Dmitri Fedortchenko said the following:
> Well django does recommend using the admin for everything admin-related,
> if I stop using the admin for editing an article, then I would have to
> write a whole bunch of code just to edit a single article. Suddenly the
> benefit of a unified admin interface is lost and I have to deal with
> permissions, UI, validation, forms.. it seems like a nightmare for
> something should work in the first place... ( i.e. overriding the save()
> method to add extra functionality)
>
> From the django features list:
> A dynamic admin interface: it's not just scaffolding it's the whole house
> [The philosophy here is that your site is edited by a staff, or a
> client, or maybe just you and you don't want to have to deal with
> creating backend interfaces just to manage content.]
>
> The message seems clear to me. ;)
It's not meant to do absolutely everything though - trying to hack it to
do something it doesn't is usually harder than writing a really simple
custom view :)
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