Installation overview

Install requirements

A Requirements file gives you a way to create an environment where you can put all optional dependencies which are needed for your Project/Application.

To get started with Django-admin-tools-stats you must have the following installed:

  • python >= 2.4 (programming language)
  • Apache / http server with WSGI modules
  • Django Framework >= 1.3 (Python based Web framework)
  • MySQL-python >= 1.2.3 (MySQL for python language)
  • python-dateutil >= 1.5 (Extensions to the standard datetime module)
  • django-admin-tools (Collection of tools for the django administration)
  • django-chart-tools >= 0.2.1 (A thin wrapper around Google Chart API for charts)
  • django-cache-utils (To provide utils for making cache-related work easier)
  • django-jsonfield >= 0.6 (Reusable django field that can use inside models)
  • python-memcached >= 1.47 (Python based API for communicating with the memcached distributed memory object cache daemon)

Use PIP to install all the requirements,:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

  • Configure admin_tools

  • Add admin_tools_stats & chart_tools into INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        'admin_tools_stats',
        'chart_tools',
        ...)
  • Add following code to dashboard.py:

    from admin_tools_stats.modules import DashboardCharts, get_active_graph
    
    # append an app list module for "Country_prefix"
    self.children.append(modules.AppList(
        _('Dashboard Stats Settings'),
        models=('admin_tools_stats.*', ),
    ))
    
    # Copy following code into your custom dashboard
    # append following code after recent actions module or
    # a link list module for "quick links"
    graph_list = get_active_graph()
    for i in graph_list:
        kwargs = {}
        kwargs['graph_key'] = i.graph_key
        if request.POST.get('select_box_'+i.graph_key):
            kwargs['select_box_'+i.graph_key] = request.POST['select_box_'+i.graph_key]
    
        self.children.append(DashboardCharts(**kwargs))
    
  • Do manage.py syncdb

  • Open admin panel, Configure Dashboard Stats Criteria & Dashboard Stats respectively

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