django-timeline-logger

A reusable Django app to log actions and display them in a timeline

Prerequisites

This project uses django.db.models.JSONField, and as such, you need:

• at least Django 3.2+
• a database supporting django.db.models.JSONField
• A modern setuptools version

Installation

Install from PyPI by running

pip install django-timeline-logger

Add 'timeline_logger' to your INSTALLED_APPS.

Run the migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Usage in templates

A custom template tag is provided to render the message of a log entry, for example:

{% extends "timeline_logger/base.html" %}
{% load timeline %}

{% block timeline %}
    <ul class="timeline__list col__22--vw">
    {% for log in object_list %}
        <li class="timeline__entry">
            {% render_message log in_view=True %}
        </li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% endblock timeline %}

This way, you can pass extra context to the template used for the log object.

Documentation

The extended documentation is available on Read the Docs.