Ok - forget it - I figured it out! I found the django pages on how to
serve static files and that showed me what I need to know and it looks
great now.

On Dec 4, 12:54 pm, Margie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok - this is very useful!  It is just great to see a "real" app that
> does something similar to what I want.  The code looks very nice and
> seems simple to understand.  I have downloaded it and integrated into
> my little play django application, but I have one problem.  In the
> README it says:
>
> 6. Inside your MEDIA_ROOT folder, create a new folder called
> 'helpdesk' and
>    copy the contents of helpdesk/htdocs/ into it. Alternatively,
> create a
>    symlink:
>     ln -s /path/to/helpdesk/htdocs /path/to/media/helpdesk
>
>    This application assumes all helpdesk media will be accessible at
>    http://MEDIA_PATH/helpdesk/
>
> I did the ln, but I don't understand how to make the contantes of
> media/helpdes accessible athttp://MEDIA_PATH/helpdesk/
>
> What do I do to make them "accessible"?
>
> Margie
>
> On Dec 3, 11:27 pm, "Hanny Wibisono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> >http://www.jutdahelpdesk.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > On Behalf Of Margie
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I would like to create a django project managment web app to be used
> > internally in my company.  I am a software developer, but have little
> > experience with web apps other than my recent work going through the
> > sams django tutorial book.
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows of any open source/free django web app
> > that I might be able to use to get started on this project.  Let me
> > describe the usage model to give you an idea of what I'm aiming for.
>
> > At a very high level, the usage model for this web app is that a
> > "manager" assigns tasks to "employees" on a weekly basis. Associated
> > with each task is a set of measurements that must be performed by the
> > employee as he/she does the task.  The measurements vary based on the
> > task, and somemes the measurement is reported with a comment string,
> > sometimes a number, or sometimes a check mark in one of 'n' radio
> > boxes.   As the employees complete the tasks, they fill in the
> > measurements.  At the end of the week, the manager can look at each
> > task and review the resulting measurements, and based on that data,
> > decide the next weeks'  tasks.
>
> > Unlike a project mangament tool like MS Project, which helps you
> > schedule and gannt chart the schedule, this is really a tool to for
> > enhancing project communication.  It is intended to allow the manager
> > to easily communicate tasks to the employees, get the results back,
> > and then make decisions about what the next set of tasks sould be.
> > All without having to spend a lot of time emailing and talking to
> > people.  In the environement where it will be used, the manager is
> > getting results back from maybe 100 different employees, each of which
> > have a few tasks to do.  The data is not complex, but there is just
> > too much of it to manage without a tool.  Currently folks are using
> > wiki and excel, but in my opninion this is not really automated
> > enough.
>
> > My thought is that a django web client could provide a very simple and
> > easy to use interface, and could also be extended to get all sorts of
> > nice long term trend information.  For exmaple, t would be interesting
> > to know if a project being run at site A executes task 'foo' more
> > frequently or for longer periods of time than a project being run at
> > site B.  As data is across multiple similar projects, it seems that it
> > could be mined for lots of interesting info to help improve the
> > productivity of future projects.
>
> > Ok - so hopefully you get the idea.  Now for my questions:
>
> > * Does anyone know of existing web apps (django or otherwise) like
> > that already exists?
>
> > * Does this sound like something that would be good to do in Django?
>
> > * Does anyone know of any free/open source software (django based)
> > that I could use as a starting point?  Not being a web developer, I
> > know that if I do this from scratch, I will probably not do a great
> > job.  No doubt there are a ton of intracacies to window layout, the
> > structure of the models, the html templates, and other things I
> > haven't even thought of.  So I'm thinking it would be great to
> > bootstrap from some existing code, even if it doesn't do quite what I
> > want.  I would be happy to contribute my own work back to the open
> > source community.
>
> > Thanks for any ideas!
>
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