Hi, this is a tough question, i've posted it to stackoverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39076392/django-m2m-through-model-with-classic-admin-widget
I include the text of the question here to make it easier to respond: I need to customise a through model of a many-to-many relationship, the customisation is subtle, because the user won't need do act manually, I try to explain myself better by explaining my use case with the following pseudo code: RouterConfiguration- vpn (many-to-many through VpnClient)# other fields VpnClient- router: ForeignKey to RouterConfiguration- vpn: ForeignKey to Vpn- cert: ForeignKey to Cert Vpn# other fields Cert# (stores x509 certificates)# other fields The through model VpnClient has only one additional field, a ForeignKey to Cert, but I want VpnClient to automatically create a Cert instance without user interaction and until here there is no problem. The problem comes in the Django Admin, because as far as I understood, it is not possible to use the classic many2many widget when using a through model: When you specify an intermediary model using the through argument to a ManyToManyField, the admin will not display a widget by default. This is because each instance of that intermediary model requires more information than could be displayed in a single widget, and the layout required for multiple widgets will vary depending on the intermediate model. Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/contrib/admin/#working-with-many-to-many-intermediary-models But I don't want the user to insert any extra information. I just want to be able to control the model so it can perform a series of actions automatically. So my question is: is it possible to have the classic admin widget with a custom through model? If there's no easy solution maybe I could try with a custom widget? Or maybe there is an alternative way to accomplish what I need? Thanks to anyone who can give me any useful suggestion. Federico -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4488bb17-dabd-4bef-9fa4-7707a4b76c9b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
