On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Jani Tiainen <rede...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Rather than creating individual series of events from recurring I would do a > concept called "recurring event". So it would be just a single event that is > projected to spesific days as necessary. It requires a slightly more work > but it's easier to maintain - for example entry would just state: > > recurring = True > frequence = WEEKLY > start_date = 2012-09-11 > end_date = 2012-12-01 > start_time = 09:00 > end_time = 10:00 > > Then I would roll out custom non-database concept of "calendar day" that > would be projected from database using both individual entries and recurring > entries. > > Later on it would be very easy to modify existing recurring events and for > example add cancellation of single event by creating overriding events > concept. > > This way amount of data will be kept relatively small, it's much easier to > read and modify. Of course drawback is that you need top level mechanisms to > work with single calendar entries that map to your database representation.
Great, and obvious, idea - unfortunately a bad fit. Each event needs to be an object as there are student attendance records and staff attendance records linked to each individually. I was thinking about it last night and it occurred to me that instead of using the admin interface I should just write my own form and then do the multiple object creation in the view - it makes sense to me, although I'm sure I've miffed something up. Other ideas still welcome. cheers L. -- ...we look at the present day through a rear-view mirror. This is something Marshall McLuhan said back in the Sixties, when the world was in the grip of authentic-seeming future narratives. He said, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
