django-modify-history 0.1rc2

Automatically create history database when perticular model is saved.

django-modify-history is a library to create object modification timeline using Django signal

Install

sudo pip install django-modify-history

or:

sudo pip install git+git://github.com/lambdalisue/django-modify-history.git#egg=django-modify-history

How to Use

1. Append modify_history to INSTALLED_APPS

2. run manage.py syncdb

3. Add history_site.py to the app and write like below:

   from modify_history import site
   from modify_history.backends.basic import BasicHistoryBackend
   
   from models import Article
   
   class ArticleBackend(BasicHistoryBackend):
           pass
   site.register(Article, ArticleBackend)

4. Use get_history_timelines template tags for get history list like below:

   {% extends 'base.html' %}
   {% load historytags %}
   
   {% block content %}
   <h2>History</h2>
   <ul>
           {% get_history_timelines as timelines %}
           {% for timeline in timelines %}
           <li>{{ timeline.get_message }} at {{ timeline.created_at|date }}</li>
           {% endfor %}
   </ul>
   {% endblock %}

Settings

HISTORY_ENABLE

Make history enable, to disable history app just set this False

HISTORY_USER_ATTRS

modify_history app find user from target object’s attrs. this is the list of name of attrs. default is ['updated_by', 'user', 'author', 'created_by']