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Django aggregation on a date range

Hi all, I have been lurking and learning in here for a while. Now i have a problem that somehow i cannot see an easy solution. In order to learn django i am bulding an app that basically keeps track of booked items. What I would like to do is to show how many days per month for a selected year one item has been booked. i have the follow...

How can I limit ModelAdmin queryset to user-editable items when using object permissions?

I'm trying to implement Florian's object permissions system from his article on Django Advent, but I'm running into an issue trying to limit the queryset returned to only items the user has permission to edit/view. Florian mentions it in his section on wrapping the admin, but skips over it. I can't see a good way to filter the queryset. ...

django 'urlize' strings form text just like twitter

heyy there i want to parse a text,let's name it 'post', and 'urlize' some strings if they contain a particular character, in a particular position. my 'pseudocode' trial would look like that: def urlize(post) for string in post if string icontains ('#') url=(r'^searchn/$', searchn, ...

Django and Haystack search problem.

Hi there guys! I am running Python 2.6, the lastest haystack, django 1.2 beta and I have tried both Woosh and Xapian backends. The problem is that I cannot do a __lt or __gt filter on an integer field - when such is used,there are always none results found... My model: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from django.db import models from django...

File uploads with Progressbar in Django

I am looking for an example which does a file upload with a progress bar, in Django. I have been trying djangp-uploadify for quiet sometime, but have not been able to get it working. I have been trying something similar to that given in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2821612/djangouploadify-dont-working/2887831 and also in http://wik...

Making only a part of model field available in Django

Hello I have a such model: GENDER_CHOICES = ( ('M', 'Male'), ('F', 'Female') ) class Profile(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=GENDER_CHOICES) class FrontPage(models.Model): female = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name="female") male = models.ForeignKey(User,re...

verbose_name for a model's method

How can I set a verbose_name for a model's method, so that it might be displayed in the admin's change_view form? example: class Article(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=64) created_date = models.DateTimeField(....) def created_weekday(self): return self.created_date.strftime("%A") in admin.py: ...

Order in many to many relation in Django model

I am writing a small website to store the papers I have written. The relation papers<-> author is important, but the order of the name of the authors (which one is First Author, which one is second order, and so on) is also important. I am just learning Django so I don't know much. In any case so far I have done: from django.db import ...

Reorganizing many to many relationships in Django

I have a many to many relationship in my models and i'm trying to reorganize it on one of my pages. My site has videos. On each video's page i'm trying to list the actors that are in that video with links to each time they are in the video(the links will skip to that part of the video) Here's an illustration Flash Video embedded he...

How to store wiki sites (vcs)

Hello, as a personal project I am trying to write a wiki with the help of django. I'm a beginner when it comes to web development. I am at the (early) point where I need to decide how to store the wiki sites. I have three approaches in mind and would like to know your suggestion. Flat files I considered a flat file approach with a ver...

Django microblog showing a logged in user only his posts

i have a miniblog application, with a class named New(refering to a new post), having a foreign key to an user(who has posted the entry). above i have a method that displays all the posts from all the users. I'd like to show to the logged in user, only his posts How can i do it? Thanks in advance! def paginate(request): paginator = N...

creating my own context processor in django

Hay, I have come to a point where i need to pass certain variables to all my views (mostly custom authentication type variables). I was told writing my own context processor was the best way to do this, but i am having some issues. My settings file looks like this TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( "django.contrib.auth.context_proces...

Capistrano for Django

Does anyone know of a good Django equivalent of Capistrano/Webistrano? ...

How to customize a many-to-many inline model in django admin

I'm using the admin interface to view invoices and products. To make things easy, I've set the products as inline to invoices, so I will see the related products in the invoice's form. As you can see I'm using a many-to-many relationship. In models.py: class Product(models.Model): name = models.TextField() price = models.Deci...

manage.py runserver throws an ImportError with my appname, MacPorts issue on OSX?

I've been developing a Django app for weeks locally on OSX 10.6.3. Recently, I rebooted my machine and went to start my development environment up. Here's the error: cm:myApp cm$ python manage.py runserver Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 11, in execute_manager(settings) File "/Library/Python/2.6/...

Use variable as dictionary key in Django template

I'd like to use a variable as an key in a dictionary in a Django template. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. If I have a product with a name or ID field, and ratings dictionary with indices of the product IDs, I'd like to be able to say: {% for product in product_list %} <h1>{{ ratings.product.id }}</h1> {% endfor...

Selenium vs old-school POST/GET based tests

We have a considerable code base with relatively high test coverage for pages/forms, all via vanilla POST/GET. Now, we are find ourselves moving more into the 'ajaxy' space, and it's not quite possible to test with GET/POST complete scenarios like user registration, or an item creation, as they involve lots of JavaScript/Ajax calls. Wh...

safely hosting a django project over apache using centos

Error can be seen at: http://djaffry.selfip.com:8080/ I had a project working great, but I had all the files under /var/www/ and with my limited understanding it's bad, according to django's site: "If your background is in PHP, you’re probably used to putting code under the Web server’s document root (in a place such as /var/www). Wit...

send activate-email with django-registration

Hi All, I curius about how to send activated email with username, password by using django-registration. First I think about modify registrationform but I need some example. ...

How to restrict the size of file being uploaded apache + django

Hi How to restrict the size of file being uploaded. I am using django 1.1 with apache. Can I use apache for this and show some html error page if say size is bigger then 100MB. Thanks. ...