django-ticker

django-ticker is a reusable Django application that provides a ticker like news section including row level permissions. What does this mean?

In django-ticker you have a fine grained permission control what the (administrative) user can do and what not. Besides the default Django permissions – add, change, delete – there are some extra permissions:

• change_foreign

• publish

Originally this was created for the news section of the German Django community where foreign users could add articles but had no permission to publish them, cause a moderator must check these articles first.

It’s easy to create a pressroom like workflow, assumed we have different people with different permissions:

The freelance journalist:

Granted permissions: add, change

• can add articles

• can change his articles (only his own)

• can not delete his articles

• can set the status of the article to “closed” or “draft”. Draft means, that the article is ready for check by a moderator.

• in the admin list of articles, they see only they own

The journalist:

Granted permissions: add, change, delete, publish

• can add articles

• can change and delete his articles (only his own)

• can set the status of the article to “closed”, “draft” or “published”

• in the admin list of articles, they see only their own

The chief editor (or moderator):

Granted permissions: add, change, delete, publish, change_foreign

• can add articles

• can change and delete all (!) articles

• can set the status of the article to “closed”, “draft” or “published”

• in the admin list of articles, they see all articles

The proofreader (or subject specialist):

Granted permissions: change, change_foreign

• can not add articles

• can not delete articles

• can not publish articles

• can change all articles (e.g. for correction)

• in the admin list of articles, they see all articles

So, you can mix these permissions and create a workflow that perfectly fits your needs.