Re: home page

2008-07-06 Thread keegan3d
Thanks everyone! This group is always so helpful and FAST! I made a view.py file in the project root because I wanted to use data from my apps to populate the home page. It worked great! On Jul 6, 9:17 pm, "Milan Andric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:52 PM, keegan3d <[EM

Re: ImageField error

2008-07-06 Thread Milan Andric
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Molly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Millan, > > I'm doing this in dev environment with the built in webserver. No it's > not a mod_python error. > > I'm using the static setup and I can get to it fine when I upload my > photo. > The problem is when I click the phot

Re: Using a Custom Manager for date based generic views??

2008-07-06 Thread Rob Hudson
On Jul 6, 3:53 pm, Christopher Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > class IssuerManaager(models.Manager): > >      def with_aggs(self): >          from django.db import connection >          cursor=connection.cursor() >          cursor.execute(""" >              select i.id,max(i.name), m.dateix AS

Re: Using a Custom Manager for date based generic views??

2008-07-06 Thread Milan Andric
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Christopher Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys > I'm building a django based system for a company that monitors the mutuals > funds industry > We have Mutual Funds Companies (Issuer) who have one or more funds (Fund) > and every month the funds submit a vo

Re: home page

2008-07-06 Thread Milan Andric
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:52 PM, keegan3d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I am a little foggy on how I would go about making a home page, by > that I mean the page that people see when they go to the main address: > www.mysite.com. > > Should I make a "home page" app? or does djan

Re: home page

2008-07-06 Thread Jeff Anderson
keegan3d wrote: Hey everyone, I am a little foggy on how I would go about making a home page, by that I mean the page that people see when they go to the main address: www.mysite.com. Should I make a "home page" app? or does django have a way of dealing with this? Another solution would be f

Re: home page

2008-07-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Hey Dave, Your homepage, or index view, is nothing more than a (r'^$', 'index',) entry in your urlconfs, and an 'index' view somewhere in your codebase (obviously it doesn't have to be called index). While I've got several apps tied together for any one site, there's usually one app that's

home page

2008-07-06 Thread keegan3d
Hey everyone, I am a little foggy on how I would go about making a home page, by that I mean the page that people see when they go to the main address: www.mysite.com. Should I make a "home page" app? or does django have a way of dealing with this? Thanks for the help! -Dave --~--~-~--

Re: Django + tiny_mce

2008-07-06 Thread Chatchai Neanudorn
Oh, Fixed me, 404 (File not found!) I was in situation like you, before. Some instruction or recipe assume you have basic understanding of django. There are a lot of django recipe assume that you put js or css under the same place of admin media. In this case, you don't need to configure media ur

Re: "Eval" in templates?

2008-07-06 Thread Ben Kovitz
Uh!! (Hits hand into forehead.) Yep, just including a template named by a variable would have been much simpler. However, it's all worked out nicely. Having seen just how easy it is to write a custom template tag, I replaced the 'eval' tag with a couple specialized tags, which render from anoth

Re: html templates - 'for' cycle without a variable

2008-07-06 Thread Milan Andric
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, antony_h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How could I repeat my 20 times? > I've found how I can repeat it 5 times: > {% for a in 12345|make_list %} > > {% endfor %} > But it's not so great for e.g. a hundred > Usage: my designer wants to test his layout and I don'

Re: pluggable django ticketing app?

2008-07-06 Thread Milan Andric
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:05 AM, chefsmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a pluggable django ticketing app? Something like > the apps used by webhosts for online support? I have yet to see something available for Django that does ticketing/issue tracking. But I may have misse

Re: Django + tiny_mce

2008-07-06 Thread LRP
Many thanks for the help, Chatchai. > Can you start web server and > typehttp://localhost/usr/share/tinymce/www/tiny_mce.js > and see if it return something rather than 400. I get 404. Here's url config: urlpatterns = patterns('', # Example: # (r'^cms/', include('cms.foo.urls')),

Re: many-ended relationship retrieval

2008-07-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 22:26 -0400, Michael Hrivnak wrote: [...] > The problem is that this is slow, I think because it's executing a new > database query for each user. It's even worse because many objects in my > data model have several many-ended relationships. Using 6 such getters on > 10

many-ended relationship retrieval

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Hrivnak
I am using django 0.96.1 mostly for its database API on a large project. I need to retrieve many-ended relationship data. For example, for every user, I need to know what groups they are in. As expected, there is a many-to-many relationship. The code I've written will get a queryset of users

Re: clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:44 -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > So if I understand correctly, you are saying make author a > not-required field so is_valid() will validate to True. Then in my > view do the commit=False on save, check if author is present and if > not, set the default author, then call sa

Using a Custom Manager for date based generic views??

2008-07-06 Thread Christopher Clarke
Hi Guys I'm building a django based system for a company that monitors the mutuals funds industry We have Mutual Funds Companies (Issuer) who have one or more funds (Fund) and every month the funds submit a volume report Here is a simplified version class Issuer(models

Re: clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread TiNo
You don't have to do the commit=False thing. You can check if author is present in the clean() method, that will always be called. On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if I understand correctly, you are saying make author a > not-required field so is_valid

Re: looping through newforms fields in a template

2008-07-06 Thread joshuajonah
Resolved. A little black magic required: http://www.zedkep.com/blog/index.php?/archives/85-Iterating-over-a-dictionary-in-Django-templates.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. T

looping through newforms fields in a template

2008-07-06 Thread joshuajonah
ok, it's actually pretty complicated but I'll give you the specific issue. I'm making a dictionary of form fields, views.py: form = RetailForm() categories = ['Toys', 'Bird'] checkboxlist = {} for category in categories: num = 0 for field

Re: html templates - 'for' cycle without a variable

2008-07-06 Thread Oscar Carlsson
If you only need to repeat a div-tag 20 times, and don't need any data from any model, you could always do it with javascript. Oscar On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Create a 20-elemnt list inside your view and set it as a context > variable? > >

Re: clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread Rob Hudson
So if I understand correctly, you are saying make author a not-required field so is_valid() will validate to True. Then in my view do the commit=False on save, check if author is present and if not, set the default author, then call save(). Something like that? On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM,

Re: ImageField error

2008-07-06 Thread Molly
Millan, I'm doing this in dev environment with the built in webserver. No it's not a mod_python error. I'm using the static setup and I can get to it fine when I upload my photo. The problem is when I click the photo it seems to be pointing to somewhere else. In my models: =

Re: Autoupdate field?

2008-07-06 Thread Juanjo Conti
I you want your data to be normalized, telephone_home char(9) should not be an attribute of Person. If mary is a Person you always can do: mary.family.telephone_home to get her telephone_home. Juanjo -- mi blog: http://www.juanjoconti.com.ar --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

Autoupdate field?

2008-07-06 Thread Xan
Hi, I think in family class and person class. I put in pseudocode: Class Family string name telephon-home char(9) Class Person string name string surname telephone-home char(9) mobile-phone char(9) Every Person belongs to a Family. How can I update Per

Re: Multiple fields without manytomanyfield?

2008-07-06 Thread Xan
Thanks a lot, Xan. On Jun 25, 5:49 pm, Joel Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't suppose a CommaSeparatedIntegerField would work, would it? > > You'd lose some querying options that you'd have with a foreign key > relationship, but that may not be important to you. > > On Jun 25, 10:37 

Re: clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread Alex Koshelev
Oh, `required=True` of course On Jul 6, 10:31 pm, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Field for `author` created with `required=False`. And `clean` method > doesn't call `clean_author` if `author` data isn't present. > > On Jul 6, 10:14 pm, "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is

Re: clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread Alex Koshelev
Field for `author` created with `required=False`. And `clean` method doesn't call `clean_author` if `author` data isn't present. On Jul 6, 10:14 pm, "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to supply a clean_[fieldname] method to a ModelForm for > custom validation rules like you

Re: raising HttpResponseBadRequest throws Exception Type error?

2008-07-06 Thread Rob Hudson
On Jul 5, 7:33 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having an exception > for every possible response code is really overkill here, since it means > you'll be raising status-code-related exceptions instead of more > semantic ones. Ah, makes sense. > > * Shouldn't Django be consist

clean_* method for ModelForms?

2008-07-06 Thread Rob Hudson
Is it possible to supply a clean_[fieldname] method to a ModelForm for custom validation rules like you can with a normal Form? I've got a form with an author column that maps to Django's User class. I want a default to be set if none is given. I've tried many ways to accomplish this and haven'

Re: Storing additional data in ManyToManyField's join table

2008-07-06 Thread Brandon Kelly
On Jul 6, 5:03 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're looking for ticket #6095. This is scheduled for inclusion in > v1.0, so it should be in trunk in the near future. Perfect, thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Django + tiny_mce

2008-07-06 Thread Chatchai Neanudorn
First thing when you work with Java script is, make sure it is available. In this case, where is your urls config. >From these, Can you start web server and type http://localhost/usr/share/tinymce/www/tiny_mce.js

Django + tiny_mce

2008-07-06 Thread lloyd
Hello, I'm working through James Bennett's Practical Django Projects. Have brought up the cms; would like to add Rich Text Editing, but the instructions in Bennet's book don't seem to work for me. Googling around, I find a number of recipes for adding RTE. Thought I try the approach suggested

Re: URL templatetag with URL naming not working

2008-07-06 Thread Kimus Linuxus
at HOME (developing) the urls (named urls) work fine. after I deploy only the home page seams to have the urls right. the other pages the URL templatetag returns no url. kimus On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:49 +0100, Kimus Linuxus wrote: > this is very strange... changed some more templates (no chan

Re: nfa - how to access the standard admin views from a custom view?

2008-07-06 Thread Jan Rademaker
I think i've got it. Instead of putting this logic in a custom view I should just override the change_view method of my custom ModelAdmin. On Jul 6, 1:46 pm, Jan Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of converting an app to nfa. In this app some > models have their

Re: Get an absolute URL including host

2008-07-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:21 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > how can I get an absolute URL including a hostname (e.g. > http://www.example.org/dir/doc.html) > in a template. I have an object which get_absolute_url I can use but > what is the best way of getting the hostname in th

Get an absolute URL including host

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, how can I get an absolute URL including a hostname (e.g. http://www.example.org/dir/doc.html) in a template. I have an object which get_absolute_url I can use but what is the best way of getting the hostname in the template? Thanks, Florian --~--~-~--~~~---

Re: Strange MySQLdb error

2008-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jul 6, 12:13 pm, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So here's something really strange. I ran > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jun 30 2008, 18:59:56) > [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import sys > >>> sys.path

Re: Non editable fields in admin

2008-07-06 Thread Yuri Baburov
Hi Alex, Check out this: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/414/ and this: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/323/ On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Alex Rades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean this? > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsHOWTO#Q:HowdoIchangetheattributesforaw

Re: ForeignKey adds no backwards relations

2008-07-06 Thread Andre Meyer
oh yes, that makes sense! moved t.save() to just after its intialisation for better overview. thanks a lot, Malcolm On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:36 +0200, Andre Meyer wrote: > [...] > > >>> t = SimpleTask() > > >>>

Re: ForeignKey adds no backwards relations

2008-07-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:36 +0200, Andre Meyer wrote: [...] > >>> t = SimpleTask() > >>> t.title = 'first task' > >>> t.done = False > >>> n = SimpleNote() > >>> n.title = 'first note' > >>> n.text = "just some text for this note." > >>> n.item = t At this point, t hasnt' been saved, so it won't

Re: Storing additional data in ManyToManyField's join table

2008-07-06 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Brandon Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to store an additional field in my ManyToManyField's join > table (a CharField, "notes"). I can think of a couple ways to go about > this, but I'm wondering what the most Django-esque approach would be. > Any sug

Storing additional data in ManyToManyField's join table

2008-07-06 Thread Brandon Kelly
I'd like to store an additional field in my ManyToManyField's join table (a CharField, "notes"). I can think of a couple ways to go about this, but I'm wondering what the most Django-esque approach would be. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: ForeignKey adds no backwards relations

2008-07-06 Thread Andre Meyer
hi again when looking at the database (sqlite, using SQLite Manager) i saw that the field item_id in the simplenote table is NULL! after setting is manually to the id of the task, task.notes.all() returns the correct non-empty list. so, is this a bug in queryset-refactor or am i doing something w

nfa - how to access the standard admin views from a custom view?

2008-07-06 Thread Jan Rademaker
Hello, I'm in the process of converting an app to nfa. In this app some models have their own change view. Some of these views fall-back to using the standard amin view based on some condition; like this: from django.contrib.admin.views.main import change_stage def my_view(request, model_id):

ForeignKey adds no backwards relations

2008-07-06 Thread Andre Meyer
hi all so, i am trying to add notes to tasks in this simple model (using newforms-admin 7844): class SimpleItem(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=512) class SimpleTask(SimpleItem): done = models.BooleanField() due = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True) class

Re: customizing or extending ModelForm

2008-07-06 Thread Huuuze
You added an __init__ to your ModelForm class? If so, try this: add a "fields" definition to your ModelForm's Meta class that includes this new field. You can read more about it here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/modelforms/#using-a-subset-of-fields-on-the-form On Jul 6, 5:35 am,

Re: Django based CMS

2008-07-06 Thread chefsmart
More cms and other apps are listed on http://djangoplugables.com/ On Jul 6, 1:45 pm, MiloZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are searching for a simple cms, you can try > this:http://code.google.com/p/django-simplecms/ > > On Jul 5, 1:09 pm, Fernando Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: customizing or extending ModelForm

2008-07-06 Thread chefsmart
> > >> self.fields['short_name'] = forms.CharField(label='Short Name', > > >> max_length=9) > > > This code would need to be added to an overridden __init__ in your > > ModelForm. I tried this, however it didnn't work. It seems like the form already exists when __init__ is executed. On Jul 3, 9

Re: pluggable django ticketing app?

2008-07-06 Thread MiloZ
Hi, I think it's a good idea for a new django project :-) Another idea is using the database of a php soft like glpi, and let inspectdb do the job. On Jul 6, 7:05 am, chefsmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a pluggable django ticketing app? Something like > the apps used by we

Re: Django based CMS

2008-07-06 Thread MiloZ
If you are searching for a simple cms, you can try this: http://code.google.com/p/django-simplecms/ On Jul 5, 1:09 pm, Fernando Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any open source django based cms you would recommend? Th > eonlyone I've seen so far is PyLucid. What else is t

Re: handling currency values

2008-07-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Scratch the locale-dependent idea, of course, but still... On Jul 6, 1:05 pm, Eric Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this something that might belong in the humanize filters package?   > Either something like {{ quantity|currency }}, which takes the   > currency type from locale, if in u