fixed announcement app bug with WidgetUser

widget_bigdjangoenergy/announcements/migrations/0002_alter_announcement_author.py

+# Generated by Django 3.2 on 2023-03-02 08:53
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+import django.db.models.deletion
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('dashboard', '0001_initial'),
+        ('announcements', '0001_initial'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='announcement',
+            name='author',
+            field=models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='dashboard.widgetuser'),
+        ),
+    ]

widget_bigdjangoenergy/announcements/models.py

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ from django.urls import reverse
 class Announcement(models.Model):
     title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
     body = models.CharField(max_length=700)
-    #author = models.ForeignKey("dashboard.WidgetUser", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
-    author = models.CharField(max_length=200)
+    author = models.ForeignKey("dashboard.WidgetUser", on_delete=models.CASCADE)
     pub_datetime = models.DateTimeField()
 
     def __str__(self):

widget_bigdjangoenergy/announcements/views.py

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ def index(request):
 
     response = "Big Django Energy - Announcement Board<br><br>Announcements:<br>"
     for announcement in all_announcements:
-        announcementpubdate = announcement.pub_datetime.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S") +", " #TO_DO: fix timezone
-        response = response + announcement.title + " by " + announcement.author.first_name + " " + announcement.author.last_name #TO_DO: widgetUser functionality (parsing author info)
+        announcementpubdate = announcement.pub_datetime.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S") +", "
+        response = response + announcement.title + " by " + announcement.author.__str__()
         response = response + " published " + announcementpubdate + "<br>"
         response = response + announcement.body + "<br>"
         for reaction in all_reactions: