Hi John, I built an app that basically lets you create an advanced search against a model (or related models). I am using it in production on two different applications. If you use it I would be happy to have feedback.
You can find it here: https://github.com/ckirby/django-modelqueryform Kirby On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:34:33 PM UTC-6, John Schmitt wrote: > > I have a big django project with multiple apps, models, and the models > have quite a few fields. > > A request came that asked for a page that allows the user to pick and > choose from the various fields to create their own query. > > Does any precedent for this exist? > > If I may use a car analogy, a django project that stores info on cars > complete with many types of engines, car models, interiors, entertainment > systems, and trim features. Could I create an app where a user could > arbitrarily pick and choose fields from each of those models to perform a > query on their web browser? One customer could search for cars with V8 > engines and DVD players and a different customer could search for cars with > nylon interiors, no entertainment systems and manufactured between dateA > and dateB. The key thing is that the customer gets to browse for the > available attricutes and add them to their query. > > The most obvious would be create an app that fixed every possible field > and appropriate form for each field. When a model changes and a new field > is added, simply add another field to this query app. This is what real > estate sites seem to do. I'd like to think there's a more general and > elegant way to do this. Is there a general purpose field chooser? > > At first I thought that this project would be a good starting point, > because he kind of implements spreadsheet: > > https://github.com/tmu/dimtable > > I'm not sure how I can map my problem to that potential solution. > > Discussion and wild-eyed ideas welcome. > > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/ee626ec1-f217-4b92-bc8c-a9c860ffb9ab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
