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Django: How Add Static Files

Readed all these topic http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=django.views.static.serve And it not helped :( OS: Windows XP Python: 2.7 Django: 1.2.3 Media in D:\bugtracker\static With files: docicons-note.gif style.css In settings.py i set: MEDIA_ROOT = 'D:/bugtracker/static/' MEDIA_URL = '/static/' In urls.py i set: urlpatterns = pa...

Where can I find the django.contrib.admin tests?

Hi, I've written a custom admin filter, now I'm looking for tests of the builtin filterspecs...where can I find those? A jmoritz@laptop:~/workspace/django/django$ grep -ir testcase . | grep -ir admin returned only the admindocs tests... ...

Facebook connect button

Hi folks, I can't seem to find how to generate the classic Facebook Connect button: all I can find how to generate is the following: I'm using the documentation here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web Any ideas? :) ...

django newbie - creating fixtures data from manually entered data

I have finally got my admin part of my django site working. I am now beginning the tedious part of manually entering the initial data into the database. Obviously, I want this to be a one time affair. Can anyone suggest to me how I can create fixtures data from my manually entered data, so that I can reload the data (automatically?) wh...

Django Admin: Add TinyMCE to particular TextField only?

Hello, I have set up TinyMCE to work with the Admin panel (as per the instructions in the Django Docs http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AddWYSIWYGEditor ) The problem is that I have Inlines and other text areas within my model for which I don't want TinyMCE to render Does anyone know how to set TinyMCE to only load for particular fiel...

Best practices with Facebook Connect logout?

Hi folks, I'm building a web app with Django using Facebook authentication. Now I have encountered a problem with the logout. Do developers usually hide the default logout link? It is quite tricky coming up with the logic of implementing a logout while a user is connected to a facebook acount, which is still logged in. Any ideas?...

django : unique name for object within foreign-key set

I'm trying to upload files for an article model. Since an object can have multiple images, I'm using a foreign-key from file model to my article model. However, I want all the files to have unique titles. Herez the code snippet. class Article(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=64) class Files(models.Model): titl...

django admin Add custom button + custom form

Hi all, I want to add a custom button near 'Add model_name'. When i click on the newly created button i should like to show a custom form where I cans elect a model out of a select box. When i click on save I want to save this model and chance some parameters so it's a 'add' but without selecting all options again. I give a clear exampl...

Django's I18N with third-party apps

I have a Django project which uses django-tagging and is supposed to run in German. So I looked into the sources and found that django-tagging does indeed use gettext_lazy and is thus completely translatable. However, there are no translations available in the package. So I assume there must be a way for me to translate it from within my...

Django: most efficient way to query many records?

Hello, I have a table with a few thousands records (products). Each product has a 4 different categories: CAT1 CAT2 CAT3 CAT4 I wonder if is there a method, or what is the best practice, to dynamically retrive the available categories based on the categories already selected (using Ajax). Example: if CAT1 = green all the products wit...

Re-using set of model fields in Django

My site has two types of users; customers and suppliers. I have ended up with the following class structure: class Customer(models.Model): # stuff specific to customers class Supplier(models.Model): # stuff specific to suppliers class Profile(models.Model): # returned by Django's User.get_profile() user = models.ForeignKe...

auto populate when syncdb with fixture for django-site

i want to populate django_site table when i run after syncdb initially how can i do that i have one site only ...

Django's equivalent to Rails 5 min blog demo

Some how some way I'm trying to get out of Ruby because things are just working and I don't necessarily know why. I'm taking the forest for the trees approach by which I mean I'm trying to get perspective by learning a new language; Python/Django seems to be the right way to go. The first application I built in Rails was from the 5 min ...

How to remove the unselected item in a select and radio input in Django

If a model's field is a choice or foreign key, the widget on the page is a select input or radios if you specify that. Django places "---------" in the first item as an unselected value. How can I override it or even remove it? I remember reading the way to do it but can't find it any more. ...

Running the django admin over https using apache2

I have a django web application that's running on apache 2.2.14 and I want to run the admin application over https. Having read considerable discussions on using a proxy, writing middleware, running alternative wsgi scripts, the chaps in #httpd came to my rescue. The solution is so simple, I was surprised I didn't find it online, so ...

Time Based Reminder Email in Django

I want incorporate a timed based reminder email of the events for the day in django. Basically I have a model which has all the events (including the date of the event). I want to send emails to concerned people at around 8.00 AM in the morning of each day about the events for the day. How do I incorporate this is django? Thanks ...

Using a UUID as a primary key in Django models (generic relations impact)

For a number of reasons^, I'd like to use a UUID as a primary key in some of my Django models. If I do so, will I still be able to use outside apps like "contrib.comments", "django-voting" or "django-tagging" which use generic relations via ContentType? Using "django-voting" as an example, the Vote model looks like this: class Vote(mod...

Django GenericForeignKey Widget: Using the value of one field inside another's widget

I have a GenericForeignKey in an inline on an admin page. Being a GenericFK there are 2 fields involved in it: The ContentType FK and the object_id integer field. The GenericFK can, of course, point to a variety of models and objects, some that have image fields and some that don't. My goal is to customize one of the widgets (it can be e...

Django - Cascade deletion in ManyToManyRelation

Using the following related models (one blog entry can have multiple revisions): class BlogEntryRevision(models.Model): revisionNumber = models.IntegerField() title = models.CharField(max_length = 120) text = models.TextField() [...] class BlogEntry(models.Model): revisions = models.ManyToManyField(BlogEntryRevision...

Do Django models have a data dict containing all the current values?

Something like my_model.data_dict['my_field'] Which would give you the current value for that field? Need something like that to interface with my other code. ...