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[{"user_id": 7803, "stars": [{"date_created": 1313244840.0562129, "user_id": 23352}], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313156229.676491, "message": "Just a quick topic to introduce an app we've been using a lot and figured others might find beneficial.  We call it smartmin and it is a bit like a really flexible Class based contrib.admin for your user facing models.  We use it a ton with our clients to build standard CRUD views and have found it to save us a ton of time.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857113}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313156501.7073691, "message": "And of course available in PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/smartmin/0.0.3", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857151}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313156283.2466271, "message": "It gives you views to Create, Read, Update, Delete and List your model's objects for free and also takes care of wiring in the appropriate URLs.  It also has great support for permissions and provides pretty good looking UI by default.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857117}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313156355.2478881, "message": "In any case, the source is on github, and the docs on rtd.  You can see install procedure here: http://smartmin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857123}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313156383.6234419, "message": "And see some screenshots and brief walkthrough of some of the features in the quickstart: http://smartmin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857134}, {"user_id": 1930, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313160046.5761881, "message": "Interesting;  I'll take it around the lap this weekend.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857457}, {"user_id": 1387, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313159946.982717, "message": "This looks well thought out and executed.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857443}, {"user_id": 1126, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313160734.328614, "message": "This seems pretty similar to django-frontendadmin at first glance: https://github.com/bartTC/django-frontendadmin", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857551}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313161190.4747419, "message": "Ya, looks like they have some similarities.. though we use more Class based views and configuration through objects rather than settings.py.  The goal with ours is to provide a suitable interface for clients for editing objects, without using the django-admin and while still providing the flexibility to do things in a more complicated manner.  We've used smartmin on a few different projects now with good success so thought others might find it useful.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1857611}, {"user_id": 21059, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313175449.2826419, "message": "I quite like smartmin, but I can't figure out how to override the base.html template....", "group_id": 81, "id": 1858814}, {"user_id": 7803, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313220717.6238029, "message": "Hi dsr, just set your own base.html in a template directory who's search path is before smarmin's.  IE, if you have a global template directory of just /templates, then putting a base.html there will override the smartmin one.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1863213}, {"user_id": 21059, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313241868.4727831, "message": "That's what I thought, so I tried it. Maybe it's a browser cache issue or something. I'll give it another whirl. Thanks for the hard work with smartmin, btw.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1864009}, {"user_id": 21059, "stars": [], "topic_id": 43693, "date_created": 1313274725.5794621, "message": "I can confirm that it was operator error. Thanks @nicpottier.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1866080}]