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ok, good that i asked:O

Magnus, I have two systems that I develop on.. is it possible to use settings.py to define absolute paths inside url.py?

(I just want to change one file)

this is the custom_filters.py, if anyone could take a look

(just now) User: "where did all my music go?" Me:"I made your profile smaller, now it wont take so long to load over the network. Thanks, BOFH" (her profile was 5GB)

I should just set quotas on everyone's profile folder, heh.

wolfe: create a daemon that scans for media files and nukes them? whitelist people with legit reasons for having media on their accounts

s/daemon/cron job/;

Xorelock: I'm thinking about it

we're not supposed to have music on the network anyway

thats what CDs and mp3 players are for

tell them to store their music on portable externals or thumb drives if they really need to play it out their computer speakers

why aren't queries from connection.queries pasteable?

malibu: check the following blogpost http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/django...

The author of that blog seems to have never heard of reverse URL lookups.

Oh, wait, he does mention it. Then I'm just confused why he's working so hard not to use it.

ok, it seems that my little stupid problem is that it doesn't load this file at all

urugan: Can you import it from a python shell?

urugan: did you put it all in the right place?

is the app its part of in INSTALLED_APPS ?

did you restart the server?

mattmcc: this may be the case :) setting a dynamic project path in settings is a good one hough

did you use {% load %} ?

in settings.py i have my app mentioned in installedapps. in my template i'm using {% load custom_filters %}. i didn't restarted (dev server)

templatetags dir has __init__.py and is inside app folder

ok, i've restarted

thanks, sorry for being such a baby.

tie, thanks for the blog post! Looks good; will have to absorb later

interesting. i've been developing something similar to that myself, actually

(re: the blog post)

So im doing this tutorial http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tuto... . Now im up to the 'Let�s add a custom method, just for demonstration' part near the end. Now, when do i put that code...? Its a bit confusing

joshhunt, that's in models.py

you're adding a custom method to the Poll model

i've actually written half an api that sits on top of django handling a tonne of minor annoyances (granular permissions, exportable app-level settings, automatic global and app-level context augmentation, etc...)

oh ok, so i would add 'import datetime' at the top, and 'def was_published_today(self)' after the unicode part in the Poll class bit?

that's right

:) thanks

np

hey, i have a question about how best to set up my urls for situations when i want to return some subset of data on a filter

for example, if i have a manytomany relationship, and i want to show all results for X where Y could equal (a,b,c, or d) .. i wonder what the url for that should be

/site/xobject?y=a,b,c,d ... or is there a better way?

and given my filters could get quite long, do people sometimes do this with a POST instead ?

jlivni, that looks like the best way

although it might be more typical of django style to have a / after xobject

but really i want to GET my data, not POST anything new, but i also don't want to run over 2k characters in my filter

2k???

ah - right /xobject/filterfield=abcd .. good point

well, after 2k characters in a url IE stops reading

is there a way to control the ordering of fields with ModelForm?

its unlikely but possible someone might select enough filter options to go over that amt.

i explicitly set my fields in Meta: but the order isn't correct

spankalee, the ordering in Meta isn't for the ordering of fields, but for ordering of sets

salkot: huh?

jlivni, if you want to handle that case you might have to do a post, or make some kind of server-side token that represents the search

spankalee, are you talking about using "ordering" in Meta?

no

Meta.fields

ah, maybe a session variable that stores the current search. i think i prefer that to POSTing when I'm actually making a fetch request. thx for that idea

I set Meta.fields = ('field1', etc...) and the ordering is mostly correct, but one many-to-many field keeps showing up last

spankalee, Admin.fields?

no

not using admin

spankalee: defined last in model?

no

my Meta.fields list actually matches the model def. I'm just trying to get that ordering to show up

it's only this one m2m field. possible bug?

a five day work shop for learning django 3500 dollars !?

sweet, where can I sign up to teach? ;o

i'll check trac

$3500!!

is it in the works to set dispatcher hooks on m2m additions/deletions ?

Xorelock: you'd have to go look for a ticket for that

hmm... #6369 is about explicit field ordering, and it's accepted. does that mean it's included in the latest SVN?

No, it means it's accepted.

fixed would mean it was there, of course

accepted just means "yah ok, this seems valid"

ok

I thought you were talking about models, not forms, oops

hey Magus- :D

how do I get the document height? :)

I have Q() fields behaving radically different on my server than on my local machine, any possible causes?

dcramer[]: http://dpaste.com/39527/

er, wait, doc height or window height?

a mix of both, i need minimum of window

max of doc

-.-

the .scrollTop and .scrollHeight will give you values including scrollable

.scrollTop = how far down you're scrolled, .scrollHeight = total possible height

though safari has issues with some of that on textareas

illustir, same versions of django?

i would ask you to advice me on that: i want to have the ability to choose one clientcompany name from larger list, but i want to allow the user to choose it without leaving the current page. first i thought about simply populating the dropdown, but now i know there's going to be quite a lot of these records. So, does anyone have any idea how to solve that? Some ajax webservice-autocomplete-clientname-textbox or maybe some modalpanel

salkot, i hope so, how do i find out?

urugan: There are lots of ajax autocomplete options out there.

urugan, scriptaculous has an ajax autocompleter

illustir, django.get_version()

hrm i did this magus: Math.max(document.documentElement.clientHeight, document.body.clientHeight) + 'px';