I have a big django project with multiple apps, models, and the models have quite a few fields.
A request came that asked for a page that allows the user to pick and choose from the various fields to create their own query. Does any precedent for this exist? If I may use a car analogy, a django project that stores info on cars complete with many types of engines, car models, interiors, entertainment systems, and trim features. Could I create an app where a user could arbitrarily pick and choose fields from each of those models to perform a query on their web browser? One customer could search for cars with V8 engines and DVD players and a different customer could search for cars with nylon interiors, no entertainment systems and manufactured between dateA and dateB. The key thing is that the customer gets to browse for the available attricutes and add them to their query. The most obvious would be create an app that fixed every possible field and appropriate form for each field. When a model changes and a new field is added, simply add another field to this query app. This is what real estate sites seem to do. I'd like to think there's a more general and elegant way to do this. Is there a general purpose field chooser? At first I thought that this project would be a good starting point, because he kind of implements spreadsheet: https://github.com/tmu/dimtable I'm not sure how I can map my problem to that potential solution. Discussion and wild-eyed ideas welcome. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/20141113193356.GA22840%40mediapc.snapdragonfly.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
