Hi all, I really like how the admin interface does a lot of the work for me in developing a site with basic CRUD functions, and a few free bonuses like pagination and list filtering.
I agree with all the comments on #820 <https://code.djangoproject.com/ ticket/820> requesting this feature (as well as the "view" permission which goes with it). This ticket and several others were closed because a design decision has been made that the admin interface is for admins only, and such a feature is out of scope. A lot of people believe that it should be in scope. Therefore I would like to politely request a reconsideration of this decision. There are a few very simple things that Django could do to make this much easier: * a simple way (e.g. a switch) to make AdminChangeForm or fieldset.html produce all fields as read-only, without including them in CustomAdminForm.readonly_fields; (1-2 lines) * a way to override the default template selection on ModelAdmin.render_change_form (1 line) * an easy way to add URLs to AdminSite.get_urls (5 lines if intergrated? currently requires about 20 lines of external code for a generic solution) * an easy way to override the buttons rendered by the submit_row template tag, such as wrapping it in a {% block submit_block %} in change_form.html (currently requires copying the whole of change_form.html to make this change) In total the (generic) solution requires a few hundred lines of code, mainly because those features are not present, and would be about 20 lines of code if they were. Thanks for your consideration, Cheers, Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
