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Read-only model views are a great addition to the Django admin -- I've been watching that PR for a long time, glad to see it land. This will make it a lot easi
by theptip 8y ago
Read-only model views are a great addition to the Django admin -- I've been watching that PR for a long time, glad to see it land.
This will make it a lot easier to build internal admin dashboards that are safe to share with non-privileged users like support staff.
- keshab 8y agoI have seen a bastardized version of Django admin used as a quite sophisticated dashboard. This new addition will make it even easier to hack together things like that in a very short time.
- dopeboy 8y agoThis is a surprisingly pretty common practice. I know people, even at Google, who want the ease of CMS but additional control.
- paganel 8y agoOne of my first Django projects was to “bastardize” its admin into a Lead/Opportunity management system for a mortgage broker, back in the version 0.96 days. I know that monkey-patching is now frowned upon and reguarded as “the work of the devil” but it really helped me get the job done for that project in a pretty reasonable amount of time. I hope dynamic programming makes a come-back.
- mrfusion 8y agoThere were always ways to get read only in the admin. Just not nicely. It shouldn’t have been holding you back though.
- CJST_ 8y agoI've been looking forward to this as well. A lot of developers underestimate the time it takes to build CMS and resource dashboards (even small ones).