Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar@maxnm.com> writes:
Simon Michael wrote:
Flat Database (was ListMate) is just what I need to whip up an interface for non-technical administrators - thanks. So I migrated two data tables ("workshops" & "registrations") from gadfly to flatdb instances using the CSV import feature, and the admin interface is working fine.
I wrote flat database because I wanted some features ListMate didn't have and didn't want ZClasses. I basically copied the structure from ListMate, so it's probably not the best design possible for ZPatterns. So (1) may not be possible with the current code.
Itamar, thanks for your suggestions on this. I never got it working. Frustrated by a period of intense Zope Developer Pain I fell back on.. you've guessed it.. my favorite hammer. For this application I found that a zwiki page containing a CSV table makes a micro-db that's relatively easy to administer & work with (and it's almost editable with MS Excel). I made a support method for doing queries: http://zwiki.org/QueryCsv Question for the list: is this nuts ? I somehow doubt it would pass the ACID test, but zope's transactions help and at least for this app (small data, low load, mostly appending) it seems to have worked well. -Simon