are you planning on open sourcing this? if so I'd be glad to help as I have a similar app for a client.
On 31/05/2006, at 6:53 AM, Scott Finnie wrote: > > Looking for some advice on how to handle my little problem, all help > gratefully appreciated. > > Apologies it's quite long. > > Story thus: > > I need to build an application for holding a simple inventory of > components in the IT estate: servers, applications, network switches, > etc. They all have a core set of common attributes (e.g. identifier), > while there are also attributes specific to the class of node (e.g. IP > address for hardware devices). > > A classic case for subtyping; except (1) it's not yet supported, > and (2) > the list of types needs to be extensible at run time. > > So I have a 5 class model: component, component type, property, > property > type, and value. Components are modelled as instances of component > type > (i.e. each component is instance of exactly 1 component type). Each > Component type defines 0 or more properties; each property is of > exactly > one property type. Each component has a value for each property > defined > by its component type. > > (Hope that makes sense, it's a lot easier as a picture). > > This all works fine, except of course adding components in the admin > interface is not intuitive at all (since their properties are shown on > separate pages). > > Now the pattern I have is basically the same as the model for data > models (table has many columns, each of a type; row has value for each > column). So in a sense I'm repeating a pattern already known to > Django. > > Which circuitously brings me to the questions: > > - is there a way to get the admin interface to generate a page with > fields for all the right component fields depending on its type? > - I'd like to use the django field types as my property types - > can I > query this list programmatically? > > Apologies for long post, thanks for any help. > > - S. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
