django-featured-item

Mark a single record in a model as featured


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Install
pip install django-featured-item==0.4.1

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django-featured-item

Set up a model so that only one record can be featured at a time.

Think of the featured story on a news site. Only one article may be featured at a time. Similar to this, only one record have have a featured field be true at a time.

Models can have more than one featured field. Only one record can hold the featured spot per field.

Setup

  1. Add featured_item to your INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLEDAPPS += ( 'featureditem', )

Usage

Add a FeaturedField to your model:

from django.db import models
from featured_item.fields import FeaturedField

class Story(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    body = models.TextField()

    featured = FeaturedField()

That is it! Now, only one record in model can have featured = True.

You can have multiple FeaturedFields per model:

class Story(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    body = models.TextField()

    home_page_feature = FeaturedField()
    side_bar_feature = FeaturedField()

A featured item field can be unique amongst a subset of the collection, by using the unique_on option. In the following example, each Author can have one featured Book. There could be multiple featured Books in the whole collection, but only one per Author:

from django.db import models
from featured_items.fields import FeaturedField

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

class Book(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
    featured = FeaturedField(unique_on=('author'))