tpetr / django-ding

django app for automated DING! emails

django-ding

An easy way to send notifications when an object is created (ex. "DING! New User!" emails)

Getting Started

• Add django_ding to your PYTHONPATH
• Add ding to the INSTALLED_APPS list in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
    'ding',
)

• Populate DING dict in settings.py with the models to notify:

DING = {
    'auth.User': {
        # path to template for new object email subject
        'NEW_SUBJECT_TEMPLATE': 'ding/new_object_subject.txt',

        # path to template for new object email body
        'NEW_BODY_TEMPLATE': 'ding/new_object_body.html',

        # list of recipients (NOTE: must be a list, even if just one email address!)
        'RECIPIENTS': ['[e-mail]'],

        # email address to send from
        'FROM': '[e-mail]'
    }
}

Summary Emails

If you don't want to send out an email for every new object, you can instead send out a peroidic summary email. Make sure you have these settings in your DING dict:

DING = {
        'auth.User': {
                # lambda that returns a queryset of objects to summarize
                'QUERYSET': lambda Model, time: Model.objects.filter(date_joined__gte=time),

                # path to template for summary email subject
                'SUMMARY_SUBJECT_TEMPLATE': 'ding/summary_subject.txt',

                # path to template for summary email body
                'SUMMARY_BODY_TEMPLATE': 'ding/summary_body.html',

                # list of recipients (NOTE: must be a list, even if just one email address!)
        'RECIPIENTS': ['[e-mail]'],

        # email address to send from
        'FROM': '[e-mail]'
        }
}

You can trigger the email by running ./manage.py send_ding_summary.