Hello all,
I've been making great strides with my application since returning
from the land of Pylons. Given that the app is all about data entry
I've taken the customise-the-admin-app approach to things and made the
switch to newforms-admin this morning.
So far things are working: data is being entered and I've even got
things rendering into ODT and DOCX.
I've now got a little stuck, however. I have three models: Report,
Section and Pictures. Sections are pieces of boilerplate which are
added to a report and pictures are added to a section. Currently
sections are edited inline with reports and pictures are edited inline
with sections.
What I would like to do is allow users to add sections and pictures to
a report at the same time (effectively nested inlines).
In models:
class Report(...):
....fields...
class Section(...):
report = ForeignKey(Report, ...)
class Picture(...):
section = ForeignKey(Section, ...)
I'm trying to decide on the best way to do this. I've come up with a
few possible options and would appreciate any pointers about which
would be the best (or worst).
1. Create a dynamic newform.
This way gets all of the required fields onto the screen but I'd like
to be able to group things in fieldsets and do non-simple layouts. I
tried to create a template but ran into trouble as I didn't know the
number of fields or how to test the name of the fields being looped
over in order to group them.
2. Create the template by hand.
I can just pass my report instance to the template and create the form
manually but then I lose the magic of validation (which would probably
mean I'd end up using formencode or similar).
3. Add a pop up to the current template.
This would allow the user to create the section and then open a pop up
to do the pictures. There are problems with ensuring the section is
valid and saved first, however.
4. Mystery fourth option that I should have been using all along.
I don't know much about this one; anyone any ideas?
If any one's had to implement something similar then I'd appreciate
any advice. Any thoughts or ideas would also be gratefully received.
Regards,
Felix
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