Question

I suppose similar problem would have been discussed here, but I couldn’t find it.

Let’s suppose I have an Editor and a Supervisor. I want the Editor to be able to add new content (eg. a news post) but before publication it has to be acknowledged by Supervisor.

When Editor lists all items, I want to set some fields on the models (like an ‘ack’ field) as read-only (so he could know what had been ack’ed and what’s still waiting approval) but the Supervisor should be able to change everything (list_editable would be perfect)

What are the possible solutions to this problem?

Answer 1

I think there is a more easy way to do that:

Guest we have the same problem of Blog-Post

blog/models.py:

Class Blog(models.Model):
     ...
     #fields like autor, title, stuff..
     ...

class Post(models.Model):
     ...
     #fields like blog, title, stuff..
     ...
     approved = models.BooleanField(default=False)
     approved_by = models.ForeignKey(User) 
     class Meta:
         permissions = (
             ("can_approve_post", "Can approve post"),
         )

And the magic is in the admin:

blog/admin.py:

...
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_protect
...
def has_approval_permission(request, obj=None):
     if request.user.has_perm('blog.can_approve_post'):
         return True
     return False

Class PostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     @csrf_protect
     def changelist_view(self, request, extra_context=None):
         if not has_approval_permission(request):
             self.list_display = [...] # list of fields to show if user can't approve the post
             self.editable = [...]
         else:
             self.list_display = [...] # list of fields to show if user can approve the post
         return super(PostAdmin, self).changelist_view(request, extra_context)
     def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
         if not has_approval_permission(request, obj):
             self.fields = [...] # same thing
         else:
             self.fields = ['approved']
         return super(PostAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)

In this way you can use the api of custom permission in django, and you can override the methods for save the model or get the queryset if you have to. In the methid has_approval_permission you can define the logic of when the user can or can’t to do something.