On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Micah Carrick <mi...@greentackle.com> wrote: > I have an application which handles a typical "checkout" process for an > e-commerce website. Orders from online customers end up in several models [... snip complex problem ...]
> Anybody have any tips, links to articles, etc. that > might help me research the best approach for this project? Yes: don't use the admin for this. Really, I know it's tempting because the admin gives you like 50% of what you want for free. But trust me when I tell you that if you go down the path of trying to kludge the admin into supporting your custom workflow you will be very unhappy. You'll get to 90% very quickly, and then you'll spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to close the final gap. You never quite will, and your app won't "feel" right. Sooner or later you'll give up and write custom views from scratch, throwing away all that hard work. Really: I've seen this happen more times than I can count. Don't go down this path. Just write custom views. Try out some apps that reproduce certain admin features -- apps like django-tables (https://github.com/miracle2k/django-tables), django-filter (https://github.com/alex/django-filter), django-pagination (https://github.com/ericflo/django-pagination), and django.contrib.formwizard or perhaps django-formwizard (https://github.com/stephrdev/django-formwizard). They might save you a bit of time, but you'll save the most time by not trying to force the admin into doing something it's not good at. Jacob -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
