Re: Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-20 Thread James Hancock
Wow, thanks for the heads up. Looks like this might do the trick. Thanks, Elder Hancock On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Lukasz Balcerzak wrote: > Hi James, > > You should check out django-authority [1] - as far as I know it is > only row-level perms application with > "logical checks" (rules).

Re: Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-20 Thread James Hancock
Chuck Harmstron, Thanks for the warm welcome and the good advice. I saw that row-level permissions came out with 1.2, but I wasn't sure exactly what it was so thank you for the clarification. While I try and figure it out for my site I will move any questions about how to implement it over to djan

Re: Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-20 Thread Lukasz Balcerzak
Hi James, You should check out django-authority [1] - as far as I know it is only row-level perms application with "logical checks" (rules). Other apps for managing object permissions are listed at djangopackages.com ("Permissions" grid) [2]. Cheers [1] https://bitbucket.org/jezdez/django-author

Re: Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-19 Thread Michael
I developed https://bitbucket.org/mhall119/django-extauth/wiki/Home to accomplish this same kind of scenario, it can either be used as a Django 1.2 backend with support for object/row level permissions, or using it's own API on earlier versions of Django. -- Michael On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 08:57

Re: Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-18 Thread Chuck Harmston
Hi James, Welcome to Django! The terminology that you're looking for is either "row-level permissions" or "object permissions." At a simple level, it allows you to define methods that return a boolean indicating whether the user should be able to add/view/change/delete the object. Fortunately thi

Giving Users Permissions on a Subset of Models

2010-12-18 Thread James Hancock
Django Developers, This is my first post on Django-dev, so I thought I would start with a short introduction. My name is James Hancock, and I love python. Right now I live in Japan, and am developing an application for managing volunteer english classes throughout the country. (You can see the si