Ah great, I thought I went over the models documentation but must have missed just what I was looking for... Thanks, I'll have a go at it.
On 31 Mar, 18:25, "Jonathan Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:31 PM, R. Akerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm co-writing a site for a student nation ( > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_at_Swedish_universities) and > > I've run into some issues in the first step of creating the site, > > making the models. > > > I have a model called Person that describes personal information about > > a person; name, adress, DOB... No problem here. I'm using the > > AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE approach to link a User to a Person. No problem > > here. > > > The problem is the next Model and it's relations. It's called > > "Position" and holds information about a position within the > > organizational hierarchy and as such should have permissions for the > > page associated with it. I'm thinking I could just relate it to the > > django.contrib.auth.permission system and have that sorted that way > > (not sure about this thou)... > > > The biggest problem is that the relation between Person and Position > > (a many to many relation) is date-limited. It starts at a given date > > and stops at another given date. Between these 2 dates, the person > > should have access to the permissions stated in the Position model. > > > How can I go about doing this? Any help is welcome, I'm quite new to > > Django but it appears to be just what we need for our project. > > > Robin Åkerman, System technician at Wermlands Nation, Lund, Sweden. > > Have you seen the "Many-to-many relationships via an intermediary > table" [1] example in the documentation? Sounds like what you want, > with the intermediary table holding the date range. > > Regards, > Jonathan. > > [1]http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/m2m_intermediary/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
