Haystack tweaks for Django 1.7.7. I had to upgrade to Haystack 2.3.1 to get it to work with Django 1.7.7. I also had to update the Xapian backend. But I ran into problems. On my laptop anyway (Ubuntu 14.0.4), xapian gets mad when search terms are greater than 245 chars (or something) when indexing. So I created a custom field that would simply omit terms greater than 64 chars and used this field everywhere I previously used a CharField. Secondly, the custom search form was broken now. Something changed in the Xapian backend and exact searches stopped working. Fortunately the auto_query (which I was using originally and broke during an upgrade) started working again. So I cut the search form back over to doing an auto_query. I kept the form the same (3 fields) because I didn't want to change the form and I think it's better that way.

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('.gcal-del').click(function () {
      if (confirm('Really delete this event?')) {
         var id = this.id;
         if (id.match(/gcal-(\d+)/)) {
            $.ajax({
               url: '/calendar/delete/', 
               type: 'POST',
               data: { id : RegExp.$1 }, 
               dataType: 'text',
               success: function (id) {
                  var id = '#gcal-' + id;
                  $(id).parents('li').hide('normal');
               }, 
               error: function (xhr, textStatus, ex) {
                  alert('Oops, an error occurred. ' + xhr.statusText + ' - ' + 
                     xhr.responseText);
               }
            });
         }
      }
      return false;
      });
});