django-admin-tools 0.5.0

Important information if you are upgrading from a previous version

This release of django-admin-tools introduces support for south database migrations, if you are not using south you can skip this step.

Existing django-admin-tools should do the following:

python manage.py migrate --fake admin_tools.dashboard
python manage.py migrate --fake admin_tools.menu

New users should do:

python manage.py migrate admin_tools.dashboard
python manage.py migrate admin_tools.menu

Major changes

• big improvements of the API (see the dashboard and menu documentation for details), the old API is still supported but now deprecated;

• added a ModelList menu item;

• custom and multiple admin sites basic support;

• better integration with django-grappelli;

• django south support.

Bugfixes and minor changes

• Fixed issue #40 (python 2.5 compatibility);

• Fixed issue #49: disable rendering of empty group modules;

• Fixed issue #51: more robust test runner;

• Fixed issues #57 and #58: updated custom dashboard and menu template files to reflect the current code;

• Fixed issue #60: explicitely set color for links in module content;

• Some fixes for the future django 1.3;

• Fixes issue #61: Create empty preferences instance if user has no preferences saved yet.

• Fixed issue #62: updated base template to reflect django 1.2 changes;

• Fixed various js namespace pollutions;

• Improved docs;

• CZ locale support.

For more informations please see: http://bitbucket.org/izi/django-admin-tools/changesets

Major changes

• added tests infrastructure, code coverage is around 70%;

• import paths and class names are changed. Old class names and paths are deprecated but still work;

• dashboard.modules.AppList, dashboard.modules.ModelList and menu.items.AppList now have ability to display any models from different apps (using glob syntax) via models and exclude parameters. The order is now preserved. See #15;

• implemented dashboard module groups : you can now group modules in tabs, accordion or in a stacked layout.

Bugfixes and minor changes

• moved the menu and dashboard template dirs in a “admin_tools” directory to avoid name conflicts with other apps, for example: django-cms (see: http://github.com/digi604/django-cms-2.0/issues/issue/397/);

• fixed bookmark bugs. The saved url was urlencoded, so we need to decode it before we save it. Added a clean_url method to the BookmarkForm. Fixes #25;

• build urlpatterns conditionally regarding the content of INSTALLED_APPS;

• better display of selected menu items;

• avoid a useless ajax GET request for retrieving dashboard preferences;

• upgraded jquery and jquery ui and renamed the files to more generic names;

• don’t show bookmark form if NoReverseError. This was breaking the django.contrib.auth unit tests;

• fixed url lookup for remove bookmark form;

• fixed issue #26 (menu bar showing for non-staff users) and also updated templates to match the django 1.2 templates;

• fixed issue #29 : Django 1.2 admin base template change;

• changed the way js files are loaded, hopefully now they are loaded syncronously (fixes issue #32);

• fixed issue #33: empty applist menu items should not be displayed;

• fixed issue #34: can’t drag modules into an empty column;

• fixed issue #35 (wrong docstring for menu).

New class names and paths

admin_tools.dashboard:

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.Dashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.Dashboard

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.DefaultIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.DefaultIndexDashboard

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.DefaultAppIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.DefaultAppIndexDashboard

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.AppIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.AppIndexDashboard

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.DashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.DashboardModule

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.AppListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.AppList

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.ModelListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.ModelList

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.LinkListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.LinkList

• admin_tools.dashboard.models.FeedDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.Feed

admin_tools.menu:

• admin_tools.menu.models.Menu => admin_tools.menu.Menu

• admin_tools.menu.models.DefaultMenu => admin_tools.menu.DefaultMenu

• admin_tools.menu.models.MenuItem => admin_tools.menu.items.MenuItem

• admin_tools.menu.models.AppListMenuItem => admin_tools.menu.items.AppList

• admin_tools.menu.models.BookmarkMenuItem => admin_tools.menu.items.Bookmarks

Backwards incompatible changes in 0.2.0

Now, django-admin-tools stores menu and dashboard preferences in the database, so you’ll need to run syncdb and to add the django-admin-tools urls to your urlconf. These steps are described in details in the documentation. You’ll also need to add admin_tools to your INSTALLED_APPS for the locales to work (this was not documented in previous versions).