Re: How do I change a global setting from inside middleware?

Django settings cant be changed on the fly. 

From the official documentation:

> You shouldn't alter settings in your applications at runtime. For example, don't do this in a view:

I think the solution for your problem is to set or update  'grappelli_admin_title'  context variable from the middleware or from a custom context processor.

Looking at Grappellis code it seems this is the relevant code for your problem:

grappelli/templates/admin/base.html

<h1 id="grp-admin-title">{% if grappelli_admin_title %}{{ grappelli_admin_title }}{% else %}{% get_admin_title %}{% endif %}</h1>

Using context processors is the best practice for this kind of problems. For example:

def admin_title(request):

    """

        Adds media-related context variables to the context.

    """

    user_company_name = request.user.company_name

    return {'grappelli_admin_title': user_company_name, }

Regards

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Richard E. Cooke <rcooke1963@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using Grappelli to spruce up my Admin interface.

I would like to customize the site name (and web page tittle).

I have this in my project settings.py file:

# http://django-grappelli.readthedocs.org/en/latest/customization.html
GRAPPELLI_ADMIN_TITLE = "The Default Company"


And in my middle ware I try to change it to match the company name of the connecting user:
(This code snipped is abbreviated, don't try and copy and paste it into a file and run it!)

from django.conf import settings
def process_request(self, request):
    settings.GRAPPELLI_ADMIN_TITLE = request.user.myuser.site.name

But it seems to be a crap shoot if the title gets changed to the right value, or changed at all!

More shared memory consequences?

I could not find a "best practice" for this.  So, I suspect there is a "better way" I'm hoping somebody can enlighten me.

Thanks in advance,
Rich.

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