Hi all, I saw this post, http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1348076/revisions , only at step 3 i'm getting confused, he tells to put 3. Add "get_view_permission" to default model class but what's the default model class? It doesn't seem to work to me, i get following error message: AttributeError at /admin/ 'Options' object has no attri...
I would like to change admin for a group, so it would display how many users are there in a certain group. I'd like to display this in the view showing all groups, the one before you enter admin for certain group. Is it possible? I am talking both about how to change admin for a group and how to add function to list_display. ...
Hi all, I followed this tutorial: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1348076/revisions Afterwards i made a user guest with permission 'Can view test' in the admin interface. When i did that it was only possible to see 'test' but not click on it and see it's actual data... so basicly i couldn't view the data from my model 'test' by only per...
Hi there, My Django site lets users upload images. It's running on Apache. Files are uploaded via a FileUpload form. The folder to which files are uploaded is outside the Django project, and protected as described here, i.e. the folder has 755 permissions and files have 644 permissions. I now want to serve the images up to users - b...
Hi folks, I have a few item listed in a database, ordered through Reddit's algorithm. This is it: def reddit_ranking(post): t = time.mktime(post.created_on.timetuple()) - 1134000000 x = post.score if x>0: y=1 elif x==0: y=-0 else: y=-1 if x<0: z=1 else: z=x return (log(z) + y * t/45000) I'm wonde...
Hi folks, I was working on a project a few months ago, and had the need to implement an award system. Similar to S*tackOverflow's badge system*. Badges I might have not implemented it in the best possible way, and I am curious what your say in it would be. What would a good way to track user activities, needed for badge awarding be?...
Hello. I have a database (in Access 95 format... don't ask) that contains data i'd like to use in Django. I can already successfully connect, issue queries, etc using pyodbc. For the most part this is a one way sync operation - that is, the data won't be modified in Django, but will be modifed in the Access 95 db via legacy applications...
I have a reviews/ratings web application, a la Digg. My django app content has the following model: class Content(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=128) url = models.URLField(max_length=2048) description = models.TextField(blank=True) class Recommendation(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) ...
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Hi, I have a XML file that is managed by other programs, I am writing a web service such that users are able to query this file. In essence i am using a xml based database instead of using sql as the model database in Django. how do i do this? all the tutorials that i find use a sql database in the backend. is there a way to use the xm...
I want to call a redefined private method from an abstract parent class. I am using django if that matters. class Parent(models.Model): def method1(self): #do somthing self.__method2() def method2(self): pass # I also tried calling up a prent method with super class child(Parent): def method1(sel...
I extended the User model in django to include several other variables, such as location, and employer. Now I'm trying to create a form that has the following fields: First name (from User) Last name (from User) Location (from UserProfile, which extends User via a foreign key) Employer (also from UserProfile) I have created a modelfor...
I'm fairly new to both Django and Python. This is my first time using forms and upload files with django. I can get the uploads and saves to the database to work fine but it fails to valid email or check if the users selected a file to upload. I've spent a lot of time reading documentation trying to figure this out. Thanks! views.py de...
Sorry if this is a duplicate - couldn't find an answer by searching. How can I run a Unix command from within a Django views file? I want to run a 'cp' command to copy a file that's just been uploaded. Thanks in advance. ...
I need to dynamically generate a code like this in the resulting html: <p>>> gallery one</p> <p><a href="../gallery2">gallery two</a></p> <p><a href="../about">about the author</a></p> <p><a href="../news">our news</a></p> I do have menu_code string variable created in views.py (it is generated depending on an item number of the curre...
I am using a ModelForm to create a form, and I have gotten the initial values set for every field in the form except for the one that is a ManyToMany field. I understand that I need to give it a list, but I can't get it to work. My code in my view right now is: userProfile = request.user.get_profile() employer = userPr...
Can one run Django in a chroot? Notably, what's necessary in order to set up (for example) /var/www as a chroot'd directory and then have Django run in that chroot'd directory? Thank you - I'm grateful for any input. ...
I've setup Treebeard in Django and everything seems to have gone well. I tried to setup the admin system and I can see my models being presented in the admin interface. However, when I try to add new data using the admin interface, I get the following error in my template. The code still works fine, and I did a check in my DB and the da...
Hi, surfing on the web, reading about django dev best practices points to use pickled model fields with extreme caution. But in a real life example, where would you use a PickledObjectField, to solve what specific problems? ...
I am working through the Django RSS reader project here. The RSS feed will read something like "OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — James Harden let". The RSS feed's encoding reads encoding="UTF-8" so I believe I am passing utf-8 to markdown in the code snippet below. The em dash is where it chokes. I get the Django error of "'ascii' codec can'...