This really helps! It was so simple. Thanks. El viernes, 15 de septiembre de 2017, 10:38:01 (UTC-5), Melvyn Sopacua escribió: > > If you're failry strong in python, but not Django and are working with > Mezzanine, then you do need to do some digging into Django. And here's > the main pointers: > > - Models are classes that represent the database structure. They can > be extended, they can be marked abstract, but the primary thing to > remember is that model **fields** cannot be overwritten. Model fields > being attributes of the class that are extending > django.db.models.Field. The represent table fields and therefore are > actively prevented from being extended. > - Database tables are migrated using Django migrations. In general > it's not necessary to know the database structure let alone even touch > it. This is only needed for specialized cases, optimizations and > legacy databases. > - Django form fields have a widget kwarg in their __init__, which can > be used to override the widget at runtime. Additionally, the Django > Form class has a metaclass attribute "widgets" which is a dictionary > mapping field names to widgets. > > These points are all accessible from > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ and quite a bit of it covered > in the tutorial. > > Mezzanine: >> - A blog image is already available, when the following is activated >> in settings: >> >> # Setting to turn on featured images for blog posts. Defaults to False. >> # >> # BLOG_USE_FEATURED_IMAGE = True > > - The default widget for a Mezzanine FileField is from > filebrowser_safe. It should be possible to set this to > django.forms.ClearableFileInput, though I've not tried it. > > Hope this helps. > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Ryan M <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Melvyn Sopacua >
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