Worked with admin interface, cleaning up and adding functionality. There are still some strange behaviour that makes e.g. the presence of inlines to auto-create empty database objects for some strange reason. Inlines are turned off at the moment (so there is no convenient way to add attributes from the admin interface at this time). Creating players now work, but one needs to create all three components (User, Player, Character) in one go and tie them together. The User-admin form was changed to also support multi-word usernames (django default didn't allow spaces).

src/help/admin.py

@@ -1,8 +1,24 @@
+"""
+This defines how to edit help entries in Admin.
+"""
+from django import forms
 from django.contrib import admin
 from src.help.models import HelpEntry
 
+
+
+class HelpEntryForm(forms.ModelForm):
+    "Defines how to display the help entry"
+    class Meta:
+        model = HelpEntry
+    db_help_category = forms.CharField(label="Help category", initial='General',
+                                       help_text="organizes help entries in lists")
+    db_lock_storage = forms.CharField(label="Locks", initial='view:all()',required=False,
+                                      widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size':'40'}),)
+
 class HelpEntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
-     
+    "Sets up the admin manaager for help entries"
+
     list_display = ('id', 'db_key', 'db_help_category', 'db_lock_storage')
     list_display_links = ('id', 'db_key')
     search_fields = ['^db_key', 'db_entrytext']
@@ -10,6 +26,8 @@ class HelpEntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     save_as = True 
     save_on_top = True   
     list_select_related = True 
+
+    form = HelpEntryForm
     fieldsets = (
         (None, {'fields':(('db_key', 'db_help_category'), 'db_entrytext', 'db_lock_storage'),
                 'description':"Sets a Help entry. Set lock to <i>view:all()</I> unless you want to restrict it."}),)

src/help/models.py

@@ -42,16 +42,16 @@ class HelpEntry(SharedMemoryModel):
     # named same as the field, but withtout the db_* prefix.
 
     # title of the help 
-    db_key = models.CharField('help key', max_length=255, unique=True, help_text='Key to search for.')
+    db_key = models.CharField('help key', max_length=255, unique=True, help_text='key to search for')
     # help category 
     db_help_category = models.CharField("help category", max_length=255, default="General", 
-        help_text='Organizes help entries in lists.')
+        help_text='organizes help entries in lists')
     # the actual help entry text, in any formatting. 
-    db_entrytext = models.TextField('help entry', blank=True, help_text='The main body of help text.')  
-    # a string of permissionstrings, separated by commas. 
+    db_entrytext = models.TextField('help entry', blank=True, help_text='the main body of help text')  
+    # a string of permissionstrings, separated by commas. Not used by help entries.
     db_permissions = models.CharField('permissions', max_length=255, blank=True)    
     # lock string storage
-    db_lock_storage = models.CharField('locks', max_length=512, blank=True, help_text='Normally view:all().')
+    db_lock_storage = models.CharField('locks', max_length=512, blank=True, help_text='normally view:all().')
     # (deprecated, only here to allow MUX helpfile load (don't use otherwise)).
     # TODO: remove this when not needed anymore. 
     db_staff_only = models.BooleanField(default=False)