I'll look over it and give it a shot! (I found your stuff prior to
posting, but I was in a "I NEED HALP QUICK HOW DO SACTHMO????" mode,
and not a "I should read this for understanding" mode)

For the time being, does my settings.py at least look correct ?
Somehow I have a feeling I goofed something in there, or with my
imports

Thanks

On Aug 18, 10:45 am, Bob Waycott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've personally never liked this method of creating Custom Products.
> If you'd like another approach, check out my posts, Satchmo Diaries, at
>
> http://thisismedium.com/tech
>
> Start with Part One. It provides the overview of how I create custom
> products & the others show a more in-depth look at how to use signals to
> provide various kinds of extra functionality.
>
> Best,
>
> Bob Waycott
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Lagg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get a custom product setup. The only thing this custom
> > product will add to product is a
> > many-to-many field so that customers can choose up to 10 different
> > colors on the same item.
> > (Think tie-dye t-shirt or something like that).
>
> > Eventually I'll want to let the customer choose these colors with a
> > series of checkboxes, but there won't need to be any color selection
> > done via admin.
> > (Also, I'm going to create the availble colors via sql script, so no
> > need to do much for that aspect, except for making another class so
> > the model.manytomanyfield('colors') will work.)
>
> > For the time being, I just want to add a generic custom product so I
> > can understand the process.
> > I tried to follow the directions here:
> >http://www.satchmoproject.com/docs/svn/custom-product.html
>
> > Unfortunately I can't seem to get right.  When I go to "Product
> > Settings" and look at the list of products, I don't see "MyNewProduct"
> > in the list.
>
> > I'm going to list what I did, what I have and maybe
> > somebody can help me.
> > (just a warning: I'm pretty new to python, django and satchmo, so
> > don't be surprised if there is something really stupid going on here)
>
> > file structure:
>
> > store/
> > -static/
> > -templates/
> > -custom_product/
> > --->models.py
> > --->config.py
> > --->admin.py
> > -local_settings.py
> > -settings.py
> > -manage.py
> > -urls.py
> > -satchmo.log
>
> > (my awful diagram is trying to show that my project folder is called
> > "store" and inside "store" is a folder ,created via "manage.py
> > startapp custom_product",  called "custom_product". Inside of
> > custom_product are files models.py, config.py and admin.py)
>
> > custom_product/models.py
> > ------------------------
> > from django.db import models
> > from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
> > from product.models import Product
>
> > class MyNewProduct(models.Model):
> >    product = models.OneToOneField(Product, verbose_name=_('Product'),
> >        primary_key=True)
>
> >    def _get_subtype(self):
> >        return 'MyNewProduct'
>
> >    def __unicode__(self):
> >        return u"MyNewProduct: %s" % self.product.name
>
> >    class Meta:
> >        verbose_name = _('My New Product')
> >        verbose_name_plural = _('My New Products')
>
> > --------------------------
>
> > custom_product/config.py
> > ---------------------------
> > from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
> > from livesettings import config_get
>
> > PRODUCT_TYPES = config_get('PRODUCT', 'PRODUCT_TYPES')
>
> > # TODO: Replace app name!
> > PRODUCT_TYPES.add_choice(('custom_products::MyNewProduct', _('My New
> > Product')))
> > -----------------------------
>
> > custom_product/admin.py
> > ----------------------------
> > from django.contrib import admin
> > from store.custom_products.models import MyNewProduct
>
> > admin.site.register(MyNewProduct)
> > ----------------------------
>
> > settings.py -
> > --------------------------
> > installed_apps and satchmo_settings area:
> > INSTALLED_APPS = (
> >    'django.contrib.sites',
> >    'satchmo_store.shop',
> >    'django.contrib.admin',
> >    'django.contrib.auth',
> >    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
> >    'django.contrib.comments',
> >    'django.contrib.sessions',
> >    'django.contrib.sitemaps',
> >    'registration',
> >    'keyedcache',
> >    'livesettings',
> >    'l10n',
> >    'sorl.thumbnail',
> >    'satchmo_store.contact',
> >    'tax',
> >    'tax.modules.no',
> >    'tax.modules.area',
> >    'tax.modules.percent',
> >    'shipping',
> >    'product',
> >    'payment',
> >    'payment.modules.giftcertificate',
> >    'satchmo_utils',
> >    'app_plugins',
> >    'store.custom_products'
> >   )
>
> > #### Satchmo unique variables ####
> > #from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include
> > SATCHMO_SETTINGS = {
> >    'SHOP_BASE' : '',
> >    'MULTISHOP' : False,
> >    'CUSTOM_PRODUCT_MODULES' :
> > ['store.custom_products.model.MyNewProduct'],
> >    }
>
> > ---------------------------
>
> > (of course after making these changes I run "python manage.py
> > syncdb" . Syncdb tells me it's making stuff for "MyNewProduct", so at
> > least that part is working)
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