Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread phred78
I followed Karen and TiNo's suggestion and added this to the Product class: def __unicode__(self): return ("%s | %s") % (self.title, self.language) It works. When listing products in classes that have "product" as a ManyToManyField, it lists them in the select box, just as I wanted. But

Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread TiNo
I know ModelAdmin accepts a list_select_related option, for in the admin change list. I don't know if that applies in this situation though. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:10 PM, felix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > now this will hit the database for each item in the select, to go > fetch the

Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread felix
now this will hit the database for each item in the select, to go fetch the language object to get the language name. so for extra credit, where do we add a select_related() for the widget ? On Sep 12, 7:43 pm, TiNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably more like: > def __unicode__(self): >  

Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread TiNo
Probably more like: def __unicode__(self): return u'%s | %s' % (self.title, self.language.name) because self.language is the language object, not the name (or title) string. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:32 PM, phred78 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, I see! > You mean something like > > def

Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread phred78
Oh, I see! You mean something like def __unicode__(self): return self.title + ' | ' + self.language --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread Karen Tracey
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, phred78 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've been googling for hours and I can't figure this out. I'm working > on my first real project and came across a problem that some of you > might have already solved. > > I have a table called Products and

Customized ManyToMany in Admin

2008-09-12 Thread phred78
Hello all, I've been googling for hours and I can't figure this out. I'm working on my first real project and came across a problem that some of you might have already solved. I have a table called Products and one called Language. The client will insert several products per language. This is