I'm pretty sure Zain has made all the inline types sortable on his admin-ui branch.
On Nov 8, 7:58 am, Tim <tonightslasts...@gmail.com> wrote: > I very much like the look of that one, but I'm not sure if it > completely fills the need I want for my own project. All of the > fields need to be quickly visible, without needing to know the > rendered name of the instance. > > Those 'new inlines' address the problem of space, but they cater to > those who already know what they're looking for. My coworkers need to > constantly look over lists of location addresses, and require that all > the fields are displayed for quick scanning. In other words, the > users of this particular admin page will rely very heavily on it to > show them all the data at all times. > > Another improvement to inlines in general would be to make them > sortable. There are some Javascript enhancements out there for > sorting HTML tables by any column, by clicking on its <th> tag. The > 'new inlines' don't really allow for this possibility. > > (I did make a simple app out of the > TiledInline:http://code.google.com/p/django-tiledinline/) > > Again, thanks for the feedback! I should play more with those new > inlines. I really do think that there is potential there, as with > most of the wonderful things that come from GSoC. > > Tim > > On Nov 7, 5:23 am, Renato Garcia Pedigoni <renatopedig...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Tim > > > Wouldn't be the 'new inlines' [1] of GSoC admin improvements a nice > > approach? The height is fixed, no waste of space... And no need to have > > blank fieldsets for new objects (the 'extra' inline option). > > > But anyway sometimes Stacked and Tabular just don't fit, it's nice to have > > another way to show related objects. > > > [1]http://media.wilsonminer.com/images/django/related-objects-stacked.gif > > > Renato > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Tim <tonightslasts...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Nov 6, 6:20 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This sounds interesting, but I'm having a hard time visualizing it, > > > > any chance you could provide some screenshots? > > > > Absolutely. I wrote up a blog post about it today: > > >http://mangos.dontexist.net/blog/?p=352 > > > > There are a couple of screenshots listed there. > > > > I truly find this most useful when dealing with TextFields, like I > > > mention in the blog post, because if you get 5 or 6 of those together, > > > they get really wide really fast, and neither the Stacked nor Tabular > > > really suits the situation, in terms of usability. > > > > > As for whether it > > > > should be included I'd say the first step is to get it out there in an > > > > app anyone can download, as things like this can live outside of > > > > Django. > > > > Yeah, with the blog post there is a zip file download. It's not > > > really in an "app" form, but that can be done fairly easily. I shall > > > put one together, for the sake of getting it working as close to zero- > > > config as possible. > > > > Thanks much for the reply. Glad to hear some interest. > > > > Tim > > > > > Second, if you are serious about getting this included in > > > > Django I'd file a bug and upload a patch, it's much easier to discuss > > > > these things when there's something concrete on the table. > > > > > Alex > > > > > -- > > > > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your > > > > right to say it." -- Voltaire > > > > "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero > > > > "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you > > > > want" -- Me > > > -- > > Atenciosamente, > > Renato Garcia Pedigoni > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
