On 6 sep, 00:55, Mike Dewhirst <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/09/2011 5:46am, Mario8k wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Does anyone knows some solution (reusable app, snippet or any idea) to > > model an authorization workflow of data? > > > That is... supose that a user have restricted some model field, ie, > > cannot edit directly this field. And now supose that he could request > > to change that field, seeing the real content and editing it, and > > then "save" model. Saving model, doesn't commit the transaction, until > > another user (an administrator) authorize the change (the actual > > commit). > > > Any idea? > > I would consider keeping all the edits in the same record. Then you > could have 'approved' and 'edited' as two versions of the field. For > example, the lower-privileged user edits a copy of 'approved' in > 'edited' and save() just saves it. When the admin eventually approves > it, the 'edited' field gets copied to the real field. >
Thanks mike. Yes i'm consider your suggestion. But i prefer to have the edits in other model, because the original model remains a bit 'clean'. I will evaluate your proposal too. > mike > > > > > > > > > > > A trivial idea is to have another request model replicating the > > structure (or only the restricted fields) of the original one. So, the > > user who need to change the restricted fields completes this new > > model. > > For example: > > > class Foo(model.Models): > > name = models.CharField() > > > class FooRequest(model.Models): > > name = models.CharField() > > > Then we need an action to copy and replace data to Foo from > > FooRequest. > > > The problem with this solution, is that i need it for a lot of models, > > not just one. > > > Thanks for your time, > > Regards, > > > Mario. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
