On Dec 9, 12:07 pm, Djangobot <jacquesnel1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I am very new to Django and Python and I was wondering if anyone could > help me on here as I am desperate for help. > > I am designing a mobi. site and I need to somehow set an expiry date > on the competitions that will be run on the site. > > I have added the field expiry date as a DateField in the admin section > but I do not know how to produce the code that will check if the > competition's expiry date has been reached and then make it invisible > in other words set the boolean field for live ad to false? > > I have imported datetime but I need the app to verify when the expiry > has been reached. I do not know about signals and the most basic steps > would be really a great help. > > Thank you and have a great day!
Signals are not the answer to this. One way to do it would be to only show competitions whose expiry date is greater than today: Competition.objects.filter(expiry_date__gt=datetime.date.today()) Or, if you really need to use a separate boolean, you'll need a separate cron job that runs every day, does a filter to get expired comps (similar to the above, but use __lte instead of __gt) and sets them all to live=False. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
