All of this stuff is absolutely doable, and in fact I've implemented much of it myself. I don't know if it will cover everything you want, but I've written up some of my most similar Django Admin hacks (I've done quite a bit over the years...) on my blog here: http://joshourisman.com/2009/10/15/django-admin-awesomeness/
That said, 1.2 introduced object-level permissions hooks which are not used in my (Django 1.1) code above: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#object-level-permissions But above all, thanks for sharing this awesome story! I love hearing about the amazing ways that people are using Django, and the way it can facilitate rapid response to actual, serious problems (I think perhaps my favorite, most inspiring Django story was Andy McCay's on how it's being used to fight malnutrition in Africa from DjangoCon http://www.slideshare.net/andymckay/fighting-malnutrition-with-sms-and-django ). As an aside, is there much of a Django community in Iceland? I was there for the first time last Fall and absolutely loved the country; would love to spend more time there. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Ramsey D'silva <[email protected]>wrote: > I believe all the things you mentioned, can be done! It's just a matter of > finding a competent developer. > > Cheers! > > > On 2-Jul-10, at 7:03 AM, Helgi Borg wrote: > > Remember the Eyjafjallajökull eruption that stopped air traffic over >> parts of Europe? The staff at the Icelandic Meterological Office had >> a seriously busy time the first days of the eruption. When I arrived >> at work the first morning, I quickly realized that we needed a simple >> msg-software so the teams of meteorologists, geologists, hydrographers >> and the executives could better synchronize their work. In a few >> hours, I had implemented, tested and deployed a Django app that helped >> a lot. - Django is truly an amazing piece of software. Thank you for >> Django! >> >> The Django app was reasonable good although not perfect. Let me >> explain why… >> >> I needed every user to be able to view messages from anyone. Members >> of the same teams (users of the same Auth. group) needed to be able to >> correct messages from each other for some time until the messages >> automatically locked for changes. >> >> The obvious choose was to use the Contrib Admin. It is robust, fast, >> easy for developers to use, easy for users to get used to and has a >> persistent user interface. In other words it is almost perfect for all >> our data registration usage except that it doesn’t have view >> permissions. The ModelAdmin class would be perfect if it only had view >> permissions (perhaps read permission is a better word). >> >> A dirty solution is to apply change permission to “view only >> permission-users” and then use save_model() to deny these users to >> actually change view-only instances. The practical problem with this >> is that the UI indicates that the user can change something that he/ >> she may not change. >> >> One could argue that I should use something else than Contrib Admin. >> The problem is that there is nothing else as good available. Mixing >> Contrib Admin with other app for view-only purposes results in bad >> usability. Further it doesn’t adhere to the DRY principle to create >> something new when you have something as good as Contrib Admin. >> >> I’ve also created other apps where I’ve needed view permission. These >> are Avalanche registration, Registration of ash fall, Sea ice >> registration, Warning registration and Weather forecasters self >> quality monitoring. Other apps will most likely follow. >> >> I would really appreciate if you could answer the following questions: >> 1) Is there any change that you might consider adding view >> permissions >> to the Contrib Admin? >> 2) If not, may I ask what the reason is? >> 3) Can I add view permissions functionality on top of the Contrib >> Admin without changing its interior, thus avoiding problems on next >> Django update? >> 4) If not, are there many changes planned for the Contrib Admin on >> next release -- would it be wise for me to add it my self? >> 5) I’m new to Django. Am I perhaps getting something totally wrong? >> >> Best regards, >> Helgi Borg >> The Icelandic Meteorological Office >> http://en.vedur.is >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<django-developers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<django-developers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- Josh Ourisman www.joshourisman.com (301) 244-9674 Washington DC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. 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