preserving expoer order in logbook entries attempt 1

core/models/logbooks.py

@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ def writelogbook(year, filename):
     # print(f'Logbook exported to {filepath}')
     
 class PersonLogEntry(TroggleModel):
-    """Single Person going on a trip, which may or may not be written up.
-    It could account for different T/U for people in same logbook entry.
+    """Single Person going on a trip.
+    In future it could account for different T/U for people in same logbook entry.
     
     CASCADE means that if the personexpedition or the logbookentry is deleted,
     then this PersonLogEntry is deleted too
@@ -150,8 +150,11 @@ class PersonLogEntry(TroggleModel):
     nickname_used = models.CharField(max_length=100,default="") # e.g. "Animal" or "Zonker", as it appears in the original logbook
 
     class Meta:
-        ordering = ("-personexpedition",)
-        # order_with_respect_to = 'personexpedition'
+        ordering = ("nickname_used", "-personexpedition") 
+        # order_with_respect_to = 'personexpedition' and then with nickname
+        # within the same logbook entry (which will always be the same expedition) this will
+        # now not re-order the participants in a trip every time we save the logbook.
+        # but this does not work.. need a function
 
     def next_personlog(self):
         futurePTs = (

core/views/uploads.py

@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ def logbookedit(request, year=None, slug=None):
                     + str(lbe_commit.returncode)
                 )
                 message = (
-                    f"! - FORM Logbook Edit -Error code '{lbe_commit.returncode}' with git on server for {filename}. {slug} edits saved, added to git, but NOT committed.\n"
+                    f"! - FORM Logbook Edit - Error code '{lbe_commit.returncode}' with git on server for {filename}. {slug} edits saved, added to git, but NOT committed.\n"
                     + msgdata
                 )
                 print(message)

templates/logbook2005style.html

@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
 <meta name="keywords" content="NOEDIT">
 <style>figure {font-weight: bold; font-size: small; font-family: sans-serif;font-variant-caps: small-caps;}</style>
 </head>
-<!-- Exported by troggle in this format after having been imported using a different format and a different 
-parser. This is because we are steadily converting old formats to a new common format so that we do not need to 
-maintain half a dozen parser functions. 
+<!-- Exported by troggle because one entry has been edited, and we reconstruct the whole thing. 
 
 Sorry about all the crap that surrounds the image tags which has been imported along with the content
 when UK Caving blogs have been parsed.