Re: Trouble with accents when passing tranlsated string with newforms

2009-03-09 Thread Tipan
> Do you mean they are inserted into the source as "oacute;" and so > the user sees, literally, ""? > Yes. The string has the html code for the accent as you show above. > This could be a bug. Any strings provided by Django itself (and this > includes translated strings, although we don't make

Trouble with accents when passing tranlsated string with newforms

2009-03-08 Thread Tipan
I'm trying to pass a translated string to a select box using a Forms Select widget and it always presents the output string with all the accent HTML entity codes. In my models file, I have a range of subjects: Models.py from django.utils import translation from django.utils.translation import

Re: You don't have permission to edit anything - new forms admin

2009-02-17 Thread Tipan
> >     # Admin: > >     ('^hiveadmin/(.*)', admin.site.root), > > That's no longer the right way to hook the admin into your URL conf. > See here: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev//ref/contrib/admin/#hooking-admi... > > -RD Hi Rajesh, I've been through the documentation you suggested

You don't have permission to edit anything - new forms admin

2009-02-17 Thread Tipan
I'm having some problems with the New Forms Admin that are giving me the error message " You don't have permission to edit anything." when I log into the Admin. I also lose the admin-media so that the page displays on a plain white background. I'm using the latest django release from the trunk

Re: 'blocktrans' doesn't allow other block tags (seen u'plural') inside it

2009-02-05 Thread Tipan
Thanks Arien. It's a subtle difference but clearly I'd read and not understood. Duh! Looks obvious now. Much appreciated.Tim > > You want to use "count" instead of "with" in the blocktrans tag: > >   >>> from django.template import Context, Template >   >>> t = Template(""" >   ... {% load i18n

'blocktrans' doesn't allow other block tags (seen u'plural') inside it

2009-02-05 Thread Tipan
Can anyone explain the strange behaviour I'm seeing in this translation tag. I've translated the whole site and used the {% plural %} tag notation as defined in the documentation, however, I'm getting this error and I can't determine quite what I've done wrong. I'm sure it's me, not a bug, but

Re: Improving the response time in Django Admin

2009-02-05 Thread Tipan
Thanks Karen, that was just the ticket. On Jan 29, 10:52 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Tipan <t...@ortengo.co.uk> wrote: > > I'll go ahead as planned on the Django update and see if this delivers > > any improve

Re: Improving the response time in Django Admin

2009-01-29 Thread Tipan
> > Without specifics, it's a little difficult to say for certain, but one > of the reasons for the switch to newforms and newforms-admin was to > eliminate some very expensive querying behavior in the manipulators > behind forms. This wasn't a matter of one big query that was expensive > - but

Improving the response time in Django Admin

2009-01-28 Thread Tipan
We're running several Django sites on 3 dedicated servers with (1 app, 1 media and 1 data). The sites generally run pretty quickly for users. We are using db caching (we'll be moving to mem_cached in due course) on most views other than those showing specific user data. The site has about 90,000

Re: Path problem with jsi18n - internationalization

2009-01-13 Thread Tipan
> > That's strange, are you succesfully using another component of Django > i18n infrastructure in the same application?. De you have USE_I18N set to > True in the settings file you are using? > Yes. The use_i18n is set to true and I've successfully translated most of my pages, created the .po

Re: Path problem with jsi18n - internationalization

2009-01-11 Thread Tipan
Hi Ramiro, I'm using the latest development version of Django. Apache web server. MySqL/Mod_python, all served from same apache on my laptop. I get a 404 error when I put http:///jsi18n/ into the browser URL. Rgds, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Path problem with jsi18n - internationalization

2009-01-11 Thread Tipan
I'm having a problem accessing Javascript Translation catalog whilst converting my site to multi-language. As suggested in the docs, I have added the following to my applications top level urls file. js_info_dict = { 'packages': ( 'myapp.myproject',), } (r'^jsi18n/$',

Re: Can't pickle error from development version (7825)

2008-07-02 Thread Tipan
Hi Malcolm, I've been back through as you suggested and can trace the problem to revision 7477 which is merging of the Queryset refactor branch into the trunk. Version 7476 works fine with our application. I'll have a play with my view code to see if I can see exactly what is causing the

Can't pickle error from development version (7825)

2008-07-02 Thread Tipan
Whilst setting up a new machine for development I took down the latest development version of Django (7825). I am now experiencing a Pickle error when running my existing application which has been working fine on our production servers for a few months. The error occurs when using the Cache.set

Re: Unicode problem when rendering a template

2007-09-07 Thread Tipan
On Sep 5, 9:28 pm, wolfds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we see the model definition for Reward? Just got back to this and realised I was being a dummy. Whilst I had changed all the def's to unicode, I'd still left some str() functions on the return. Changed these to smart_unicode() and the

Unicode problem when rendering a template

2007-09-05 Thread Tipan
I've recently updated our Django source to the latest version which meant implementing the Unicode handling. In the main all went well, although I'm getting a few decode errors such as: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128) I have

'str' object is not callable - Changing Form object in a view

2007-08-24 Thread Tipan
I have a series of on-line questionnaires, each has a separate Form class defined because the question types and data types for the responses are always different. I'd like to be able to set the form that is used in the view based on an ID parameter passed to the view. However, whatever I try, I

Ordering in Admin change page

2007-07-31 Thread Tipan
I'm sure this is easily answered, but so far the solution has evaded me. I have a table in my model definition eg: class Transaction(models.Model): user=models.ForeignKey(UserProfile,edit_inline=models.TABULAR,num_extra_on_change=0)

Re: Odd behaviour from Signals - dispatcher.connect

2007-06-15 Thread Tipan
On Jun 14, 10:50 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See django/db/models/loading.py, in the register_models() function. > > I'm not 100% certain that will be the right fix, but from reading the > ticket and the model dispatching code, it looked like the right idea. > Not a

Odd behaviour from Signals - dispatcher.connect

2007-06-14 Thread Tipan
I've recently made some modifications to my views/urls and settings files to improve portability of the application. This took out some explicit references to the application files. For example, the line: from test.promotions.models import * was reduced to: from promotions.models import * Now

Re: Avoiding explicit references in application files

2007-06-11 Thread Tipan
> These just override the previous values in each case. They don't append > to them or anything like that. > > PythonPath "['/usr/test/promotions/', '/usr/test/'] + sys.path" > > or something similar is more likely what you want. > > Regards, > Malcolm Thanks Malcolm. That did the

Re: Avoiding explicit references in application files

2007-06-11 Thread Tipan
> It sounds like you just need to tweak your Python path so that things > inside the prod/ or test/ directory (in the appropriate case) are on the > Python path. Something like > > PythonPath "['/usr/prod/'] + sys.path" > > is probably correct. Then "import promotions" will work if >

Re: Style with newforms

2007-05-15 Thread Tipan
Thanks James, that worked a treat. I did have a go at the CSS method before, but clearly couldn't do it at the lowest level. Moving up to the form tag did the trick. Simple really. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Style with newforms

2007-05-15 Thread Tipan
I've a form containing a field with radio buttons that accept a Yes/No response from the user, the field definition is: disp_resp = forms.ChoiceField(choices=[(True,'Yes'), (False,'No')],widget=forms.RadioSelect(), initial=False) When rendered to the template, it produces a bullet point

Case Sensitivity on MySQL searches

2007-05-01 Thread Tipan
I've encountered a problem whereby my searches in the database are not distinguishing between upper and lower case. Having read in other posts about MySQL being case insensitive by default, I have tried using the __exact method to force exact matching, however, this still finds the alternative

Re: Newforms and Hidden Fields - verifying POST data

2007-04-27 Thread Tipan
Having implemented this solution, I'm now getting problems with comparison differences between the hash that I pass in the form as a hidden field and the hash of the data taken from the Form view. If I look at the data before and after, it appears that the data from the form object is using

Re: Newforms and Hidden Fields - verifying POST data

2007-04-24 Thread Tipan
Simon, thanks for this post, it is beautifuly succint and comprehensive and is exactly what I was after. It has also enabled me to clean up my code, if I pickle all the date, I don't need to create a dynamic field form object, 2 fields are all that are required (as SmileyChris pointed out). A

Re: trailing slash added to passed form data

2007-04-20 Thread Tipan
On Apr 13, 6:15 pm, "Ian Clelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/13/07,Tipan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it would seem to me that the "/" in "/>", which closes out the tag, > could be interpreted by the browser as part of the value

Re: new forms - processing the form without rebuilding the entire view

2007-04-18 Thread Tipan
Thanks Guys, I've read through all the links and I can see plenty of scope with Ajax/JSON. I note that most of the solutions use a Javascript toolkit such as Prototype/Dojo/Yahoo/JQuery. Two questions come to mind: 1. Does using the toolkit save a lot of work - what are the main advantages? 2.

Re: new forms - processing the form without rebuilding the entire view

2007-04-16 Thread Tipan
Thanks xav, I thought that the answer might involve both caching and Ajax but I wasn't sure how. I'm not familiar with either so I'll need to go through the documentation. Do you know where I can find some good examples of using these? Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

trailing slash added to passed form data

2007-04-13 Thread Tipan
I've encountered a strange occurence whereby I am seeing a trailing slash added to an item of form data. I am passing a parameter from a template to an inclusion tag {% show_tag %}. This value is then returned from the inclusion tag defintion in a dictionary (return {'form':form, 'value':id})

new forms - processing the form without rebuilding the entire view

2007-04-13 Thread Tipan
I've created a view that is made up of several elements such as main content, sidebar information navigation bar. The main content is derived from specific data dependent on the parameter passed to the view. .../page/3 etc. The view is rendered as a series of template extensions from a master

Re: capturing urls from previous views

2007-04-05 Thread Tipan
canen, Thanks, that's just what I was looking for. Rereading the documentation also enabled me to pick up some other useful stuff. Much appreciated. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django

capturing urls from previous views

2007-04-04 Thread Tipan
I need to capture the url from the previous view to use after processing the new view - I expect there's a simple way of doing this, but I'm not sure of the best approach. I'm thinking about writing to a session cookie or stack when arriving at a view and then recall it when I get to the new

newform processing - template tags and multiple views - Confusion

2007-04-04 Thread Tipan
I want to incorporate a user login form on virtually all of my sites main pages. I felt that the best way to do this was to use an inclusion template tag to display the form on each of the relevant pages. I have a base.html template which is extended using several sub templates. The template tag

Re: Newforms - Dynamic Fields from a queryset

2007-03-16 Thread Tipan
> > >> number_of_meds = kwargs.pop('number_of_meds', 4) > > This is how I optionally passed the number of > fields I wanted to display in the form. If there's > no 'number_of_meds' in kwargs, a minimum of 4 fields > are displayed. The trick is to use kwargs.pop() before > super is called, or

Re: Newforms - Dynamic Fields from a queryset

2007-03-15 Thread Tipan
> I've posted a code snippet that I think addresses your > issue:http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/82/ > Jeff, this was very helpful and I've moved on a bit, I can make your form do exactly what it's supposed to. Howver I'm still struggling to pass my information to the Form class. I note

Newforms - Dynamic Fields from a queryset

2007-03-14 Thread Tipan
I wonder if anyone can give me some pointers. I've been working with new forms with reasonable results, but I've come across a problem when creating a form with dynamic fields and rendering to an HTML template. I want to create a form using data from a queryset which extracts data for a specific

Re: Creating HTML emails

2007-02-16 Thread Tipan
Thanks for the posts - I've checked out the ticket, the patch from which I assume is required to action the calls: from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart from email.MIMEText import MIMEText in Clint's script. In your script, if I assume I pass my HTML to the function as the

Re: new forms - problem populating with data from a table

2007-02-16 Thread Tipan
Thanks for this post it really helped and I've got it working nicely now. Like Honza, I wondered why you copied the post data- but I'm not sure I understood your explanation. Does it give you more flexibility to work with a copy? Rgds, Tim

Creating HTML emails

2007-02-09 Thread Tipan
I've been able to create Plain text emails to send to users with an authentication link which work well, however I'd like to improve the look of these by outputting in HTML with a logo. If I use the send_mail function it simply incorporates the HTML in the plain text. Can anyone point me in the

Creating HTML emails

2007-02-09 Thread Tipan
I've been able to create Plain text emails to send to users with an authentication link which work well, however I'd like to improve the look of these by outputting in HTML with a logo. If I use the send_mail function it simply incorporates the HTML in the plain text. Can anyone point me in the

new forms - problem populating with data from a table

2007-02-09 Thread Tipan
I'm new to Django and a relatively inexperienced programmer. I've started working with the new forms and have been able to take user input, validate it and write it to the table. Really slick and with minimal code. Great. I now want to take an existing user record and create an edit account

Re: Syntax error with render_to_response call

2007-01-25 Thread Tipan
Hi Christian, I think you are right, I was using a PHP IDE as my editor and when I reverted to Notepad, it showed a different layout. I modified it and it worked fine. Really frustrating and such a waste of time. Is there a popular IDE that makes editing quick and easy? Tim

Syntax error with render_to_response call

2007-01-25 Thread Tipan
I have a problem that is causing me some grief and I can't seem to found a reason for it. I'm relatively new to Django and Python so it is likely to be something simple. I have a function that displays a form and some data from a table. If the form data is correct, it generates some new lines of

Re: Problem setting up a separate media server

2006-12-13 Thread Tipan
Thanks all - that makes a lot more sense now. It was definately a case of me looking for too simple a solution in the first place. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

Re: Problem setting up a separate media server

2006-12-13 Thread Tipan
On Dec 13, 1:58 pm, "Waylan Limberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/13/06, Tipan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://192.168.1.9:3000/gobites.jpg;> > > Generally speaking I believe the conventional way to do this when both > servers are on one ma

Problem setting up a separate media server

2006-12-13 Thread Tipan
I need some advice on configuring a separate media server for our jpeg images. We are running Django on Apache 2.2 with mod_python 3.2.10 (python2.5) on a Windows 2003 server. As recommended in the docs, I am setting up a separate web server to serve the media. I've installed Lighttpd 1.4.13

Re: Django and mod_python issues

2006-12-05 Thread Tipan
Thanks for the advice. Adding the line: PythonPath "['d:/program files/xampp/htdocs'] + sys.path" to my httpd.conf overcame the issue with loading myproject module. Simple when you know how. Thanks again, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Django and mod_python issues

2006-12-05 Thread Tipan
I've seen various posts with similar problems, but not managed to find consistent advice on trouble shooting this issue. I've got an installation of xampp Apache 2.2 and mod_python 3.2.10 and Python 2.5. Running on Windows 2003 server. I have mod_python working fine in apache - I can view the

mod_python configuration problem (apache 2.2.2/mod_python 3.2.10)

2006-10-19 Thread Tipan
I'm a newbie to the Django/Python environment and have been working through the tutorials on the project site using the lite server - works fine. I now want to run the same projects on an Apache server using mod_python on a Windows PC. I've followed the installation instructions and have