • Adding fields to tables
  • Field types
  • Calculated fields
  • Modelling relationships
  • Uploading data from CSV files

• User Interface

  • Understanding fieldviews and view templates
  • Creating views
  • View templates
  • View state
  • Building views
  • Adding pages
  • Flexible filtering
  • Builder library
  • Interfaces for many-to-many relationships
  • Some useful plugins
  • Real-time chat rooms
• Events and Actions
  • Events and actions: terminology
  • Event types
  • Creating triggers
  • Never and API triggers
  • Actions overview
  • Blocks actions
  • JavaScript code actions
  • Sending emails with blocks or JavaScript
  • Event and crash logs

• Administration

  • Using files
  • Security and access control with user roles
  • Application administration and settings
  • User administration
  • Setting the user interface theme

• Tutorials

  • Creating a blog
  • Creating a todo list
  • Cookbook

Operating

• Operating Saltcorn
• Domain name configuration
• Multitenancy
• Using the API
• Authentication with external identity providers
• HTTPS encryption
• Using the Gmail SMTP server

Plugin development

• Plugin examples
• Getting started with plugin development
• Creating a new type
• Creating a new viewtemplate
• Creating a new theme

Saltcorn development

• Saltcorn code base
• Setting up a development environment
• Adding a new translation
• Development of Saltcorn using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Visual Studio Code