A plugin is a tar gzipped file. The admin interface only allow you to tar gzip files and folder with the plugin_* prefix but from the shell there is no similtation
cd applications/yourapp tar zcvf web2py.plugin.name.w2p [list of files to include] if you include views/layout.html you will accomplish the goal. On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:09:16 UTC-5, François Delpierre wrote: > > Ok, so it means that the solution from Massimo is not working anymore : > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.web2py/71241 > > How can I then make plugins that automatically change the layout of the > application without having to leave web interface ? > > That's strange, as one of the downloadable layout does exactly that, and > works : > pivert@skinner:~/Downloads$ tar -ztvf web2py.plugin.layout_Compromise.w2p > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 5559 2010-11-03 17:09 views/layout.html > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 3359 2010-11-03 17:03 > static/plugin_layouts/superfish.css > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 3714 2010-11-03 17:03 > static/plugin_layouts/superfish.js > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 5559 2010-11-03 17:07 > views/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise.html > drwxr-xr-x mdipierro/staff 0 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/ > drwxr-xr-x mdipierro/staff 0 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/ > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 6452 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/index.html > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 13901 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/license.txt > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 18861 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/preview.png > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 4856 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/style.css > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 1631 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/img01.gif > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 413 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/img02.jpg > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 2496 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/img03.jpg > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 9087 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/img04.jpg > -rw-r--r-- mdipierro/staff 2989 2010-10-20 07:09 > static/plugin_layouts/layouts/Compromise/images/img05.gif > > > --
