TaggedField Model: A Guide to the tag management tools#

The django-tag-me library provides a simple centralised tag management model.

  1. TaggedFieldModel: For storing model and tagged field information.

The TaggedFieldModel Model#

The TaggedFieldModel model is designed to store all the data for models with tagged fields.

Tip

These fields are auto populated during the migration process.

The only editable field in this model is the default_tags.

Fields:

  • content (ForeignKey): References the django content id (required).

  • model_name (CharField): References the django model name of the model being tagged (required).

  • model_verbose_name (CharField): Stores the verbose name of the tagged model (required).

  • field_name (CharField): The name of the field being tagged (required).

  • field_verbose_name (CharField): Stores the verbose name of the models tagged field (required).

  • tag_type (CharField): A description of the tag type, user or system (required).

  • default_tags (CharField): A convenience to allow admins to pre-populate user tags with some defaults (optional). Can be added using admin.

Constraints#

constraints = [
      models.UniqueConstraint(
          fields=[
              "content",
              "model_name",
              "model_verbose_name",
              "field_name",
              "field_verbose_name",
          ],
          name="unique_tagged_field_model",
      ),
  ]