first (very basic) implementation of document templates

[wipascal]

This is mainly to find out if I am going in the right direction.

Todo's for future PRs:

• add a "download zip" button which allows for downloading all the generated documents at once
• improve UI (once we get more clarity on the desired functionality)

Maybe (?):

• allow to download documents as PDFs (instead of .docx)
• limit the number of documents that is generated each time the button is saved.
  • Maybe generate the documents only if a "generate documents from template" checkbox is ticked
  • or introduce a separate button "generate documents from template"
  • or generate only a couple of samples, unless a checkbox "generate documents for all objects matching filter" is ticked

@saemideluxe What do you think?

[wipascal]

Okay, looks good to me. One thing more that just jumped to my mind: We should add a method on DocumentTemplate which accepts a Model instance and returns the correct URL. I suggest we use bread.utils.links.ModelHref to allow for a lazy object (but not for the template object itself, that should in most cases be concrete I think).

Hmm I don't understand what you mean. Could you sketch how you would want to use such a method?

[saemideluxe]

Hmm I don't understand what you mean. Could you sketch how you would want to use such a method?

Something like (names are just very long to make intent clear):

# assuming e.g. inside bread.views.ReadView or similar
employment_contract_template = DocumentTemplate.objects.get(name="Employment Contract")

return hg.DIV(
    hg.A("Download Employment Contract", href=employment_contract_template.url_for_filled_out_with(hg.C("object")))
)

Does that make sense? I expect that is how we use if most often.

[saemideluxe]

Ah, I think the new black version (now out of beta for the first time btw) has some changes.