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On Sunday, September 9, 2012 8:46:10 AM UTC-6, jondykeman wrote:
>
> Also, I saw on your github that you are looking for choices support. 
>
> Just to give my insight I have implemented the attached for adding choices.
>
> It is ajax via a modal that pre-populates existing options and allows for 
> creation and deletion of options for that field on the fly.
>
> JD 
>
> On Sunday, September 9, 2012 8:37:48 AM UTC-6, jondykeman wrote:
>>
>> Timothy - I am implementing something similar (Model GUI.png attached) 
>> that is within a larger structure that not only generates models.py, but 
>> registers them to the admin, builds the modelforms, and generates JS logic 
>> etc.
>>
>> Rather than such a thing being useful for developers I have found it 
>> great to be able to use non-programmers to basically build the first 70% of 
>> apps I work on.
>>
>> Also, fyi - Mezzanine comes with something similar (also attached), but 
>> more dynamic in the sense that the models are never actually written out - 
>> they are stored in a table, the forms are rendered off the table, and the 
>> information is saved FK to the field in a separate table.
>>
>> Let me know if you want to discuss what we each have done a little more 
>> to see if we can learn anything from each other's experiences.
>>
>> JD
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, September 8, 2012 8:31:00 PM UTC-6, Alec Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Kurtis: That looks very interesting; just finished reading it. 
>>>
>>> I wouldn't recommend this for Timothy though; it looks like something 
>>> which will require a large team to develop. 
>>>
>>> Maybe submit it as a project proposal to Canonical? 
>>>
>>> Or post on Django-Dev [and here] to see if you can get a large + 
>>> skilled enough team to build such a system. 
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis....@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote: 
>>> > You could take it a few steps farther and reproduce some work done by 
>>> a 
>>> > doctor(now) I used to go to school with. 
>>> > 
>>> > http://knoesis.wright.edu/research/srl/projects/mobicloud/ 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez <
>>> jav...@guerrag.com> 
>>> > wrote: 
>>> >> 
>>> >> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Timothy Clemans 
>>> >> <timothy...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>>> >> > I've developed a GUI for creating models, see 
>>> >> > https://github.com/timothyclemans/django-admin-models-editor 
>>> >> > 
>>> >> > Would this be helpful for developers? Would it be useful for you? 
>>> Should 
>>> >> > I 
>>> >> > keep developing it? What features would you like to see added? 
>>> >> 
>>> >> personally, i much prefer the reverse approach:  i write the models, 
>>> >> and a tool (ie. django-extensions) generates a graphical 
>>> >> representation. 
>>> >> 
>>> >> pros: 
>>> >>  - the final models are exactly what i want them to be.  even if the 
>>> >> graphical tool doesn't support some obscure Django feature, i can 
>>> >> still use it; it's just not shown graphically. 
>>> >> 
>>> >>  - i don't have to learn a different (graphical) language 
>>> >> 
>>> >>  - i keep fluent in the real Django language, so i don't have to 
>>> >> relearn it when for any reason i don't have to use that tool. 
>>> >> 
>>> >> cons: 
>>> >>   - less sexy than not writing code 
>>> >> 
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