Django CMS has cool Draft/Live -system related to pages. Does Django CMS support enabling similar functionality for custom models? If it does how to do it?
I'm trying to build news-app, that have models, that have placeholderfield and some other fields.
So, any ideas how to implement draft/live -system for my news-app?
Django-CMS 3.0.0
Django 1.5.5
Unfortunately, the way draft/live system implemented in Django CMS doesn't allow to reuse it on another model. In Django CMS, it is achieved by versioning Page object and maintaining publisher_is_draft and publisher_public properties.
Yet you can't directly reuse Django CMS approach in your app, you can closely reimplement it in your own, better way. Please don't forget to share the sources :)
We actually want that 3rd party apps can have a daft/public version workflow easily... if you could come up with a way to provide that.... please share.
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I am trying to use django as the platform for a website development. I was using wordpress so far. I liked its CMS and admin system. Can I make a function rich admin backend with django that has; pages, menus, categories, tags, posts, images etc. as the wordpress. In order to make it look good, is it possible to use boostrap or similar dashboard templates? How much of difficulty are you expecting for this project?
Looking forward for your opinions
Thanks
Django admin is a great utility that comes with django, which helps to create basic CRUD application very quickly.
Now customizing it can be somewhat difficult because it is tightly coupled.
Thought the docs are awesome and you can see if the customization will get your work done. There are many themes available such as django-suit, django-jet etc. which makes it even more awesome.
You might also want to have a look at django-cms and wagtail.
Hope it helps!
I am looking to use django non-rel on app engine for an upcoming project and would like to know.
Can I make use of the django admin, to create news articles in django non-rel or do I need to code my own admin?
Or will the standard django admin work?
I'm using django-nonrel, but not the admin.
I don't know the answer for sure, but I'm pretty sure it's possible, since other people have done it.
Django-nonrel works fine as long as you don't use any many-to-many relations. If using many-to-many relations, I really don't know how well dbindexer works. The admin may use many-to-many relations if you use permissions. So depending on what contrib components you're using, you may run into problems.
I have been looking at the documentation on django nonrel but think i have confused my self.
I have a project using the setup instructions found at http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine#installation and continued to setup a django application. I am making a simple news feed. Now it has come to create the models but there appears to be two ways of doing this, using models.Model or db.Model.
models.Model is the django way of doing it, and if I create a model using this it appears to use nosql, this also allows me use of the built in admin.
db.Models is the non-rel way of doing things. If I create the model using this is appears to use nosql again but this method does not let me make use of the django admin. I thought the point of django non-rel was to let me make use of the admin and a majority of the default functionality in django.
I would also like to ask what is the difference between django non-rel and pure django on app engine and how does this affect how the models are created?
This is incorrect:
db.Models is the non-rel way of doing things
Where did you get this idea? db.Models is the AppEngine way of doing things. django-nonrel allows you to use the Django way even though you're on AppEngine. As you say, the point of django-nonrel is to allow you to use the admin etc, for which you need to do things the Django way, ie models.Model.
Im looking for a list or just suggestions on some Django Admin must haves or things that people tend to use.
I'm particularly interested in adding a Wysiwyg or Markdown Editor to the the TextAreas in the Django Admin.
Any suggestions?
There are a number of apps that add wysiwyg editors to Django's admin, such as django-wysiwyg. There are also a couple of articles on this subject in Django's wiki. Some other django apps that are great for admin customization are django-admin-tools and grappelli. Beyond being a general ovehaul of the user interface, grappelli also includes support for the inclusion of a wysiwig editor. And as always, the Django docs are usually a good first stop.
Personanlly, I'm particularly fond of grappelli, it's been used to great effect on a number of Django projects, including mezzanine and a few of my own! Here's a preview of the facelift it gives Django's admin:
Have you take a look at this list ?
I use the django-adimin-tools myself, it lets you create custom menus and custom dashboard as well as custom css. Here is what it looks like pretty much out of the box. Items are draggable. More on that here.
I also used django-admin-bootstrapped which uses twitter bootstrap to make the admin look nicer. more information on it here.
Grapelli is probably the most popular though and I have been using it in my Mezzanine apps but haven't yet tried it in a vanilla Django app as of yet.
Is there a good way provide user configurable app settings in Django admin?
Basically I would like to have a nice forms where site owner can easily edit such one off information as his contact information, front page text content, etc. Sort of like a normal admin interface of a model, but limited to only one undeletable item in the model.
I think django constance is the way to go. Alive and compatible with django 1.4.
The third-party project django-dbsettings is ideal for this.
I looked at dbsettings and liked some of what I saw, but I really wanted a more centralized, organized system. So I built django-appsettings. Enjoy :)
Found this: django-livesettings