Is there a way to check if a template tag exists before using the template tag? In other words, I would like to be able to do something like this: {% load my_custom_tags %} ... {% ifloaded my_custom_tags %} {% some_custom_tag %} {% endifloaded %} ...
I would like to implement a search function in a django blogging application. The status quo is that I have a list of strings supplied by the user and the queryset is narrowed down by each string to include only those objects that match the string. See: if request.method == "POST": form = SearchForm(request.POST) if fo...
After processing form from POST I should redirect, to prevent user from hitting back. However, I am using form to determine search query on a database, so I need to either pass params to the redirected site or the result of a search. Or maybe there is some other good practice, how to solve this problem? Maybe in this situation I am allow...
Hello At my template, I want to iterate through all form errors, including the ones that are NOT belonging to a specific field. ( which means for form.errors, it should also display for __all__ errors aswell) I have tried several versions, Ie: <div id="msg"> {% if form.errors %} <div class="error"> <p><span>ERROR</span></p> ...
I have one server daemon (written on python) interacted with several clients on other machines through TCP/IP sockets. Every client is sending some stat information to the server every sec. I try to find way show this stat information on web (using Django, for example). Now I know only 2 not simple potential ways: using DB for temp...
Hello, Im trying to render a django template from a database outside of djangos normal request-response structure. But it appears to be non-trivial due to the way django templates are compiled. I want to do something like this: >>> s = Template.objects.get(pk = 123).content >>> some_method_to_render(s, {'a' : 123, 'b' : 456}) >>> ... t...
Hello, I am translating a django app and I would like to translate also the homepage of the django admin site. On this page are listed the application names and the model class names. I would like to translate the model class name but I don't find how to give a user-friendly name for a model class. Does anybody know how to do that? ...
I have models... class Item(models.Model): name = models.CharField('Item Name', max_length = 30) item_code = models.CharField(max_length = 10) color = models.CharField(max_length = 150, null = True, blank = True) size = models.CharField(max_length = 30, null = True, blank = True) fabric_code = models.CharField(max_le...
I want to generate a page of html with dynamic content and then save the result as an image as well as display the page to the user. So, user signs up to attend conference and gives their name and org. That data is combined with html/css elements to show what their id badge for the conference will look like (their name and org on top of ...
I am trying to download a CSV file using HttpResponse to make sure that the browser treats it as an attachment. I follow the instructions provided here but my browser does not prompt a "Save As" dialog. I cannot figure out what is wrong with my function. All help is appreciated. dev savefile(request): try: myfile ...
I am trying to refactor out my application a little bit to keep it from getting too unwieldily. So I started to move some of the urlpatterns out to sub files as the documentation proposes. Besides that fact that it just doesn't seem to be working (the items are not being rerouted) but when I go to the admin, it says that 'urlpatterns h...
I'm new to Django, and I'm not sure what I want is possible: I have a number of items that I want each AppUser (extended User model) to be able to reference. That is, given an AppUser, I want to be able to extract its list of items in the way that AppUser has chosen to order them. In general, these items would actually be references to...
I am trying to create a dynamic hyperlink that depends on a value passed from a function: {% for item in field_list %} <a href={% url index_view %}{{ item }}/> {{ item }} </a> <br> {% endfor %} The problem is that one of the items in field_list is "Hockey Player". The link for some reason is dropping everything after the space, s...
I'm struggling getting my head around the Django's ORM. What I want to do is get a list of distinct values within a field on my table .... the equivalent of one of the following: SELECT DISTINCT myfieldname FROM mytable (or alternatively) SELECT myfieldname FROM mytable GROUP BY myfieldname I'd at least like to do it the Django way...
Sometimes my whole Django based site goes into 504 gateway timeout errors so none page can be displayed. Is it possible to write a shell program and cronjob it run every 5 minutes to detect such errors and restart FastCGI process if needed? I'm currently using command below to restart FastCGI in case it's crashed but it doesn't work fo...
Hello, I have written this small Django view to return pdf. @login_required def code_view(request,myid): try: deal = Deal.objects.get(id=myid) except: raise Http404 header = deal.header code = deal.code response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf') response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachm...
I have a django project that runs on a Linux server, and I've been working on it both on Linux and OS X. I've noticed that some of the pages are a bit off, to put it politely, in Internet Explorer, and so I checked out the subversion repository on Windows and tried to run a local server. My media directory has symbolic links to all of t...
Is there a way I can apply the login_required decorator to an entire app? When I say "app" I mean it in the django sense, which is to say a set of urls and views, not an entire project. ...
Hi there, a newbie powershell question: I'd like to make an alias in powershell exactly equivalent to this Bash alias: alias django-admin-jy="jython /path/to/jython-dev/dist/bin/django-admin.py" In tinkering with it so far, I've found this to be very difficult. -Powershell Aliases only work with Powershell commands + function calls ...
Hello I need to have multiple language support of my django admin application.I can create the messege files.But how can i change the text of my models.The heading ,fields etc .I m only able to change the static elements which are there in my template. here is example of my class class Mymodel(model.Models): id=models.IntegerFie...