Commit bacb38c9 authored by Petrus J.v.Rensburg's avatar Petrus J.v.Rensburg

Merge branch 'master' of github.com:mrjoes/flask-admin into examples

parents a837b83e 9208f58d
......@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Out-of-the-box, Flask-Admin plays nicely with various ORM's, including
It also boasts a simple file management interface and a `redis client <http://redis.io/>`_ console.
Several usage examples are included in the */examples* folder. Feel free to add your own examples, or improve some of the existing ones, and submit them as a *pull-request*.
Several usage examples are included in the */examples* folder. Please feel free to add your own examples, or improve
on some of the existing ones, and then submit them via GitHub as a *pull-request*.
The biggest feature of Flask-Admin is flexibility. It aims to provide a set of simple tools that can be used for
building admin interfaces of any complexity. So, to start off with you can create a very simple application in no time,
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-------------
Flask-Admin is extensively documented, you can find all of the documentation at `http://readthedocs.org/docs/flask-admin <http://readthedocs.org/docs/flask-admin>`_.
The docs are auto-generated for the *.rst* files in the */doc* folder. So if you come across any errors, or think of anything that should be included, then please make the changes and submit them as a *pull-request*.
The docs are auto-generated from the *.rst* files in the */doc* folder. So if you come across any errors, or
if you think of anything else that should be included, then please make the changes and submit them as a *pull-request*.
Installation
------------
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cd flask-admin
nosetests
You should see output such as::
You should see output similar to::
...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 41 tests in 2.092s
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......@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changelog
1.0.7
-----
Full change log and feature walkthrough can be found `here <http://mrjoes.github.io/2013/03/22/flask-admin-107.html>`_.
Full change log and feature walkthrough can be found `here <http://mrjoes.github.io/2013/10/21/flask-admin-107.html>`_.
Highlights:
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Database backends
=================
The purpose of Flask-Admin is to help you manage your data. For this, it needs some database backend in order to be
able to access that data in the first place. At present, there are four different backends for you to choose
from, depending on which database you would like to use for your application.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
......@@ -8,3 +12,17 @@ Database backends
db_mongoengine
db_peewee
db_pymongo
If you don't know where to start, but you're familiar with relational databases, then you should probably look at using
`SQLAlchemy <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/>`_. It is a full-featured toolkit, with support for SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL,
Oracle and MS-SQL amongst others. It really comes into its own once you have lots of data, and a fair amount of
relations between your data models.
If you're looking for something simpler, or your data models are reasonably self-contained, then
`MongoEngine <http://mongoengine.org/>`_ could be a better option. It is a python wrapper around the popular
*NoSQL* database called `MongoDB <http://www.mongodb.org/>`_.
Of course, if you feel that there's an awesome database wrapper that is missing from the list above, we'd greatly
appreciate it if you could write the plugin for it and submit it as a pull request. A special section of these docs
are dedicated to helping you through this process. See :doc:`model_guidelines`.
Form rendering rules
--------------------
====================
Before version 1.0.7, all model backends were rendering the creation and editing forms
using the special Jinja2 macro, which was looping over WTForms form object fields and displaying
them one by one.
Before version 1.0.7, all model backends were rendering the *create* and *edit* forms
using a special Jinja2 macro, which was looping over the fields of a WTForms form object and displaying
them one by one. This works well, but it is difficult to customize.
Starting from version 1.0.7, Flask-Admin supports so called form rendering rules.
Starting from version 1.0.7, Flask-Admin supports form rendering rules, to give you fine grained control of how
the forms for your modules should be displayed.
Idea is pretty simple: instead of having non-configurable macro that renders the form,
have a set of rules that tell Flask-Admin how form should be rendered. As an extension
of the idea, rules can output HTML, call Jinja2 macros, render fields and so on.
The basic idea is pretty simple: the customizable rendering rules replace a static macro, so that you can tell
Flask-Admin how each form should be rendered. As an extension, however, the rendering rules also let you do a
bit more: You can use them to output HTML, call Jinja2 macros, render fields and so on.
Essentially, form rendering rules abstract form rendering away from the form definition. And it
no longer matters what is sequence of the fields in the form.
Essentially, form rendering rules abstract the rendering, so that it becomes separate from the form definition. So,
for example, it no longer matters in which sequence yur form fields are defined.
Getting started
---------------
To start using form rendering rules, you need to put list of form field names into `form_create_rules`
property of your administrative view::
To start using the form rendering rules, put a list of form field names into the `form_create_rules`
property one of your admin views::
class RuleView(sqla.ModelView):
form_create_rules = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name')
In this example, only three fields will be rendered and `email` field will be above other two fields.
Whenever Flask-Admin sees string as a value in `form_create_rules`, it automatically assumes that it is
form field reference and created :class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.Field` class instance.
Whenever Flask-Admin sees a string value in `form_create_rules`, it automatically assumes that it is a
form field reference and creates a :class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.Field` class instance for that field.
Lets say we want to display 'Foobar' text between `email` and `first_name` fields. This can be accomplished by
using :class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.Text` class::
Lets say we want to display some text between the `email` and `first_name` fields. This can be accomplished by
using the :class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.Text` class::
from flask.ext.admin.form import rules
class RuleView(sqla.ModelView):
form_create_rules = ('email', rules.Text('Foobar'), 'first_name', 'last_name')
Flask-Admin comes with few built-in rules that can be found in :mod:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules` module:
Built-in rules
--------------
Flask-Admin comes with few built-in rules that can be found in the :mod:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules` module:
======================================================= ========================================================
Form Rendering Rule Description
======================================================= ========================================================
:class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.BaseRule` All rules derive from this class
:class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.NestedRule` Allows rule nesting, useful for HTML containers
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:class:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules.FieldSet` Renders form header and child rules
======================================================= ========================================================
Further reading
---------------
For additional documentation, check :mod:`flask.ext.admin.form.rules` module source code (it is quite short) and
look at the `forms` example.
look at the `forms example <https://github.com/mrjoes/flask-admin/tree/master/examples/forms>`_ on GitHub.
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localization
tips
db
form_rules
model_guidelines
form_rules
api/index
changelog
renamed_columns
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};
};
// Add live event handler
$('.fa-remove-field').live('click', function(e) {
// Add on event handler
$('body').on('click', '.fa-remove-field' , function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var form = $(this).closest('.fa-inline-field');
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