first, we are working on a very similar application. it´s a tool for project-management which one could use to extend the django admin-interface (well, at least that´s what we do).
to help with your problem: we are using django-authentication to check user- and group-information - which is in DjangoContext. hope that helps. patrick > > Hi, > > I am creating an application similar to basecamp. On every view I need > to do lots of book keeping such as checking to see if company exists, > user exists, user is logged in, etc. before I can do what the view is > actually there to do. That is a lot of redundancy as apposed to having > a controller that would take care of bookkeeping before my view is > loaded. What's the remedy? > > One idea I had was to create a class that would take 'request' > object and takes care of redundant work and returns a dictionary > containing all the data I need which I would forward to my template. > > Ideas are appreciate here, > > Regards, > Mike >
