The Chandler Platform

The Chandler Platform provides the basic building blocks of a PIM.

• Items, Extensions and DashboardEntries
  • Items
  • Collections
  • Filtered Subsets
  • “Aggregated” Sets
  • Extensions
    • Entities
    • Subclassing Extension
    • Initializing Attributes When Adding an Extension
  • The DashboardEntry Class
    • Customizing creation of DashboardEntries
  • Extending All Items and DashboardEntries
    • Adding attributes to all Items
    • Adding cells to all DashboardEntries

• Time Services
  • Using Time Zones
  • Naive datetimes and the “floating” Time Zone
  • Setting the Current Date and Time
  • Timestamps
  • Scheduling Callbacks
  • Daylight Savings Time

• Bi-Directional References
  • One-to-many relationships
  • Many-to-many relationships
  • Implementation Notes/To-Dos

• The Runtime API
  • Startup Hook Names
  • Application Object

• Building Interaction Models in Chandler
  • Text objects
  • Command objects
  • Features
  • Scopes
  • The Choice feature
  • Styling and Tags
  • Further Reading

• The Table Interaction Component
  • Observing changes
  • Sorting
  • Adding and Removing Items
  • Changing visible ranges
  • TODO