On the Other Hand, a blog by Josh Ourisman.
Should have done this a long time ago
Dec 12th, 2008
Really, this was a pretty major oversight on my part, but I just now finished added a 'status' field to each entry in my blog app. It's a pretty simple thing in and of itself, I just added a tiny bit of code to my Entry model:
STATUS_CHOICES = (
('dr', 'draft'),
('ac', 'active'),
('ar', 'archive'),
)
status = models.CharField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES, max_length=2, default='dr')
And then a custom manager as well:
class EntryManager(models.Manager):
def active(self):
return self.get_query_set().filter(status='ac')
Remembering, of course, to make sure that manager was actually accessible from the model (in this case by adding 'objects = EntryManager()' to my model class).
Once I did that I was able to change the Entry.objects.all() in my view(s) to Entry.objects.active() and now I'm able to write a post and save it without actually publishing! As I said, something of a bonehead move that I didn't do this in the first place.
Since I was messing around in my code anyway I decided to clean up the admin for my Entry model as well. Since I'm the only one who ever uses the admin for my blog, I hadn't bothered to before, but now I've got a little more info available to me when looking at my entries:
class EntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
prepopulated_fields = {'slug': ('title',)}
save_on_top = True
list_display = ['title', 'post_date', 'site_list', 'status',]
list_filter = ('sites', 'status',)
So my admin now looks something like this:
A cool thing there is the 'site_list' column. By default, you can't use a ManyToManyField in the list_display for your model. But I've dealt with this before, and it's only 5 lines of code to make this work:
def site_list(self):
if self.sites:
sites = [site.name for site in self.sites.all()]
string = ", ".join(sites)
return string
Good stuff!
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