django-one-time-notices

Displays a modal with notice content if a user hasn't seen it yet.

Install

pip install django-one-time-notices

Settings

Add to INSTALLED_APPS:

django.contrib.auth
django.contrib.admin
...
notices

Add to TEMPLATES['OPTIONS']:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                ...
                'django.core.context_processors.request'
                ...
                'notices.context_processors.notices',
            ]
        }
    }
]

To customise the notice colour (button and title border), add

NOTICES_COLOUR=<colour>  # any css-acceptable colour

Static assets

Add notices/css/notices.css and notices/js/notices.js to your markup.

Usage

In templates, load the tags:

{% load notices_tags %}

and add the modal:

{% NoticesModal %} 

The modal will be shown. Once it has been dismissed it won't be shown again unless the notice version changes (see below), the notice_seen cookie is deleted, or the notice timeout is reached.

Setting/updating the notice

via models and django admin

Add a Notice instance in the django admin.

Notices have title, content, version and optional timeout_seconds, starts_at and expires_at fields.

Version can be any positive number; it defaults to incrementing the last version number. Set the expires_at datetime to avoid showing this notice after the specified date, even if the user has never seen/dismissed it. Set the starts_at datetime to avoid showing the notice until a particular date/time.

Note that only the notice with the latest version will be shown. If the latest version has not started yet, a previous version will not be shown, even if it hasn't expired.

Set the timeout_seconds to set a cookie timeout; this means the notice will be reshown.

To show a new notice, add another Notice instance with an incremented version number.

via django settings

Override the Notice model by adding to your settings.py: NOTICES_VERSION # an integer NOTICES_TITLE # optional, default = "New!" NOTICES_CONTENT # optional, default = "" NOTICES_TIMEOUT_SECONDS # optional, default = None

Set NOTICES_VERSION = 0 to clear the cookie and disable showing notices at all.