I want to display a status message notifying the user the result of an action (e.g. question posted). Does AskBot have a built-in mechanism to achieve this?
From Python can be done this way:
request.user.message_set.create(message=_('You did it!'))
From javascript:
notify.show(gettext('You did it')); //will hang until deleted or the page reloaded
notify.show(gettext('Yeah'), true); //in this case message will flash and fade out
The fade-out effect will be available in the future release, probably 0.7.45.
Caveats - (1) we'll have to switch to using another method of messaging, because this one will be removed from the future Django releases; (2) javascript API can change in the future.
A separate question is - which messages you'd want to show and in what circumstances...
Encouraging messages are great, but should not be shown way too often.
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What do you mean by "status message"? Are you talking about the banner that appears at the top of the page when you receive a badge?