Package: django-highrise
This app provides integration between Django and Highrise, which is used to
provide CRM capabilities.Currently this supports only one operation - pushing a user to Highrise.It uses thepyriselibrary fromJason
Ford.Why bother?Django is a great web app framework, it’s not such a good CRM tool. Sometimes
you need a little bit extra. Highrise is a simple CRM product from the guys
behind Basecamp. It allows you to keep tabs on contacts (amongst a lot of
other sales-related stuff), and has a great email integration feature. You can
read more about it athttp://highrisehq.com/signup.Tell me moreThis app simplifies the process of integrating with Highrise. It provides the
API hooks to allow you to push django user records into Highrise, and to read
a Highrise contact’s feed (notes, emails, comments) back out. Where and when
you use these hooks is up to you. It could be at the point of user registration,
it could be through the Django admin site, it could even be from the command
line, run as a batch job overnight.Under the hood django-highrise is a wrapper aroundpyrise, and so the
objects returned are standard pyrise Person, Note, Email objects. This allows
you to use them in your own code, for instance for adding additional attributes
beyond just the core User attributes.The app comes with a single model - HighriseContact. This is used to track
the fact that a User has been synced with Highrise, and to contain some basic
utility attributes that make further integration easier.Network considerationsIt is very important to bear in mind that this app makes a number of calls
across the public internet, and is therefore neither highly performant, nor
immune to standard network connectivity issues. It shouldnottherefore be
integrated in any area of your application where an unexpected 30s network
timeout would cause a problem. i.e. do not include this as a synchronous call
in your registration process.When you sync a User to Highrise two network calls take place: first, a GET is
issued to the API to fetch any possible matches, then, if none are found, a
POST is issued to push the new contact to the API. If you wanted to add further
attributes to the Person and save those back to Highrise, that would be three
network calls.Caveat emptor.ConfigurationThe underlyingpyriselibrary requires a server URL and a valid API key.
These are set by the app when calling theinit()function.The server setting is the URL to your instance of Highrise - e.g.example.highrisehq.com. Highrise API keys are specific to an individual
user - and are available in your account under the ‘My info’ section.You can use thetest_me()method to validate your credentials:>>> from django_highrise import init, test_me
>>> init('example.highrisehq.com', '1234567890')
>>> test_me()
True
>>>NB You must callinit()before using thesync_user()function; an
exception of type HighriseSyncException will be raised if you do not do so.Easiest option is to callinit()in yoursettings.pyfile.Show me some codeInitialise Highrise connection:>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> from django_highrise import init, test_me
>>> init(settings.HIGHRISE_SERVER, settings.HIGHRISE_API_KEY)
>>> test_me()
True
>>>Push a django user to Highrise:>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> user = User.objects.create_user('bob', 'bob@example.com', 'password')
>>> from django_highrise import sync_user
>>> contact = sync(user)
>>> contact
<HighriseContact: bob = 1234567>
>>>Update a person in Highrise from django:>>> contact.person.title = "CEO"
>>> contact.save()Fetch the notes about a contact from Highrise:>>> for note in contact.person.notes:
...   print note.body
...
This is a note
This is another note
>>>Get the Highrise URL for the contact:>>> print contact.url
'https://example.highrisehq.com/people/1234567'
>>>TestsThere is a test suite, and a test_settings.py file that is (I think) the
smallest I could get away with and still run the tests. It includes DATABASES,
INSTALLED_APPS and LOGGING (because django_highrise logs error using logging).
The database setting is for sqlite3, so no additional software is required.The repository includes a modified manage.py and test_settings.py that enable
the tests to be run in isolation (i.e. you could download the source repo and
run the tests direct from the command line usingpython manage.py test).
These files arenotincluded in the package, as it is assumed that the app
will be used within the context of an existing Django site, in which case the
site settings would suffice.