I'm using Django's FlatPages, but I want to be able to restrict admin access to Users based on a FlatPage url. For example, User John Doe should be able to edit any FlatPage objects whose URL begins with `/johndoe/` (such as `/johndoe/about/` or `/johndoe/projects/whatever/`).
For this to work, John Doe would already need the appropriate admin permissions for FlatPage (such as can_add and can_change).
I have set this up as a separate *flatpage_addons* app. It consists of the **Permission** model, which maps a starting URL to one or more django Users. It consists of the minimal necessary admin code so Permissions can be created using the admin.
The bulk of this code consists of the *ifhasflatpagepermission* template tag as well as the *flatpage_result_list* inclusion tag. The former works much like django's existing *if*, *else*, *endif* tags while the latter is modified from the django admin's *result_list* inclusion tag.
This may not be the most elegant solution to my problem, but so far it works for me. Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
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Two template tags (I keep them in an app called "utils") handy for building menus out of flatpages. I only have two levels of hierarchy, and the frontpage is dynamic, so that's what it does. There is some flexibility, however, in that you can change the regex that defines a "root" page.
You can pass it the flatpage object that is normally given to a flatpage template, or you can pass it a string (for any other page).
Deliberatley does not create any markup -- flexibility is key, so it adds the list of root urls or child urls as a name in the current context. You get to pick the name.
Please visit the [GitHub archive](http://wiki.github.com/0sn/nameremoved/flatpages) where i keep this up to date, there's a better explanation and you can see it in use.