djangocms-article-drafts

Working title for a generic publishing app to integrate with divio/djangocms-moderation.

The goal is to provide generic publish functionality to Articles as well as Pages.

Installation

We need to install the djangocms and then add this repository as a dependency:

1. Create and activate new virtual env, e.g.

   mkvirtualenv testenv

2. Create a project folder, e.g.

   mkdir ~/workspace/testproject/

3. cd ~/workspace/testproject

4. Install djangocms

   pip install djangocms-installer

5. Setup djangocms, e.g.

   djangocms -f -p . testsite

6. pip install djangocms_helper

7. Add the following email settings to settings.py

    # This will ensure that emails will be printed to the console instead of real send
    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

9. Fork https://github.com/trojjer/djangocms-article-drafts

10. Clone yours djangocms-article-drafts app from github into separate folder, e.g. ~/workspace/djangocms-article-drafts/

11. Go to the main project folder cd ~/workspace/testproject and install the package from your local folder

    pip install -e ~/workspace/djangocms-article-drafts/

12. Add djangocms_article_drafts and adminsortable2 to the INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

13. python manage.py migrate

14. python manage.py test djangocms_article_drafts

Now you can make changes to your local ~/workspace/djangocms-article-drafts/ repository and changes will be reflected in your testproject.