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']