Migrating models, many admin tweaks

evennia/help/migrations/0004_auto_20210520_2137.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Generated by Django 3.2.3 on 2021-05-20 21:37
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('help', '0003_auto_20190128_1820'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='helpentry',
+            name='db_staff_only',
+        ),
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='helpentry',
+            name='db_date_created',
+            field=models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, verbose_name='creation date'),
+        ),
+    ]

evennia/help/models.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ forms of help that do not concern commands, like information about the
 game world, policy info, rules and similar.
 
 """
+from datetime import datetime
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 from django.db import models
 from django.urls import reverse
@@ -76,9 +77,8 @@ class HelpEntry(SharedMemoryModel):
         help_text="tags on this object. Tags are simple string markers to "
         "identify, group and alias objects.",
     )
-    # (deprecated, only here to allow MUX helpfile load (don't use otherwise)).
-    # TODO: remove this when not needed anymore.
-    db_staff_only = models.BooleanField(default=False)
+    # Creation date. This is not changed once the object is created.
+    db_date_created = models.DateTimeField("creation date", editable=False, auto_now=True)
 
     # Database manager
     objects = HelpEntryManager()