Re: n:1 selection with lots of records

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew Flanagan
On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it is very difficult to select a record for a 1:n relation from a drop > down listbox if the related table contains many (in my case 3000 today) > records. is it possible to tell the admin fe to give a nice selection > window with the us

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/9/06, DavidA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't you just accomplish the same goal by adding a couple of lines to > your settings file? Assuming you had an environ variable DSN set like > this: > [...] > I guess it just seems like its easy enought to do in Python directly, > why would you need

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread James Bennett
On 5/9/06, pbx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another way to look at it, given that we are still at 0.91+: > Besides inertia, what are the arguments in favor of the system Django > currently uses? The only person I've seen address this is Jacob, who > correctly noted in the ticket comments th

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread pbx
Here's another way to look at it, given that we are still at 0.91+: Besides inertia, what are the arguments in favor of the system Django currently uses? The only person I've seen address this is Jacob, who correctly noted in the ticket comments that some beginners would find the separate settings

Database API

2006-05-09 Thread wizeman
Hi. I have the following model: class User(models.Model): id_user = models.AutoField(primary_key = True) username = models.CharField(maxlength = 30, unique = True, null = True) name = models.CharField(maxlength = 50, unique = True) class Meta: db_t

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread DavidA
Can't you just accomplish the same goal by adding a couple of lines to your settings file? Assuming you had an environ variable DSN set like this: DSN=ENGINE=mysql;NAME=data;USER=root;PASSWORD=redpill;HOST=localhost then add: import os dsn = dict([kv.split('=') for kv in os.environ['DSN'].split

multi-select filter in admin interface

2006-05-09 Thread Marc Boeren
Hi, I've hacked my way into the admin filters, changing the RelatedFilterSpec from a single-select filter to a multi-select filter. I can now filter on multiple values from the same ManyToMany or ForeignKey relationship, i.e. if I add 'groups' to the list_filter for Users, I can select all users

The logos on the community page color's don't match the text

2006-05-09 Thread Noah
The logos at http://www.djangoproject.com/community/logos/ particularaly http://media.djangoproject.com/img/logos/django-logo-negative.png don't seem to follow the "Official colors" the green in the background is not RGB: R:9 G:46 B:32 Mistake? Coversion problem? --~--~-~--~~

Re: n:1 selection with lots of records

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes, raw_id_admin looks fine. i saw that but the description sounds as i have to remember the pk and just can enter that by hand. thanks! p.s.: perhaps the doc should mention that there is a search option if this is set... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Manager overriding error

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/9/06, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into this problem as well. The issue is that super() expects the > child class not the parent class (the documentation is wrong), Ah, thanks for pointing this out! I've corrected the docs. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoprojec

Re: n:1 selection with lots of records

2006-05-09 Thread Honza Král
try the raw_id_admin option On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it is very difficult to select a record for a 1:n relation from a drop > down listbox if the related table contains many (in my case 3000 today) > records. is it possible to tell the admin fe to give a nice sel

n:1 selection with lots of records

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it is very difficult to select a record for a 1:n relation from a drop down listbox if the related table contains many (in my case 3000 today) records. is it possible to tell the admin fe to give a nice selection window with the usual filter/sort possibilities? --~--~-~--~~--

Re: slug as primary key: any reason why not?

2006-05-09 Thread gabor
Tom Tobin wrote: > On 5/9/06, gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> are there any scenarios when it's not a good idea to have [Slugs] as >> primary keys? (except some hypothetical situations) > > The short answer: it's always a *bad* idea. > > The slightly longer answer: It's generally a bad idea

admin editor & a way to jump to the related object

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if i use a the admin fe i often would like to jump to the object of a n:1 relation to edit that one. should not be that complicated or? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post t

Re: slug as primary key: any reason why not?

2006-05-09 Thread Tom Tobin
On 5/9/06, gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > are there any scenarios when it's not a good idea to have [Slugs] as > primary keys? (except some hypothetical situations) The short answer: it's always a *bad* idea. The slightly longer answer: It's generally a bad idea to have your primary key be

slug as primary key: any reason why not?

2006-05-09 Thread gabor
hi, i'd like to know about your opinions regarding using Slugs as primary keys. from how i understand them, if i use a Slug, then it makes usually sense to have it as the primary key. are there any scenarios when it's not a good idea to have them as primary keys? (except some hypothetical situa

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/9/06, Kumar McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is all hypothetical since I haven't migrated any apps yet, but > why would we want to have separate settings files if only the database > config would change? To answer your question: I would ideally want to > support these scenarios :

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Luke Plant
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 19:30, Kumar McMillan wrote: >1. make a parse_dsn() function (since builtin urlparse doesn't > handle user:pass splits) and carry it around with me on every django > app I write. bah. This seems like a good option to me, and I can't see too much wrong with it. I ima

Re: Django-Powered Game in Beta - MyDarkSecret.com

2006-05-09 Thread Wilson Miner
Cool! Very interesting to see a totally different kind of Django app. I'll have to try it out. On 5/8/06, ZebZiggle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey everyone! > > As you may or may not know (or are sick of hearing about) ... I've > been dabbling on a web-game for a while now. It's called "My Da

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Kumar McMillan
this is all hypothetical since I haven't migrated any apps yet, but why would we want to have separate settings files if only the database config would change? To answer your question: I would ideally want to support these scenarios : 1. developer running app on local machine 2. developer runnin

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/9/06, Kumar McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, at my company we use sandboxed > postgres (every user has his own database, named $USER) on our main > dev server for better isolation. This means we pretty much have to set > database settings as envionment variables. Sorry, I'm not qu

DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Kumar McMillan
How many Django'ers out there typically use DSNs for their web apps? How are you currently working around Django's lack of DSN support? I'm still new to Django, looking to migrate some existing apps to Django plus start new ones, but without DSN support out of the box it's almost a show stopper.

Re: Admin issue (bug?) when handling subclass models.

2006-05-09 Thread James Bennett
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check to see in the changes if the lastest development version incluse > support for supclassing models, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that > while it may appear to work on some levels the underlying code just > isn't done or anywhere ne

Re: Admin issue (bug?) when handling subclass models.

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey William, Check to see in the changes if the lastest development version incluse support for supclassing models, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that while it may appear to work on some levels the underlying code just isn't done or anywhere near complete. Good luck! Andy. --~--~-~

Re: Manager overriding error

2006-05-09 Thread Kevin
I ran into this problem as well. The issue is that super() expects the child class not the parent class (the documentation is wrong), so try this: super(DahlBookManager, self).get_query_set().. instead of super(Manager, self).get_query_set() In addition, it wouldn't let me create the Manage

Re: Accessing request.user in urls.py

2006-05-09 Thread tomass
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Re: Accessing request.user in urls.py

2006-05-09 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On 5/9/06, tomass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject says it, really. Is there any way to access the > request.user in the urls.py. Nope, and there won't be due to decoupling and all. I'd recommend creating your own view that just wraps the generic view. Something like this: from django.

Accessing request.user in urls.py

2006-05-09 Thread tomass
Hi Folks, The subject says it, really. Is there any way to access the request.user in the urls.py. Basically I want to pass the current user's id as an option to a generic view. I have a field in my model which is a ForeignKey on User, so each instance of the model is associated with a specific u

Re: Template Tags in MR

2006-05-09 Thread x0nix
Hey folks, now it all works here. And I really don't know where the problem was :-(( sorry to bother you. x0nix --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send e

Re: Django Admin CSS Problems in Safari

2006-05-09 Thread Wilson Miner
I still haven't been able to confirm this particular display problem, but adding the padding rule to #container doesn't break anything, so I went ahead and commited that change. On 4/29/06, parsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew Flanagan schrieb: > > > I can confirm that i'm seeing this

Re: No Subclassing in models yet? How would you guys do the following:

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay point taken - I'll stop trying to be 'elegant' and just live with the problem and deal with managing this with a 'VehicleType' model and several redundant fields. It is slightly anoying though! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Template Tags in MR

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/3/06, tomass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get no output/error messages when I try python automator.py. > > Here's the contents of the file: > > > from django import template > > register = template.Library() > > @register.filter > def bash_special(va

Re: No Subclassing in models yet? How would you guys do the following:

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Well, in *that* case: simply make a model based on this table. Or is > there a problem I don't see? I think he's looking for something a little more elegant, hence the inheritance. > Perhaps you want OneToOne as a simulation of constituent models? What > is useful between different kinds of v

Re: Time delta problem

2006-05-09 Thread Andy Dustman
On 5/8/06, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted this in MySQLdb's tracker but it seems it has to do with > Django. I have a view with one field being a time difference, computed > as sec_to_time(unix_timestamp(end)-unix_timestamp(start)). MySQL > specifies that the return type is

Re: [MySQLdb] Could not load database backend: cannot import name ImmutableSet.

2006-05-09 Thread Andy Dustman
On 5/8/06, Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip! I will check it out when I get home this evening. > I'll keep my fingers crossed that this will help me get django > going... I've been wanting to start playing with Django for an > upcoming project but am not a sys admin and can'

Re: Manager overriding error

2006-05-09 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately this is not the case, I'm using the new version, > downloaded through SVN. No, you're not. Look at your stack trace - it references the 0.91 egg. If you have downloaded the SVN version, it would appear that you haven't cor

Re: No Subclassing in models yet? How would you guys do the following:

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Radziej
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will say the way I'd be doing the inheritance more simply than is > suggested on the wiki with one sparse table representing the whole > inheritance hierarchy. Well, in *that* case: simply make a model based on this table. Or is there a problem I don't see? Michael

Re: No Subclassing in models yet? How would you guys do the following:

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you can see inheritance would be very very useful for this purpose - > so maybe I can work on that? I'm not sure I see that. I know this is a canonical example of inheritance, almost as popular as Shape and Square vs. Circle, but those

No Subclassing in models yet? How would you guys do the following:

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am building a website for a garage to put their cars etc. on. Said garage also specialises in second hand vans and on occation trucks, I'd like to know how I can represent the slightly different forms of data using django, given that the inheritance is a work in progress and how I can then disp

Re: Manager overriding error

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately this is not the case, I'm using the new version, downloaded through SVN. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegr

Re: Django svn over https?

2006-05-09 Thread Vladimir Pouzanov
+1 On 5/9/06, Pradeep Kishore Gowda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for HTTPS access. -- Sincerely, Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov http://www.hackndev.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django user

MR django_content_type SQL error

2006-05-09 Thread Graham King
In the RemovingTheMagic wiki page the SQL to upgrade django_content_type is given as: UPDATE django_content_type SET name='group' WHERE model='group'; UPDATE django_content_type SET name='user' WHERE model='user'; The 'group' and 'user' should be plural. stuka fixes this to: UPDATE d

Re: Permissions question

2006-05-09 Thread tomass
So I decided the easiest way to do this was to add this to the top of my model: from django.contrib.auth.models import Group and then adding this to my class: group_perm = models.ManyToManyField(Group) Thanks, Tom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag