On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM, mike<mkimm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm new to django, somewhere between a newbie and novice :-).
>
> I'm looking for a query builder front end...middleware or app, and
> thought I'd ask if anyone knows of such a django app or middleware.
> I'm trying to avoid re-inventing the wheel, but I'm willing write one
> if one doesn't exist.
>
> I've found several standalone apps like SQLeonardo and Navicat, which
> look nice, but I'd really like something more integrated within a
> django environment.  Bottom line is that eventual end users need an
> efficient way to perform queries much like MS Access allows.
>
> I've started on a query builder app, but it is becoming a substantial
> project by itself (over and above the current project's scope). If a
> query builder app is of any interest to others, I would welcome any
> input, guidance and/or help. So far, I've taken the approach as to
> enumerate tables/fields from existing models within the current django
> project, rather than enumerating tables/fields directly from the
> database. So far so good, but building a user-friendly interface seems
> to be the most challenging part, and I'm hoping jquery will fill this
> void.
>
> I'm very interested to hear what anyone else thinks of this concept.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Kimmick
>
> >
>

I've written an app called django-filter which seems like it may be
what you want: http://github.com/alex/django-filter/tree/master .
Here's an example of it in use with a ticketing appliation:
http://imgur.com/BPpmf.png

Alex

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