> On Feb 25, 2:41 pm, Paul Waldo p...@waldoware.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am brand new to Django, so forgive me if my questions are naive :-) >> >> I have read the tutorials and I'm starting my first learning >> application. This is a small time-tracking application. As you can >> imagine, the majority of the application is basic CRUD data entry. The >> other significant part is that I want to automatically create reports on >> a regular basis and email them. I have two questions: >> >> * The Admin application is great for my CRUD functionality; Django does >> a really fine job of creating this interface automatically. >> Unfortunately, using the Admin app. for data entry does not provide a >> seamless experience; the URLs are different, the look and feel is >> different, and the Admin is much more polished than my hand-crafted >> pages :-). Do people use the Admin for regular users, or do they >> duplicate all that CRUD in their own pages? Is there a way to make the >> Application/Admin more seamless? >> > > There are various options, depending on what sort of users you are > catering for: > * Extend the admin using the built-in hooks, eg using a custom form > for your model. Django renders this in exactly the same way as any > other admin form. > * Write your own views but inherit from the admin templates, to get > their look and feel. This is good if you have trusted users, but need > a bit more functionality than the admin can provide. > * Use the CRUD generic views. Best for regular users. > > >> * Is there a standard model for running automated tasks? I was thinking >> about a cron task that uses lynx or curl to call a URL that performs the >> task, but that gets kind of ugly. Is there a better way to do this? >> > > Ugly is right. Use cron by all means, but don't run the process via > the webserver. Instead, create a custom manage.py command within your > app, and get cron to call that. See the (unfortunately very basic) > documentation here: > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands/ > > -- > DR. > Excellent ideas, Daniel. I'm going to try extending the admin forms, and I'll try the manage.py command. Thanks!
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