Goflow

2009-10-02 Thread Todd Blanchard
ect abandoned? Is there another workflow lib for django? I love the admin and am leaning heavily towards django just for this, but I am doing a system with a lot of different classes of users and events and handoffs. -Thanks -Todd Blanchard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

Versionable Models?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Blanchard
that relationship. Anybody done this? Got any tips? Thanks, -Todd Blanchard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegro

Re: Versionable Models?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Blanchard
Great, I was trying to decide between that and "The definitive guide" and guess which one I ordered Back to Amazon... :-/ There's quite a learning curve here. -Todd On Oct 27, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > Todd Blanchard wrote: >> Total d

Re: how to store web page content values in client side?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Blanchard
You shouldn't have to do that. Most browsers cache form state so if a user jumps off your page, then hits back, the form values should all be restored. Try doing nothing and see what the browser does. I'll bet it is what you want. -Todd On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:37 PM, webbo wrote: > > Hi

Re: Versionable Models?

2009-10-27 Thread Todd Blanchard
On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > >> There's quite a learning curve here. > > The learning curve doesn't have much to do with Django, but > rather development in general -- any time you take on a new > technology (or soup of technologies, in this case Python/HTML/CSS > Django's tem

Working the tutorial - and I'm stuck

2009-11-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
What did I screw up? TemplateSyntaxError at /polls/1/ Invalid block tag: 'csrf_token' Request Method: GET Request URL:http://localhost:8000/polls/1/ Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value: Invalid block tag: 'csrf_token' Exception Location: /Library/Python/2.6/site-pac

Re: Working the tutorial - and I'm stuck

2009-11-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
As a total noob - I do that how? On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:14 AM, DrBloodmoney wrote: > Make sure that you have the CSRF middleware installed. > > >> On Nov 3, 2009 12:09 PM, "Todd Blanchard" wrote: >> >> What did I screw up? >> >> TemplateSyntaxErr

Re: Working the tutorial - and I'm stuck

2009-11-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
ddleware', ) I added the last line and restarted the server. Same result. On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > As a total noob - I do that how? > > On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:14 AM, DrBloodmoney wrote: > >> Make sure that you have the CSRF middleware ins

Help a Rails refugee - how to do site specific layouts?

2009-11-12 Thread Todd Blanchard
I like the rails mechanism for specifying page layouts (boilerplate template that surrounds the currently rendered view). Its simple and obvious. I cannot, having read most of two books on django now along with the website stuff, figure out how to do the same thing in django. Also, I'm build

Any users groups around San Diego?

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Blanchard
I'm still kind of struggling to get off the ground with django and think I'd benefit from some face time with other developers. I'm in San Diego. Any resources? -Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

Re: Any users groups around San Diego?

2009-11-21 Thread Todd Blanchard
(not just Django - > but it gets discussed a lot :-)) > > Hope this helps! > > Happy Holidays! > > Best Regards, > Donna 'SnowWrite' Snow > card.ly/snowwrite > > Office Manager, Hacker Dojo > hackerdojo.com > > Owner, C2E Training > c2etraining.com &

Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-23 Thread Todd Blanchard
I've read this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/media/ Nifty. Now, how exactly do I make sure that the media urls get spewed properly into the head section of the page? This is apparently omitted everywhere I've looked. The admin template seems to pull it off properly but

Re: Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
;s in the admin base.html > but you can take a look at if for there media blocks I believe are > something like extrastyle etc... > > {% block extramedia %} > {% if forms %} >{% for form in forms %} > {{ form.media }} >{% endfor %} > {% else %} > {{ form

Re: Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
ight in my head. -Todd Blanchard On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Tim Valenta wrote: > The idea is along the lines of what you initially guessed. > > The admin accomplishes the non-duplicate effect in django/django/ > contrib/admin/options.py, starting at line 770. It loops over the &g

Re: Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
ve_media}) > > Your template: >{% block my_media_block %} >{{ block.super }} >{{ media }} > {% endblock %} > > I fail to see what is so hard about this. > > Tim > > On Nov 24, 4:13 pm, Todd Blanchard wrote: >> You know what, this is

Re: Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
sion is it has all of the elegance of X-windows. It can do anything >>> but out of the box it does nothing except present a zillion confusing parts >>> to the programmer and it has too many mechanisms but no policies. >> >>> I'm beginning to very much pine for

Re: Designing base template - how to include media properly?

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
in the admin but now I'm building my own UI). In fact, I'm pretty fuzzy in general about how code like widgets gets "found" and loaded. -Todd Blanchard On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Tim Valenta wrote: > Sorry-- I got out of sync with the replies. > >> Or am I missing s

calendar.js can't find variable gettext

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
I'm trying to use the date/time entry widgets from admin and I get this javascript error and the controls don't render. Where is this supposed to come from? In annoyance, I have copied the head section precisely from an admin page that work. Still doesn't work in my page.

Re: calendar.js can't find variable gettext

2009-11-24 Thread Todd Blanchard
Blanchard On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > I'm trying to use the date/time entry widgets from admin and I get this > javascript error and the controls don't render. > > Where is this supposed to come f

Re: calendar.js can't find variable gettext

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
Did that, filed it. Ticket #12264 -Todd Blanchard On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Tim Valenta wrote: > > > On Nov 24, 10:32 pm, Todd Blanchard wrote: >> Yep, I solved this by ripping and copying some code out of admin/sites.py >> and adding a url conf for it. >>

Sick of defining urls

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
ittle snippet or recipe to do this generically once and for all? -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send e

More media collection nightmares

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
results in failure. Is there some way to specify order dependency in js files using this mechanism? Otherwise I think it is worthless. -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: More media collection nightmares

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
s on every page as part of the base template. So far so good. Hopefully I won't find any more widgets with surprise dependencies. -Todd Blanchard On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Tim Valenta wrote: > Is it a widget that has the "core.js"? I'd suggest putting that on >

Forms ForeignKeyField does not populate with initial value

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Blanchard
ve rendered the current logged in user's name elsewhere on the page, it is set. But the popup selector isn't getting its selection set right. Any tips? -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To

Re: Forms ForeignKeyField does not populate with initial value

2009-11-26 Thread Todd Blanchard
iceField > (User.objects.all(), widget=forms.HiddenInput()) > > then it should work out ok. I usually hide fk fields to a user if i > want the current request.user object, because I don't want to allow > the possibility for it to be changed. > > On Nov 25, 10:32 pm, Todd Blanchard wro

Re: Forms ForeignKeyField does not populate with initial value

2009-11-26 Thread Todd Blanchard
>> form = IncidentForm(initial={ >>'reporter': request.user.id, makes it work OK. Seems counter-intuitive given the the ForeignKeyField wants to work with objects rather than keys though. On Nov 26, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > I want it to

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-02 Thread Todd Blanchard
string > you've got handy. > > I think that the reason why this latter suggestion doesn't have a > reason to exist is because you've always got to validate all sorts of > stuff very specific to the model. By making one generic view, you're > bound to never r

Using a form to UPDATE a record?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
onary of values, so how to convert a model object to a dict? -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, se

Re: Using a form to UPDATE a record?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
Thanks, that makes the form show up populated. But saving it creates a new record, despite making sure I have id in a hidden field on the form. :-/ On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Rishabh Manocha wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote: >> All the tutorials on form

Re: Using a form to UPDATE a record?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
n_occurred = forms.DateTimeField(widget=widgets.AdminSplitDateTime()) reporter = forms.ModelChoiceField(User.objects.all(), widget=forms.HiddenInput()) id = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput()) class Meta: model = Incident fields = ('title', '

Re: Using a form to UPDATE a record?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
That did it. I figured if the form had a primary key it would do an update. I guess that was wrong. The url is the form you describe, but the dispatcher view method adds the id to the GET of the request to pass it on. So the url for this is actually /incidents/edit/4. Thanks. On Dec 3, 20

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
python, django, postgis, and a whole other raft of technologies all at once. Its a steep curve and I can use all the help I can get. -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, se

Forms - readonly representation?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
Forms seem nifty, but sometimes I want to display the data in the same format but readonly. Is there a to do this? I can't seem to find it. -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
han one. Not DRY at all. Just adding an app to INSTALLED_APPS should make all this other stuff just happen. -Todd Blanchard On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Javier Guerra wrote: > have you considered writing a url pattern generator? if it's handy > enough, it would become quite popul

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
I'm quite aware how the amazon browse service works. I also know it takes a whole team of people to manage it. I'm one guy. :-) On Dec 3, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Sean Perry wrote: > Here is the page on Amazon for Learning Python: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
Oh, I've already come to terms with that. So long as XCode makes indenting easy I'm OK. :-) On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Alex Robbins wrote: > If you start to complain about significant whitespace too, you aren't > welcome to stay either. :) -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: Forms - readonly representation?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
c 3, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > Forms seem nifty, but sometimes I want to display the data in the same format > but readonly. Is there a to do this? I can't seem to find it. > > -Todd Blanchard > > -- > > You received this message because you are s

What apps do besides provide views?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
include it? I definitely cringe when copying an integrated app's templates into my project's template hierarchy. -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to dj

Re: What apps do besides provide views?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
y model vs view (because when I say view - I mean just a function that takes a request, returns a response, and lives in a file called views.py). What am I missing? On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:58 AM, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > On 3 déc, 20:42, Todd Blanchard wrote: >> On Dec 3, 2009, at 10:46

Re: Forms - readonly representation?

2009-12-03 Thread Todd Blanchard
I'd gotten nearly a dozen responses to a later question so I figured the threshold of awareness had passed on this one. Anyhow, I'll check that one out. Thanks. On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > tempted not to respond due to the "deafening silence" comment... did you > imagine

Re: Sick of defining urls

2009-12-04 Thread Todd Blanchard
m no regex maven - I use them seldom and always have to look them up and fiddle around with them for quite awhile to get them right). So, no, I would not be happier with pylons. I'm happy here with this modification, thanks. -Todd Blanchard On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:41 AM, bruno desthuill

Stuck trying integrate jinja2 - need compatibility extensions

2009-12-09 Thread Todd Blanchard
' and the entire app dies) and a few others. I'm stuck. What's the trick to getting compatibility tags for django installed into jinja2? -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post t

attachments vs filebrowser

2009-12-18 Thread Todd Blanchard
I need users to attach arbitrary media files to database records. Attachments seems to do what I need, except that its UI is utterly lame - it should figure out the media type of the file from the extension and display an appropriate thumbnail as well as a way to provide a viewer inline. Also,

Rails-style form value deserializer?

2009-12-18 Thread Todd Blanchard
two' }} this is very handy when updating multiple related objects in a single form submit. Is there a similar facility for django/python or will I need to write it? -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. T

Re: Rails-style form value deserializer?

2009-12-19 Thread Todd Blanchard
ef/request-response/#querydict-objects > for more info. > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > One thing I'm keenly missing from rails is the form input naming convention > that causes the form values to be converted into a hierarchy. For instan

Re: Rails-style form value deserializer?

2009-12-19 Thread Todd Blanchard
Clear as mud. Where does it show how I update two objects in one form? On Dec 19, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Antoni Aloy wrote: > 2009/12/19 Todd Blanchard : >> How does this solve the problem of having two related objects that have the >> same attribute name (like "name") on

Re: Rails-style form value deserializer?

2009-12-19 Thread Todd Blanchard
expanding forms - IOW, allow the user to keep adding books to an Author using DHTML. So far my impression of forms is - ick - lame. -Todd Blanchard On Dec 19, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote: > One thing I'm keenly miss

Re: Rails-style form value deserializer?

2009-12-23 Thread Todd Blanchard
x and the ability to compose forms dynamically and quickly. Thanks for the help. I may pick it up again - but probably not for this project. -Todd Blanchard On Dec 20, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > As for dynamically expanding forms - Django treats that as a client > side pr