djangocms-moderation 2.3.0

Provide moderation workflows for content in Django CMS

Installation

Requirements

django CMS Moderation requires that you have a django CMS 4.0 (or higher) project already running and set up, with djangocms-versioning installed.

To install

Run:

pip install djangocms-moderation

Add the following to your project’s INSTALLED_APPS:

• 'djangocms_moderation'

• 'adminsortable2'

Run:

python manage.py migrate djangocms_moderation

to perform the application’s database migrations.

For a guided introduction, see the tutorial in the documentation.

Configuration

The following settings can be added to your project’s settings file to configure django CMS Moderation’s behavior:

Setting	Description
CMS_MODERATION_DEFAULT_COMPLIANCE_NUMBER_BACKEND	Default backend class for generating compliance numbers. Default is djangocms_moderation.backends.uuid4_backend.
CMS_MODERATION_COMPLIANCE_NUMBER_BACKENDS	List of available compliance number backend classes. By default, three backends are configured: uuid4_backend, sequential_number_backend, and sequential_number_with_identifier_prefix_backend.
CMS_MODERATION_ENABLE_WORKFLOW_OVERRIDE	Legacy setting from moderation 1.x; currently has no effect.
CMS_MODERATION_DEFAULT_CONFIRMATION_PAGE_TEMPLATE	Default template for confirmation pages. Defaults to djangocms_moderation/moderation_confirmation.html
CMS_MODERATION_CONFIRMATION_PAGE_TEMPLATES	List of available confirmation page templates. Only includes the default template by default.
CMS_MODERATION_COLLECTION_COMMENTS_ENABLED	Enable/disable comments on collections. Defaults to True.
CMS_MODERATION_REQUEST_COMMENTS_ENABLED	Enable/disable comments on requests. Defaults to True.
CMS_MODERATION_COLLECTION_NAME_LENGTH_LIMIT	Maximum length for collection names. Defaults to 24.
EMAIL_NOTIFICATIONS_FAIL_SILENTLY	Control email notification error handling. Defaults to False.

Example Configuration

Add these settings to your project’s settings file:

# Custom compliance number backend
CMS_MODERATION_DEFAULT_COMPLIANCE_NUMBER_BACKEND = 'myapp.backends.custom_compliance_number_backend'

# Custom confirmation template
CMS_MODERATION_DEFAULT_CONFIRMATION_PAGE_TEMPLATE = 'custom_confirmation.html'

# Enable comments
CMS_MODERATION_COLLECTION_COMMENTS_ENABLED = True
CMS_MODERATION_REQUEST_COMMENTS_ENABLED = True

# Set collection name length limit
CMS_MODERATION_COLLECTION_NAME_LENGTH_LIMIT = 100

# Control email notification errors
EMAIL_NOTIFICATIONS_FAIL_SILENTLY = False

Documentation

We maintain documentation under docs folder using rst format. HTML documentation can be generated using the following commands

Run:

cd docs/
make html

This should generate all html files from rst documents under the docs/_build folder, which can be browsed.