Comments on: A Django Killer App – Web Table Data http://coderseye.com/2006/a-django-killer-app-web-table-data.html Programming is passion made real Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:54:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: naisioxerloro http://coderseye.com/2006/a-django-killer-app-web-table-data.html#comment-223 naisioxerloro Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:52:53 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2006/a-django-killer-app-web-table-data.html#comment-223 Hi. Good design, who make it? Hi.
Good design, who make it?

]]> By: Alex V. Koval http://coderseye.com/2006/a-django-killer-app-web-table-data.html#comment-222 Alex V. Koval Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:25:59 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2006/a-django-killer-app-web-table-data.html#comment-222 I am switching to Django, and love automated interface and the way it goes. In fact, for my own admin applications inside of Zope, I wrote a "table" which have cross-related but a little different set of functions (http://dev.zwarehouse.org/browser/projects/HTMLTableZWAK/trunk) This HTMLTable works with any SQL, but not with Django ORM, so may be I will either rewirte it or try to extend Django admin to that direction. Exactly what I am missing now in automated admin: 1. Ability to specify own 'actions' to apply to set of results (selected on page, or to complete all results). This usually means deletion of a set, import, export, and some very custom actions like (ex: subscribe/unsubscribe etc which are custom for application) 2. Ability to change fields listed by admin for a session (columns on screen) 3. Ability to have 'function' fields where field is a result of some external function work for a field. This allows doing (slow) sub-queries or special data formatting. Sooner or later, such kind of object will allow to build a full-functional admin interfaces. As for now, admin only allows very basic editing of object related data, you can not build a complete admin application on that. I am switching to Django, and love automated interface and the way it goes. In fact, for my own admin applications inside of Zope, I wrote a “table” which have cross-related but a little different set of functions (http://dev.zwarehouse.org/browser/projects/HTMLTableZWAK/trunk)

This HTMLTable works with any SQL, but not with Django ORM, so may be I will either rewirte it or try to extend Django admin to that direction.

Exactly what I am missing now in automated admin:
1. Ability to specify own ‘actions’ to apply to set of results (selected on page, or to complete all results). This usually means deletion of a set, import, export, and some very custom actions like (ex: subscribe/unsubscribe etc which are custom for application)
2. Ability to change fields listed by admin for a session (columns on screen)
3. Ability to have ‘function’ fields where field is a result of some external function work for a field. This allows doing (slow) sub-queries or special data formatting.

Sooner or later, such kind of object will allow to build a full-functional
admin interfaces. As for now, admin only allows very basic editing of object related data, you can not build a complete admin application on that.

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