On Apr 29, 12:47 pm, Martin Tiršel <dja...@blackpage.eu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am still a newbie exploring possibilities of Django but you learn > advanced techniques often on really big applications. I have here my two > projects I want to do in Django (1. advanced eshop system and 2. > webhosting management [customer database, invoicing, webhosting settings, > trouble tickets, ...]). Django Admin can be very customized but I don't > know if it can handle such projects. I am asking this because I don't know > if I have first to go deep into Django Admin and spend some weeks > exploring and testing all of the functionality first or I should begin > with building the application from scratch the old classic way. > > Here are some examples I will need to do: > > * combine Admin pages (CRUD) with normal pages (e.g. listing of sales > summaries or another overviews [with linking to details page for example], > displaying an amount of mixed informations [combined from multiple > models], ...) > > * dynamic edit forms - e.g. customer has a product which consist from > multiple parts which can be combined. So, one customer has fieldsets A, B, > C another A, C, D . Every fieldset has some editable and some static > fields (read only). > > * advanced permissions - some employees have editing access only to some > fields in a fieldset and these not editable without permissions are > displayed only as text instead of a textfield > > I don't think that such things will be possible, but as I found yesterday, > Django Admin has wider possibilities than I expected :)
Indeed it has. The "standard" reply is "don't use the Admin." My view is "use the Admin to learn Django." E.g. you say "combine Admin pages (CRUD) with normal pages" - I am not sure exactly what you mean by "combine" but its very easy to add many other kinds of views to a Django site, happily running alongside the CUD pages [sorry, no "R" without some effort :( - I'll blog on this shortly], such as ones "displaying an amount of mixed information". Re "* dynamic edit forms" => there had just been a thread on that http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/48f243a020b244e9 . [Sidebar - wait for version 1.2 for read-only field]. Re "* advanced permissions - some employees have editing access only to some fields" => I have not done this, but would think you can do this as part of the "dynamic edit forms" (certainly permissions can be fine-grained at a row level - many topics discussing this). In short - push the limits on the Admin - it can do far more than I thought after a read through of the Django book and similar documents (you must read these first, of course!). My 2c Derek (recent Django convert) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
