m2m relationship management

[Justinas Jaronis]

I'm currently developing quite complex database on Django. It seems to
be perfect for auto administrative interface etc, However because of
the complexity (just the models.py classes are about 2000 lines; There
are some objects that will have about 20+ m2m relationships) it's
completely unusable to administer such a database using current
inline implementation. I've found some information how to solve the
usability issue, by collapsing the body of all inlines:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2788143/django-admin-how-to-make-inlines-collapsible

however IMO it's too heavy to render everything on every page load. I
think the best solution would be to develop the administration view,
containing buttons (like "Many2many relationship 1", "m2m relationship
2" etc) that would dynamically load the inline via AJAX/AHAH upon the
button click.

Maybe someone has already faced this problem? I can't believe I'm the
only one :-)

Good luck,
Justinas

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Justinas Jaronis
<justinas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There
> are some objects that will have about 20+ m2m relationships

not knowing anything about your system, it might be the best solution;
but in the _vast_ majority of cases this is a signal of suboptimal
design. maybe there's some commonality that could be abstracted with
table inheritance, or generic relationships.

--
Javier

[Justinas Jaronis]

In the first place, I have no access to the database design - the
django application will be like frontend to already deployed database
with loads of information.
Furthermore I don't blame the architect for the design, because it's
just impossible to store the required information somehow else - it's
really complex scientific database. I see some perspective for
generalization, but this is out of scope of this problem and project
phase :-)

On 14 Spa, 17:39, Javier Guerra Giraldez <jav...@guerrag.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Justinas Jaronis
>