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A simple Django app for newsticker with a row level permission based workflow.

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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.

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