auto-generated template for generic views

[Rachel Willmer]

I want to use the generic view mechanism to add/change/delete but I
don't want to have to write my own form template for each page.

I'd like it to work just like the admin interface does. Is it
possible/sensible to hook into the admin code which seems to use
add_stage/change_stage to automatically generate the templates? Or is
there a better way of doing this?

Any pointers welcome...
Rachel

[Adrian Holovaty]

That's a really interesting idea. I think it'd be better to
"statically" generate the templates a single time, rather than have
Django create the templates automatically, because the former would
allow people to custom the templates' look and feel. Maybe a
"django-admin.py formtemplate app" command? What do you think?

Adrian

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[Carlo C8E Miron]

2005/9/4, Adrian Holovaty <holo...@gmail.com>:

> That's a really interesting idea. I think it'd be better to
> "statically" generate the templates a single time, rather than have
> Django create the templates automatically, because the former would
> allow people to custom the templates' look and feel. Maybe a
> "django-admin.py formtemplate app" command? What do you think?

A big +1 from me!

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[Rachel Willmer]

> That's a really interesting idea. I think it'd be better to
> "statically" generate the templates a single time, rather than have
> Django create the templates automatically, because the former would
> allow people to custom the templates' look and feel. Maybe a
> "django-admin.py formtemplate app" command? What do you think?

The ideal would be to have both. :-)

Having an auto-generated on-the-fly template gets you up and going
faster and if you didn't actually need to do any customisation, ;
being able to statically generate the template once would be better
for later customisation...

I'd be delighted with either!

[Rachel Willmer]

Following up on my original question, now I've read a bit more about
it, the answer is of course to just use the admin interface. :-)

If you run django-admin.py adminindex <app>, it will auto-generate a
copy of the guts of the index page needed to display the admin
interface. You can copy that into your template directory to over-ride
the inbuilt one, as described in
<http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial2/#customize-the-admin-look-and-feel>

Then you can modify that as you wish...

Rachel

[Johan]

Also a big +1. using django-admin.py to generate the template is not
only great for generating a standard template, but also an ideal tool
for people like me who learn best by example.

Looking forward for this feature.

[Boffbowsh]

It's there already Johan, it's not something to look forward to

[Andreas]

Boffbowsh wrote:
> It's there already Johan

How does it work? As far as I can see it's already possible to create
an admin-like index view. Auto-generated templates for the CRUD generic
views would be extremely useful, but I don't see how you would create
them with the current Django version.

Andreas

[Johan]

Indeed for the admin index it's there. But using django-admin.py there
is no option. Or must I use something else?