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https://github.com/praekelt/django-preferences

Django app allowing users to set app specific preferences through the admin interface.
https://github.com/praekelt/django-preferences

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Django app allowing users to set app specific preferences through the admin interface.

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Django Preferences
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**Django app allowing users to set app specific preferences through the admin interface.**

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Provides singleton admin views for Preferences objects and a simple interface to preference values.
Singleton views ensure only one preference instance per site is available for each ``Preferences`` class.

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**Requires** and supports `Django's "sites" framework `_, which means you can have multiple preferences, each associated with a particular site.

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Requirements
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#. Python 2.7, 3.5-3.7

#. Django 1.11, 2.0, 2.1

#. django.contrib.sites

Installation
------------

#. Install or add ``django-preferences`` to your Python path.

#. Add ``preferences`` to your ``INSTALLED APPS`` setting.

#. Add ``django.contrib.sites`` to your ``INSTALLED APPS`` setting. django-preferences associates preferences to specific sites and thus requires Django's "sites" framework to be installed.

#. Optionally, add ``preferences.context_processors.preferences_cp`` to your template option settings. This will automatically add a ``preferences`` variable to your template context::

TEMPLATES = [{
...
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
...
'preferences.context_processors.preferences_cp',
],
},
}]

Usage
-----
To create preferences for your app create a Django ORM model as usual, with the model inheriting from ``preferences.models.Preferences``. Also specify ``preferences.models`` as your model's module::

from django.db import models
from preferences.models import Preferences

class MyPreferences(Preferences):
portal_contact_email = models.EmailField()

Admin classes are specified as per usual, except that they have to inherit from or be registered with ``preferences.admin.PreferencesAdmin``, i.e.::

from django.contrib import admin

from preferences.admin import PreferencesAdmin
from .models import MyPreferences

admin.site.register(MyPreferences, PreferencesAdmin)

When your model is registered with admin it will show up under the *Preferences* app label in Django admin.

Preferences can be accessed in Python by importing the ``preferences`` module and traversing to your required preference in the form ``preferences..``, i.e.::

from preferences import preferences

portal_contact_email = preferences.MyPreferences.portal_contact_email

If you've specified the ``preferences.context_processors.preferences_cp`` as a `TEMPLATES `_ you can similarly access your preferences within templates through the ``preferences`` variable, i.e.::

{{ preferences.MyPreferences.portal_contact_email }}