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Tracking changes to Django Model instances

When you create or modify an object instance in Django's admin, a changelog entry is created. This is really nice for fairly obvious reasons.

However my model's instances created by a normal user outside of the admin interface. No changelog is recorded to note its creation (not a huge issue) but I would like to track edits the user makes.

I also want to show the user this full log (user+admin edits) in the frontend so I need a way to pull the changelog out.

My question: how? Is there a one-line switch I can flick to enable full logging or do I have to dig in and do something on my user's edit form logic?

+2  A: 

django-reversion is an app designed to help with that.

Ofri Raviv  2010-02-25 15:09:24
I haven't actually used this solution, but can you actually get a changelog from django-reversion? +1 anyway because I think it still might meet Oli's needs.
Van Gale  2010-02-25 17:31:04
This is by far the simplest method. It has amazing and very pythonic methods of binding on to track changes which fit my style perfectly. I'm sure I'll find a way to extract the list of changes!
Oli  2010-02-26 11:33:16
take a look at admin.py history_view
Ofri Raviv  2010-02-26 12:48:41

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