Using admin views "outside" of admin

2013-11-20 Thread Brad Smith
Hello all, Based on other threads I've read here, it seems that the conventional wisdom is that the admin interface is only for low-level access to the database, and isn't designed for anything "fancy", like users with different levels of administrative rights within an app, etc. Ok, I get tha

Re: Using admin views "outside" of admin

2013-11-21 Thread Brad Smith
glanceI don't see anything in the docs about replacing or extending the access control mechanism. Anyone have advice along those lines? Thanks again! --Brad On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:32:30 PM UTC-5, Gonzalo Delgado wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Ha

Re: Using admin views "outside" of admin

2013-11-21 Thread Brad Smith
...and of course now I find a FAQ item that seems to talk about exactly what I want to do: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/faq/admin/#how-do-i-limit-admin-access-so-that-objects-can-only-be-edited-by-the-users-who-created-them I'm still curious to hear comments, though, because if this

Admin permissions for proxy ModelAdmins?

2013-11-27 Thread Brad Smith
Hello all, I want to have multiple admin interfaces for editing the same model under different circumstances. The way I've been doing this is to register multiple proxy models, each with their own ModelAdmins. However, the proxy models don't seem to generate permissions, so they don't show up