How to use (for admin-users)

All moderation activities can be performed from within the admin interface itself. Following sections describe the process in detail. The figures are based on an example app, TestApp with models like Author and Book.

Who can moderate

Django-monitor creates a moderate permission for each moderated model. To moderate any object of a model, user need to have permission for that particular model. The superuser must assign those permissions to the appropriate users as they would do with other permissions.

What to moderate & from where

To see and moderate the pending/challenged objects of a particualr model, visit the change-list page of that model. By default, all existing objects appear there. For moderated models, we add one more column, status to the right of each row. That column, as its name indicates, displays the current moderation status of each object you see in the list. This helps you to identify the pending as well as challenged objects. See the figure:

Status column

Also, you can filter the objects by moderation status using the options provided in the box to the right of change-list. Refer to the figure below:

Filter

You need not regularly visit change-lists of all models to know whether there are any objects to be moderated. Moderation Queue is the shortcut for this. It will summarize the moderation status for all models in one page. In your admin home page there is a Moderation Queue change-link under Monitor app. See the figure:

Moderation Queue change-link

Clicking on it will lead you to a moderation queue page from where you can see a nice table listing out the number of pending and challenged objects for each moderated model. An example figure is given below:

Moderation Queue page

Note that the pointer points to the number 2 in the figure. This number indicates that there are 2 pending Author objects now. Click on that number and you will be lead to the Author change-list where you can see both of the pending objects. Similarly, you can find pending/challenged objects of any model from here.

How to moderate

Moderation is performed through 3 special change-list actions. They are, Approve selected, Challenge selected and Reset selected to pending. The figure below shows the actions found in Author changelist:

Moderation actions

If the manager selects few objects, chooses the action Approve selected and presses Go, those objects will get approved. Similarly, one can challenge objects too. Once some objects get challenged, the non-managers may check them again and make required corrections. After that, they can reset the status to In pending using the action, Reset selected to pending so that their manager gets to verify the entries again.