Help: Should I use Admin site for everything?

[yummy_droid]

Hi,

I want to create a inventory management site, which will be used by
employees. All will need logins to work in the site. I was wondering
if its good practice to create a whole site based within the supplied
Admin site in django?

I really like to look and helper items in the admin site, (e.g. date/
time picker for date/time fields, "save/save and continue/save and add
another" buttons, etc.). I tried using the django forms module and it
didn't have any date-time pickers, etc.

I may need to add some specific things to tailor some pages for
specific things, but mostly, it will just deal with data entry into
the models.

The main thing I forsee is creating custom reports/graphs. Is there a
way to add pages to the Admin interface so that there a standard menu
list of all possible things (adding items, dashboard link, searching,
etc) that we want to specify when someone logs in?

Thanks,

Yusuf

[Ales Zoulek]

It realy depends on the level of customisation you'll need.

From my experience there are always new and new feature requests and it forces you to hack default admin more and more. And in one point you'll see that creating own app would be easier.

And don't forget that admin is supposed to be used by "trusted users". http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter17/

That may not been always the case in bigger systems.

Regards,

Ales
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[Yusuf Mohsinally]

thanks. is there a way for me to easily include the different things
from the admin site, like "history", form field widgets (date picker),
etc. in my own app?

[Ales Zoulek]

I'm not sure about the history but in general, it should. You can import and reuse any form widget admin defines.

A.

Dne 17.12.2009 12:36 "Yusuf Mohsinally" <yus...@gmail.com> napsal/a:

thanks. is there a way for me to easily include the different things
from the admin site, like "history", form field widgets (date picker),
etc. in my own app?

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ales Zoulek <ales....@gmail.com> wrote: > It realy depends...

[Sid]

There are some audit trail stuff available for Django

http://code.google.com/p/fullhistory/
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AuditTrail

-Sid