Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-26 Thread Vasanth Mohan
Hi Carlton, While django-admin-views indeed gives us the option to add custom views, it still is locked to the App/Model based organisation which reflects the DB. Moreover, it still necessitates that I build the page by hand. I'm interested to

Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Carlton Gibson
Check out Django-admin-views https://github.com/frankwiles/django-admin-views I think it needs a bit of an update for recent versions of Django (but I suspect those are minor) and o tho knit does what you’re after (or close) On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, Vasanth Mohan wrote: > Hi Igor, > >

Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Vasanth Mohan
Hi Igor, Most of my cases are for internal tools and grouping together unrelated tables as you just summarised. Some examples are, - Writing text that can need to send out to clients by triggering a predefined email templates - Creating internal forms that should be saved to multiple tables or

Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Igor Margitich
Hi Vasanth, Can you ptovide an example when do you need generic admin view? I have case where I need gather some information from different not directly related tables. I have used https://pypi.org/project/django-nonrelated-inlines/. Can't say it is exactly what I need but seems it does the job.

Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Vasanth Mohan
Hello, I'd like to gauge the general opinion of more experienced devs before starting on a project. I personally love the sheer flexibility that the django admin provides me to get started on the DB and manage the backend. I can add actions, filters and charts with just a few third-party