DocType - achillesrasquinha/frappe-noob GitHub Wiki

frappe provides you DocTypes, an object to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) functionalities to your data. A DocType is an object which defines your data. Each DocType maps to a single table within your database with the name tab[DocType Name].

• Each DocType inherits from a parent Python class frappe.model.document.Document.
• Each Name field corresponds to a database field.
• You can also query directly into the database using our frappe.db instance.

To create a new DocType, head over to your desk and create a DocType as follows:

A DocType is created within a Python module. On clicking Save, head over to project folder and you'll see the following:

>>> doc = frappe.new_doc('Person')