Hi, I would love to help out. Here is how I alter my satchmo store right now. I have an app called dashboard. There I have templates for "Inventory, Orders, Customer, Reports" In those templates I hard code(I know its bad) the links to different sections. I have a JS redirect in the main admin index file to me /admin/ dashboard. It works as intended but I would love to see a community effort to improve things. I am working on converting it right now to use django content types so I can dynamicly add sections and tabs. I also created a very simple Instant stats template tag that gives a tabular view of the sales for "Today,Yesterday,This Month, Last month, Year to Date, Previous year annual sales, Last year same month sales" All these code is still a big mess I need to clean it up before I could release it. (I know programmers judge by the code:):) )
If any of this would help I can get on it and clean it up. Also I use a lot of proxy models with their own admin to create/alter a different functionality provided by satchmo without altering the core code. It seem to work really well to prototype something. I can make some screenshot if it interest anyone. Let me know how to get started on it :) lzantal On Jul 16, 7:00 am, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote: > For a while, I've been thinking about Satchmo and what we need to do next to > improve it. I think from a feature perspective it matches up quite well with > many offerings. Yes, there are plenty of areas for improvement still but the > one thing that I really think we need to address is improving the ability to > manage the store. > > Right now, we just use the basic django admin with a few customizations. We > also have a few helpers like edit_inventory, export_products, > variation_manager, etc. The problem with these is that they are just not > sufficient for having a "normal" user manage the store. I also think that if > we can improve some of these things, we can hide some of the complexity of > Satchmo and gradually reveal it as people need it. It would also allow us to > customize it for our unique needs where it makes sense. > > So, what I'm proposing is to create a Satchmo management interface that is > separate from the django admin. This is sort of how LFS does it and I think > it's a good approach. > > Basically, I would create a series of views that allow things like: > - Simpler product creation > - Streamlined order processing > - Inventory management > - Basic reporting > - Customer Management > > The idea with all of these is that we would make it useful and functional > out of the gate but would make it easy for you to customize for your unique > store needs. I envision this all being views and templates without any > tables so we can rapidly iterate and improve it. As we get a couple of > functions out there, we'll get ideas to add more and improve it. The admin > interface will still be there for some things - but it will truly be for > store administration not store management. > > My questions for the group are: > 1. Does this make sense? > 2. Has anyone done past work here that might be useful for us as a starting > point? > 3. Is there anyone that's strong with UI work that would like to help with > the layout/design etc. > > The truth is, I think this could be fairly simple to get off the ground and > working and that it would go a long way towards making Satchmo more > approachable and useable. I'm excited about this idea and hope this could be > a way to get others involved in Satchmo's development. > > Thanks, > Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en.
