>>>>So has anybody seen anything like this? Any thoughts about how to nail it? What else do you need to know?
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>>>Are these formsets or proper forms?
>>>My long ago experience with converted projects and formsets was not good.
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>>Forms. We wrote a custom tool that gives us a jumpstart on the conversion. It handles about 80% of the job, and we do the rest by hand.
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>>Tamar
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>Ouch. You say, that what is easy and fun is done by the the tool, and the hard work remains anyway.
>The good old 80/20 rule catches in.

Actually, the tool does the tedious part (creating controls and putting them on the form) and even some of the hardest parts (modifying code--the old source is pretty good about following rules that mean we can modify code with code), and leaves the interesting/challenging parts for humans.

Tamar