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diff --git a/docs/faq/admin.txt b/docs/faq/admin.txt index c23bdd1fe9..4c7b570f00 100644 --- a/docs/faq/admin.txt +++ b/docs/faq/admin.txt @@ -37,20 +37,19 @@ Set the :setting:`CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY` setting to ``True``. See the How do I automatically set a field's value to the user who last edited the object in the admin? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -At this point, Django doesn't have an official way to do this. But it's an oft-requested -feature, so we're discussing how it can be implemented. The problem is we don't want to couple -the model layer with the admin layer with the request layer (to get the current user). It's a -tricky problem. - -One person hacked up a `solution that doesn't require patching Django`_, but note that it's an -unofficial solution, and there's no guarantee it won't break at some point. - -.. _solution that doesn't require patching Django: http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301634 +The :class:`ModelAdmin` class provides customization hooks that allow you to transform +an object as it saved, using details from the request. By extracting the current user +from the request, and customizing the :meth:`ModelAdmin.save_model` hook, you can update +an object to reflect the user that edited it. See :ref:`the documentation on ModelAdmin +methods <model-admin-methods>` for an example. How do I limit admin access so that objects can only be edited by the users who created them? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -See the answer to the previous question. +The :class:`ModelAdmin` class also provides customization hooks that allow you to control the +visibility and editability of objects in the admin. Using the same trick of extracting the +user from the request, the :meth:`ModelAdmin.queryset` and :meth:`ModelAdmin.has_change_permission` +can be used to control the visibility and editability of objects in the admin. My admin-site CSS and images showed up fine using the development server, but they're not displaying when using mod_python. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |