django-oscar-announcements 0.2.0

Pinax Announcements integration for Django Oscar dashboards

django-oscar-announcements

Staff-managed site-wide announcements for Django Oscar, built on top of pinax-announcements.

Features:

• Dashboard CRUD (Customers → Announcements)
• Info (blue) and Warning (red) levels that match Oscar/Bootstrap alert colours
• Extensible visibility — built-in Everyone, Registered, and Staff audiences; add your own (e.g. Verified)
• AJAX dismiss with no-JS form fallback
• Preview — set audience to Creator only to see it on the public site before publishing to everyone
• Re-send checkbox — clear dismissals so users see it again after an edit
• Auto-delete via cleanup_announcements management command (or cron) when an expiry date passes

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Minimal configuration

Everything below is required for the package to work.

1. Install

pip install django-oscar-announcements

2. INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "pinax.announcements",   # required dependency
    "oscar_announcements",   # must come before oscar.config.Shop
    "oscar.config.Shop",
    ...
]

oscar_announcements must appear before oscar.config.Shop (and its sub-apps). The package ships an override of oscar/dashboard/partials/alert_messages.html that injects announcements into Oscar's <div id="messages">. Django's app-directories loader searches apps in INSTALLED_APPS order, so if Oscar comes first its own partial is found instead and announcements will not appear.

3. Context processor

Add to TEMPLATES[0]["OPTIONS"]["context_processors"]:

"oscar_announcements.context_processors.announcements",

This populates site_announcements in every template context.

4. Dismiss URL

# urls.py
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path(
        "announcements/",
        include("oscar_announcements.urls", namespace="oscar_announcements"),
    ),
]

5. Wire into the Oscar dashboard

Subclass DashboardConfig to register the CRUD views and their permissions:

# myapp/apps/dashboard/apps.py
from oscar.apps.dashboard.apps import DashboardConfig as OscarDashboardConfig


class DashboardConfig(OscarDashboardConfig):
    def configure_permissions(self):
        super().configure_permissions()
        from oscar_announcements.dashboard.urls import permissions as ann_permissions
        self.permissions_map.update(ann_permissions)

    def get_urls(self):
        from oscar_announcements.dashboard.urls import urlpatterns as ann_urls
        return super().get_urls() + self.post_process_urls(ann_urls)

Add a nav entry — the Customers section is index 3 in the default Oscar navigation:

OSCAR_DASHBOARD_NAVIGATION[3]["children"].append(
    {"label": "Announcements", "url_name": "dashboard:announcement-list"}
)

6. Load JS in your base templates

The package automatically injects announcements into Oscar's <div id="messages"> on both the public site and the dashboard by overriding oscar/partials/alert_messages.html and oscar/dashboard/partials/alert_messages.html.

You still need to load announcements.js so the dismiss button works without a full page reload. Create (or extend) both base templates in your project:

{# myapp/templates/oscar/base.html — public site #}
{% extends "oscar/base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block extrascripts %}
    <script src="{% static 'oscar_announcements/js/announcements.js' %}"></script>
    {{ block.super }}
{% endblock %}

{# myapp/templates/oscar/dashboard/base.html — dashboard #}
{% extends "oscar/dashboard/base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block extrascripts %}
    <script src="{% static 'oscar_announcements/js/announcements.js' %}"></script>
    {{ block.super }}
{% endblock %}

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Configuration options

Custom layout on the public site

Purpose: Render announcements with your own markup instead of the built-in Bootstrap alert style.

By default the package overrides oscar/partials/alert_messages.html so announcements appear automatically inside Oscar's <div id="messages"> — you don't need to add anything to your templates.

If you want full control over the markup, skip the automatic partial and call {% get_announcements %} directly in your own template:

{% load oscar_announcements_tags %}
{% get_announcements as my_announcements %}
{% for ann in my_announcements %}
    <p class="oa-announcement--{{ ann.level }}">{{ ann.content }}</p>
{% endfor %}

Add the CSS if your site does not use Bootstrap:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'oscar_announcements/css/announcements.css' %}">

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Anonymous visitors

Purpose: Show an announcement to every visitor — logged in or not.

Set Audience to Everyone (including anonymous visitors) in the dashboard form. Anonymous users see these announcements; authenticated users see them too.

Dismissals for anonymous users are stored in the session (no account required). If the visitor later logs in, the announcement is automatically dismissed.

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Custom visibility audiences

Purpose: Restrict or extend who can see an announcement beyond the built-in Registered and Staff options — for example, paying members.

Register a handler in your app's AppConfig.ready():

# myapp/apps.py
from oscar_announcements.visibility import register
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
    def ready(self):
        register(
            "member",                            # stored value
            _("Members"),                        # label shown in the dashboard
            lambda user: getattr(user, "is_member", False) or user.is_staff,
        )

The new option appears automatically in the dashboard form's Audience dropdown.

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Expiry and automatic cleanup

Purpose: Remove announcements automatically once their expiry date has passed, so the database does not accumulate stale records.

Run the management command from cron or a task scheduler:

python manage.py cleanup_announcements

Example cron entry (daily at 02:00):

0 2 * * * /path/to/venv/bin/python /path/to/manage.py cleanup_announcements

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Development

Setup:

git clone https://github.com/niccokunzmann/django-oscar-announcements
cd django-oscar-announcements
make dev

Run tests:

make test

Run the example site:

cd example
make .venv       # create venv, install deps, run migrations
make superuser   # create a superuser
make test        # run django system checks
make run         # start the dev server at http://localhost:8000

The example wires announcements into the Oscar dashboard via example/example_site/apps.py. Announcements appear inside Oscar's <div id="messages"> automatically — the package ships oscar_announcements/templates/oscar/dashboard/partials/alert_messages.html which overrides Oscar's partial. CSS/JS are loaded in the example via example/example_site/templates/oscar/dashboard/base.html.

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Releases

Edit CHANGES.md, bump the version in pyproject.toml, then tag and push:

git tag v0.1.0
git push --follow-tags