Hi all, I've started to play around with django just a few weeks ago. I'm a newbie at python and, of course, django, but I have some experience with database systems, especially RDBMSs. It seems to me that django (together with python) represents the solution to what they tried to do with the 4GL languages for database applications a while back (4D, Ingres 4GL, that Oracle stuff on top of PL/SQL, etc.). The modelling capabilities of django together with the automatic admin interface definitely seems like a solid approach. Most of those types of database applications that the 4GL languages were aimed at consists of fairly simple view/interfaces (but a lot of them) and then a few more complicated ones that cannot be automatically produced. In light of this, I'm going to use the django admin interface for the simpler objects, and only implement the user interface for some of the complicated ones (I'm implementing a timesheet system).
However, when poking around in the documentation, source code, and news groups, I cannot find a way to copy the admin template(s) for generic views (which BTW is also a brilliant idea) except for the base.html and the base_site.html as described in the documentation. It seems to me that the templates are mostly produced on-the-fly, i.e. dynamically. I've also found that the new branch 'new-admin' seems to extract these dynamically produced templates into separate admin/templates (which also seems like a very good idea). Now, from my newbie point of view, getting into the model philosophy and using the admin interface was pretty OK (= 'was done in a reasonable amount of time') given the documentation at hand. I've even mastered extending the auth_users by subclassing, works like a charm, and implemented some ForeignKey(edit_inline) objects. However, the templates are giving me a hard time now. It would be really neat to have the admin templates as a starting point (learn-by-example kind of thing). Finally, the questions: 1) is there any way that the admin templates could be extracted/visualized somehow from the admin interface, like "import django...; for t in templates: print template" or something to that effect? 2) Or, are the new-admin templates ready to rock-and-roll, and how do I accomplish that then (unfortenatly I'm new to subversion as well, used CVS for ages)? Greatful for any insight... /LarS
