Default values when creating new row in Django Admin

dannyr — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:56:08 +0000

In one of the apps I’m developing at work, I wanted to make it easy for our content admins to create a new row in the Django Admin. Most of the time, they need to create a new row that is associated to their own user account. It would save them a couple of steps if the user field is set to a default value. Thanks to my coworker, Dave Ziegler, for helping me figure this out.

Extra tip:
use raw_id_fields in Django Admin. This is especially useful when you have plenty of users. What you’ll see is the id of the user in the text field with a link to look up users next to it (instead of a dropdown containing usernames of all the users).
If you don’t set the raw_id_fields, it would take a long time for Django Admin to load the ‘Change ‘ page since all the users in your database needs to be loaded.

Google Friend Connect & Facebook Connect Code Walk-through

dannyr — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:20:45 +0000

Here is Python code for integrating Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect authentication to your site. I will be updating this post soon. For the meantime, check the source code.

Views.py
facebookconnect.py

googlefriendconnect.py
utils.py

index.html
login.html

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Default values when creating new row in Django Admin

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