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The section headings were derived from position ranges: 10-29 became Assets, 30-49 became Information. A number is for ORDER; it was never a statement about meaning, and using it as one meant a plugin landed in whichever bucket its number happened to fall in. That is how USB Devices - an asset - came to sit under Information beside GE-Enforce and Tech Tools, and 3D Parts with it. Nobody chose that. It also meant two plugins picking the same number silently reordered each other: Warranties and Guides both held 8, the tie broke on plugin load order, and Guides rendered under Warranties rather than under Slides where it was asked to go. Warranties moves to 9. Each nav item now names its section and the renderer groups by what was declared. An item with no section stays in the unlabelled group at the top, which is the safe default: it appears, it is simply not filed. Assets gains USB Devices and 3D Parts. GE-Enforce and Tech Tools move to a new Fleet section - they are neither assets nor reference material, and calling them Information was only ever an artefact of their position numbers. Also: sorting used `position || 99`, and 0 is falsy in JavaScript, so Dashboard - the only item that uses 0 - sorted to the end of its own group.
Printedparts plugin
3D-printed parts inventory + kiosk checkout
This plugin was generated by flask plugin new printedparts. It satisfies the framework contract out of the box. Replace the example model and routes with your domain.
What's here
plugin.py- thePrintedpartsPluginclass extendingBasePlugin. Editinit_appfor custom setup,on_installto seed reference data.models/printedparts.py- example Asset extension table. Replaceexamplefieldwith your domain fields.api/routes.py- example list and detail endpoints. Add CRUD as needed.schemas/__init__.py- marshmallow schema stub for request/response validation.tests/test_plugin.py- smoke tests asserting contract compliance.manifest.json- plugin metadata. Bumpversionon changes; keepcore_versionrange broad.
Common edits
| You want to... | Do this |
|---|---|
| Add a hook (search, navigation, dashboard widget) | Override the method in PrintedpartsPlugin. See docs/PLUGIN-HOOKS.md. |
| Accept external collector data | Override get_collector_schema() to return a JSON Schema. See ADR-006. |
| Add another model | Create models/<other>.py, export it in models/__init__.py, return it in get_models(). |
| Add a CLI command | Override get_cli_commands() returning a list of Click commands. |
Frontend
Vue components for this plugin live under frontend/src/views/printedparts/ (per project convention). Backend scaffolding does not generate frontend yet; copy from an existing plugin's view files (e.g., frontend/src/views/network/) as a starting point.
Install and run
flask plugin install printedparts
flask db migrate -m "Add printedparts plugin tables"
flask db upgrade
pytest plugins/printedparts/tests/
References
docs/PLUGIN-HOOKS.md- canonical hook referencedocs/PLUGIN-QUICKSTART.md- 30-minute walkthroughmigrations/adr/ADR-001-asset-as-platform-contract.md- the platform contractmigrations/adr/ADR-002-plugin-versioning.md- versioning rules
Why the kiosk take endpoint is unauthenticated
POST /api/printedparts/kiosk/take is the product's first open WRITE (every
other kiosk endpoint is a read). Accepted deliberately, against the criteria
in docs/proposals/printedparts-plugin.md:
- Decrement-only: it can reduce stock of an active item, nothing else.
- Fully attributed: it refuses to act without a badge that resolves under the site policy; every action lands in the ledger with SSO + name + time.
- Bounded blast radius: worst case is stock counts driven low - visible in the ledger and reversible with an adjust.
- Physically rate-limited: it serves a touch screen on the shop floor; nothing enumerable, nothing worth scraping.
Any future open-write endpoint must clear the same bar.