Ryan, Is it possible to share your solution to #1? How to create a new post from the user side without going through admin. Thanks, Larry
On Friday, September 15, 2017 at 6:59:50 AM UTC-6, Ryan M wrote: > > > I have been migrating my existing blog to Mezzanine. It has been a great > experience so far. Mezzanine has been able to accommodate all of the > features on my "wish list" so far with the exception of the few "hiccups" > below. Fortunately, I am positive that these outstanding problems can be > overcome, it's just a matter of me learning more about Mezzanine and > Django. I'd appreciate your help! > > 1) > I want to have a "create new post" button that links to a "form" for > creating a blog post. The form will ask the user for a blog post title, > content, and an optional featured image. The featured image will prompt an > upload that must work on smartphones. > So far I am able to get all of this to work except for the image upload > part. I've tried a few different ways of setting it up - in some cases the > upload image button doesn't do anything, in other cases it launches a new > window with the admin content management gui, and with some tweaking i can > get the upload button to work but the site bombs when the "request.FILES" > object is passed. The admin content management gui isn't really ideal > for my blog, i'd prefer for it to go directly to an upload prompt. > > 2) > I added two new columns to my blog_blogPost table in the database, but - > unsurprisingly - these columns are not accessible when I refer to them in > the blog detail or blog list pages. I suspect they need to be added to the > model, not sure how to do that. > > > I am thinking I need to ditch the standard "blog" app and instead make my > own blog app that somehow extends the default blog app. I am not 100% sure > about how to do this, but its on my short list of possible options for > resolving the issues above. > > I am fairly strong with python and web design, but I'm still learning > django. If you steer me in the right direction, I think I can figure it > out. > > Thanks for the help! > Ryan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mezzanine-users/aaaac83c-5d31-42bd-8a42-9c35c5da869d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
