2 posts tagged with "Schemas"

OpenRegister is the data engine behind every Conduction app. It stores your data not as rows in a hand-built table but as objects that follow a schema you design, grouped into a register you own. Where a traditional application bakes its data model into code and a database migration, OpenRegister lets you draw the model in the interface and start storing real records the same minute, with versioning, an audit trail, search, files and permissions all handled for you.

This tutorial builds a Pet Store data model, the canonical Conduction sample domain. You will create a register, design a pet schema, add owner and category schemas with real relations between them, fill the register with pets through the interface, attach a photo to one, make pets findable in Nextcloud's search, and finally export the whole thing as a configuration file that travels to any other instance. No code, no database, no deploy.

This is Part 2 of the nine-part app-building tutorial series. Part 1 left you with an empty app shell, a chassis, no data. Part 2 fills the chassis: three schemas (modelled on the OpenAPI Pet Store), a manifest, and the same five Cn* pages drive every list, every detail view, every dashboard with the schema as the single source of truth.

The shape we keep saying "this saves you code" finally has numbers behind it: ~200 lines of hand-rolled Vue collapse to three.