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Automatically create history database when perticular model is saved.

Project description

Introduction
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This application will create history table for each object in Django

Install
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sudo pip install django-modify-history

or

git clone git://github.com/alisue/django-modify-history.git
sudo pip install django-modify-history/

or download repository and copy it to somewhere in PYTHON_PATH


How to Use
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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
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`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']

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