Admin tool in order to get custom reports. The objective of django-qbe is provide a assited and interactive way of making complex queries with no technical knowledge (or minimal) to get custom reports from the objects of Django models. Based on QBE proposal from IBM®, django-qbe is intended to remove the limitations of Django QuerySets objects and to use the whole expresive power of the subjacent SQL.
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Using the Python Package Index (PyPI_) and easy_install script:
$ easy_install django_qbe
Or through pip:
$ pip install django_qbe
But you also can download the django_qbe directory using git:
$ git clone git://github.com/versae/qbe.git $ cp -r qbe/django_qbe /path/to/your/project
Adding to the project settings:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( # [...] django builtins applications 'django_qbe', # [...] Any other application )
And adding the urlconf in your project urls.py:
# qbe url(r'^qbe/', include('django_qbe.urls')),
You must not forgive link or copy the django_qbe/media/django_qbe directory in your project media directory:
$ ln -s django_qbe/media/django_qbe /path/to/your/project/media/
That's all. Then you can access to http://host:port/qbe However, you can add a link from your admin page changing the admin index template fo your AdminSite:
class AdminSite(admin.AdminSite): index_template = "qbe_index.html"
Or adding in your custom admin index template the next javascript:
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% url qbe_js %}"></script>
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/versae/qbe
The next lines show de available settings and its default values.
Enable autocompletion tool (work in progress, not enabled yet):
QBE_AUTOCOMPLETE = True
Enable an Exhibit faceted navigation for results (not yet implemented):
QBE_EXHIBIT = False
Admin module name to add admin urls in results:
QBE_ADMIN = "admin"
Set your own admin site if it's different to usual django.contrib.admin.site:
QBE_ADMIN_SITE ="admin.admin_site"
Function to control to users with access to QBE:
QBE_ACCESS_FOR = lambda user: user.is_staff
Path to QBE formats export file, in order to add custom export formats:
QBE_FORMATS_EXPORT = "qbe_formats"
Free software distributted under the MIT license.
Javier de la Rosa (@versae) and other contributors
With the funding of Cultureplex, the Cultural Complexity Lab @ UWO.