Re: Customizing a manytomany admin box

2009-07-23 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 22, 11:17 pm, knicholes wrote: > Hey, > > I used the admin to display a manytomany field (that had over 60,000 > entries) and used raw_id_field = ('hugeDatabaseField').  This took > care of the problem, but I wanted to be able to sort my manytomany > field, so I added an intermediary cla

Re: How I run background processes

2009-07-23 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 21, 9:10 am, Philippe Josse wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to have your feedback on the way I am running daemon scripts > for my Django/ Python app. I know this is definitely not the "one best way", > but this is a solution I came up with that seemed simple to implement. (I am > a r

Re: Django 1.0.2 ordering fireign keys

2009-07-23 Thread Rajesh D
> Lets say I have two models Street and House, related by a foreign key > thus: > > class House(models.Model): >     house_number =  models.CharField(max_length=16) >     street = models.ForeignKey(Street) > > In the admin area, the Change House page displays a list widget by > which to select the

Re: duplicate primary key problem

2009-07-10 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 10, 11:06 am, adelaide_mike wrote: > I suspect this is a question more for a PostgreSQL list, but please > bear with me. > > In Django 1.0.2 working with PostgreSQL 8.3 I have a model with an > implied pkey.  PostgreSQL syas this: > > CREATE TABLE wha_property > ( >   id serial NOT NULL,

Re: NameError: name 'Job' is not defined

2009-07-10 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 10, 8:39 am, bruno wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new in django and I have problem with importing models > > I have two class : Job and Event > > The Job class defines a method run_job() wich do something and log the > result by creating a new Event so I need to import the Event class > from file

Re: Make three columns without violating DRY

2009-07-09 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 9, 4:29 pm, Wiiboy wrote: > Hi, > On the homepage of my website, I have three columns of articles from > users. I can't quite figure out how to make those three columns > without violating DRY.  Now, I have a dictionary of lists, with each > list being the list of articles for one column

Re: Removing old Django - also django-admin.py?

2009-07-08 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 8, 3:18 pm, Dave E wrote: > I've just removed my old Django 1.0 dir to install 1.1 (as per the > instructions on the Django > site):http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/#removing-old-ver... > > But this leaves django-admin.py under (on Mac OS 10.4.11): > /Library/Framewor

Re: Efficiency of getting attribute values in templates

2009-07-05 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 4, 9:28 pm, TechnicalBard wrote: > But the admin app does - it defines the labels from the attribute > names and just puts them all in a table or list. > > How does one do that? Actually, you tell it which fields you want to display through the list_display attribute on your Admin class

Re: Efficiency of getting attribute values in templates

2009-07-04 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 4, 6:30 pm, TechnicalBard wrote: > Is there a way to pass an object to the template and have the template > handle all of the attributes without hardcoding them into the > template? Depends on what you mean by "handle". The template won't by itself know the markup with which you want to

Re: Efficiency of getting attribute values in templates

2009-07-03 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 3, 9:17 am, Nikola Pavlović wrote: > Hello people, > > I'm writing my first Django application and would like to know what is > considered more efficient: getting values of models' attributes in views > or directly in templates? > > More precicely, say we have a Person model with name an

Re: Reusable Contact Form include error?

2009-07-03 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 3, 8:57 am, 1angrycats wrote: > Great suggestion Rajesh. > > I've shifted everything into a custom context processor and > everythign's runnign well, with the view showing and emailing from any > page, however there's a final step I'm looking to resolve: returning > the HttpResponseR

Re: Django-rest-interface - querying data

2009-07-02 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 2, 11:03 am, Matt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've started to use the django-rest-interface to build an API for a > service that I'm working on. Principally all that's required is for a > client to be able to create and update objects remotely via POST and > PUT, but as this is the first REST i

Re: Reusable Contact Form include error?

2009-07-02 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 2, 12:35 pm, 1angrycats wrote: > Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time botherer. > > I hope someone here can help me out (& possibly a few other Django > n00bs in the future too). > > I've dug around as best I can but can't find a - probably simple - > solution to an issue I'm ha

Re: Keep session data between user switches

2009-07-02 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 2, 12:18 pm, mettwoch wrote: > Hi, > > I write a POS application and several users share the same terminal. > They use a barcode scanner to point to their badge to login (works > already). I'd like to keep the session data for every user so that > when user A leaves the terminal and user

Re: How to filter out posts from friends?

2009-07-01 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 1, 4:35 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jul 1, 8:59 pm, Rajesh D wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 1, 9:50 am, Mathieu Leplatre wrote: > > > On 1 juil, 14:44, coan wrote: > > > > > I have a friendship model for users and want t

Re: Using a dynamically created ImageField filename prior to save?

2009-07-01 Thread Rajesh D
> > > This is an issue which, I believe, is related to Ticket #10788 > > (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10788). > > > The following code snippet used to work with Django 1.0.2, but with > > the latest svn version the slug is not being set to the filename > > produced by get_path because, as

Re: How to filter out posts from friends?

2009-07-01 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 1, 9:50 am, Mathieu Leplatre wrote: > On 1 juil, 14:44, coan wrote: > > > > > > > I have a friendship model for users and want to retrieve all the posts > > my friends made. > > > class Friendship(models.Model): > >  from_friend = models.ForeignKey( User, related_name='friend_set' ) > >

Re: file extensions for templates

2009-07-01 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 1, 8:30 am, David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I can see, django shouldn't care in the slightest about > template file name extensions, but being a django newbie, I could have > missed something (e.g. autosetting of a mime type somewhere based on > extension), so just to

Re: How to write to the history

2009-07-01 Thread Rajesh D
On Jul 1, 12:10 pm, mettwoch wrote: > Hi group, > > What would be a good way to log changes made to models from outside > the admin interface? Look at the log_* methods in the Admin implementation: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L377 You cou

Re: Uploaded File Array

2009-06-29 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 29, 11:05 am, BarakatX2 wrote: > I have a form that allows a dynamic number of files to be uploaded. On > the Django side, if I print the request.FILES it is described as: > > png)>, , > ]}> > > But when I try to access the files like this: > > for f in files['rqFiles']: > > Then f is a

Re: admin like list view

2009-06-26 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 26, 11:35 am, pihentagy wrote: > Hi! > > I am developing a django app, which will be installed at multiple > places with different configuration. > > It has some models, and list views. > > I store in a config dict the fields/methods to be displayed, and I'd > like to offer sorting (auto

Re: switching menu items on and off - dynamic urls?

2009-06-26 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 26, 7:17 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > I have a conference management application. It has a list of menu items on the > lefthand side. These menus are created by a templatetag from a list of menus > in views.py. At various stages of the conference, menu items have to be > enable

Re: I couldn't re-write save() of mymodels in admin.py instead of models.py ?

2009-06-26 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 26, 7:33 am, Shuge Lee wrote: > models.pyhttp://gpaste.com/p/3747b > > admin.pyhttp://gpaste.com/p/3d432 If you need to have custom code when a model is saved through the admin, you should override the save_model method in your Admin class. See this doc: http://docs.djangoproject.com/e

Re: Using Signals as hooks

2009-06-26 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 10:49 pm, Wiiboy wrote: > Question: how often should I have a cron job work to send emails?   Depends on the volume of emails and the frequency with which new articles are submitted to your site. Just try a frequency of say every 10 minutes and adjust it up or down when you have rea

Re: Hard linking an image

2009-06-26 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 26, 1:16 am, koranthala wrote: > On Jun 26, 2:21 am, Kevin Teague wrote: > > > Presumably you already have all of the data required to generate a > > chart on the server? If so, then store the chart data in a model, and > > just reference it by id. e.g. > > > > > > (or w/ a pretty URL:

Re: Handling a reusable form in multiple views

2009-06-25 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 4:43 pm, delino wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple scenario using Django 0.96 and am looking for a > cleaner solution than what I currently have: > > I want to include a simple submission form (a few simple fields) on > most pages of my site. I have the form action set to '.' so that >

Re: Hard linking an image

2009-06-25 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 9:43 am, koranthala wrote: > Hi, >     I have a chart which I generate on the fly. >     Basically, I have hard linked an image. The image src contains GET > parameters, which is used to generate the chart image via matplotlib. > The resultant image is returned back as 'Content-Type'

Re: Writing a reusable app

2009-06-25 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 9:51 am, nabucosound wrote: > Hi all: > > I am refactoring a django app to make it reusable and share it open > sourced to the world. There is a lot code which I think it is optional > and maybe not everybody will want to use, like some model fields, url > patterns of view functions.

Re: Using Signals as hooks

2009-06-25 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 12:54 am, Wiiboy wrote: > I'm a bit of a noob at Web Devlopment (as you already know if you've > read any of my posts on here). > > I've read that using hooks in key places in a website can help ease > future development.  Can/Should Django's signals be used for that > purpose? > > I

Re: Escaping forward slashes in URLs

2009-06-25 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 25, 12:52 pm, Andrew Fong wrote: > Question: When is it necessary to escape a forward slash? I'm dealing > with these two situations in my templates -- assume the next context > variable is a URL of some sort. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_c

Re: active django battery projects

2009-06-19 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 19, 4:14 pm, notcourage wrote: > I for one would be interested in replies showcasing django battery > projects underway. As a new django user, I'm stumbling on some active, > useful projects (django piston, south) and wondering if there are > projects addressing my wish list (django mode

Re: production sites powered by django

2009-06-19 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 19, 4:10 pm, notcourage wrote: > http://www.djangosites.org/ > is missing info like load, scaling techniques used, utilities written > (e.g., custom tags, custom form fields, custom model fields, wish > list. I don't see how one adds a site. Create an account there and login to see the

Re: Gallery album restricted to certain users

2009-06-19 Thread Rajesh D
> > > > On Jun 17, 7:41 am, pagetribe wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have been creating a gallery, which has albums. I would like to > > > restrict the albums, say album1 to a set of users, say userA and userB > > > and album2 to userC. So userA & userB cannot view album2 and userC > > > cannot v

Re: Scientific Data Frontend with Django

2009-06-17 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 17, 2:06 pm, blaine wrote: > Hey guys, >   I have a lot of data from various testing samples (simple 2D > plotting points) in .csv format.  I am looking to design a system to > manage things like plotting, calculations, selecting individual > samples and tests, etc. by creating a data ma

Re: change list multi-field sort?

2009-06-17 Thread Rajesh D
Hi Josh, On Jun 17, 10:25 am, Joshua Russo wrote: > Is there a generally accepted workaround for the problem of sorting > relational models by more than one field? I have a model that > represents recurring payments between a person and an object and it > would be really nice to order by the obj

Re: Gallery album restricted to certain users

2009-06-17 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 17, 7:41 am, pagetribe wrote: > Hi, > > I have been creating a gallery, which has albums. I would like to > restrict the albums, say album1 to a set of users, say userA and userB > and album2 to userC. So userA & userB cannot view album2 and userC > cannot view album1. > > From the docum

Re: Disabling I18N causes circular import?

2009-06-12 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 11, 6:29 pm, ringemup wrote: > With I18n disabled, I'm getting what looks like a circular import > error from one of my apps, but with it enabled, the error goes away. > None of my modules is (to my knowledge) using any I18N features.  Any > clues what might be going on? Include a trace

Re: Wired integers displayed instead of Friends List in facebook connect

2009-06-12 Thread Rajesh D
On Jun 12, 12:51 am, gganesh wrote: > hi, > My app connects to Facebook and as user logins in with facebook > connect ,i intent to display users friends list .I the process of > doing so i have written a code as pasted below > > script> > >