flatblocks

[jcothran]

I'm working with the Marco github code, my 'explore' catalog page is
loading, but it is missing the 'flatblock' tag content referenced at
https://github.com/Ecotrust/marco-portal/blob/master/marco/fixtures/flatblocks.json

I've tried manage.py syncdb, loaddata, migrate commands to make these
tag references available, but no luck so far in getting the
application to recognize the flatblocks.json content.

Ideas?

[Scott Fletcher]

Hi Jeremy,

The flatblocks fixture needs to be loaded manually.

Which you can do by the following command:

python manage.py loaddata fixtures/flatblocks.json

The reason for this is mainly procedural in that we've anticipated non-developer admins updating the flatblocks (via the django-admin) on the server, and we wanted to lower our chances of accidentally overwriting the changes made by these admins (e.g. through a regular migration).  This way, these admins make the changes on the server, let us know, and we update the fixture manually.

Hope that helps,

-Scott

[Jeremy Cothran]

Hey Scott,

Mucho thanks for the quick fix and info! That did the trick.

Cheers

Jeremy