Introduction

This application will create history table for each object in Django

Install

sudo pip install django-modify-history

or

git clone git://github.com/alisue/django-modify-history.git
sudo pip install django-modify-history/

or download repository and copy it to somewhere in PYTHON_PATH

How to Use

1. Append modify_history to INSTALLED_APPS

2. run manage.py syncdb

3. Add history_site.py to the app and write like below from modify_history import site from modify_history.backends.basic import BasicHistoryBackend

    from models import Article
   
    class ArticleBackend(BasicHistoryBackend):
    	pass
    site.register(Article, ArticleBackend)
   

4. Use get_history_timelines template tags for get history list like below {% extends 'base.html' %} {% load historytags %}

    {% block content %}
    <h2>History</h2>
    <ul>
    	{% get_history_timelines as timelines %}
    	{% for timeline in timelines %}
    	<li>{{ timeline.get_message }} at {{ timeline.created_at|date }}</li>
    	{% endfor %}
    </ul>
    {% endblock %}
   

Settings

HISTORY_ENABLE : Make history enable, to disable history app just set this False

HISTORY_USER_ATTRS : modify_history app find user from target object's attrs. this is the list of name of attrs. default is ['updated_by', 'user', 'author', 'created_by']