runekaagaard/django-admin-locking

A Django application that prevents data loss with a focus on contrib.admin.

About

Out of the box the Django administration does not protect its users from the hazards of concurrent editing. django-admin-locking does the following:

• Locks the content in the admin.
• Prevents saving of stale data. This can happen if user A opens a page, user B opens a page, saves and navigates away from the page and user A now saves the page.
• Is helpful towards the users.
• Has a super simple API for use in other apps.

Installation

• Add 'admin_locking' to "INSTALLED_APPS" in "settings.py".

• Add the following to "urls.py":

  (r'^admin_locking/', include('admin_locking.urls')),
  

• Make all your modeladmins extend "LockingAdmin":

  from admin_locking.admin import LockingAdmin
  class MyModelAdmin(LockingAdmin):
      pass
  

Setttings

The following settings are available:

ADMIN_LOCKING = {
        # The number of seconds until a lock is lifted.
        'lock_duration': 60 * 60,
}

API

Can be found here: https://github.com/runekaagaard/django-admin-locking/blob/master/admin_locking/api.py.