On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:31 PM, R. Akerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm co-writing a site for a student nation ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_at_Swedish_universities ) and > I've run into some issues in the first step of creating the site, > making the models. > > I have a model called Person that describes personal information about > a person; name, adress, DOB... No problem here. I'm using the > AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE approach to link a User to a Person. No problem > here. > > The problem is the next Model and it's relations. It's called > "Position" and holds information about a position within the > organizational hierarchy and as such should have permissions for the > page associated with it. I'm thinking I could just relate it to the > django.contrib.auth.permission system and have that sorted that way > (not sure about this thou)... > > The biggest problem is that the relation between Person and Position > (a many to many relation) is date-limited. It starts at a given date > and stops at another given date. Between these 2 dates, the person > should have access to the permissions stated in the Position model. > > How can I go about doing this? Any help is welcome, I'm quite new to > Django but it appears to be just what we need for our project. > > Robin Åkerman, System technician at Wermlands Nation, Lund, Sweden.
Have you seen the "Many-to-many relationships via an intermediary table" [1] example in the documentation? Sounds like what you want, with the intermediary table holding the date range. Regards, Jonathan. [1] http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/m2m_intermediary/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
