The article linked to is from 2008 - have some things not changed in Django
since then?
On Friday, 14 October 2016 15:22:12 UTC+2, David wrote:
>
> Hi Giuseppe,
> I was upgrading to a later version of django and ran into the same issue.
> Did you find a work-around?
>
> On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 11:37:19 AM UTC-7, Giuseppe wrote:
>>
>> I managed to get this working, sort of. I learned that I need to include
>> jquery.init.js to my parent form. otherwise It wont open in a new window.
>> Now the only issue I am encountering is after I submit my child form, the
>> window goes white, but does not close. I think the code that gets called
>> when I submit the form is this
>> return HttpResponse('<script
>> type="text/javascript">opener.dismissAddRelatedObjectPopup(window, "%s",
>> "%s");</script>' % \
>> (escape(newObject._get_pk_val()), escape(newObject)))
>> I cant figure out if its being called at all or if its being called on
>> the child or if its being called on the parent and thats why its not
>> closing. "window" is being staticaly typed so its not in the view code
>> other than that one spot.
>>
>> Here is the Django code for the dismiss function (this was pulled
>> directly from
>> https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js
>> function dismissAddRelatedObjectPopup(win, newId, newRepr) {
>> var name = windowname_to_id(win.name);
>> var elem = document.getElementById(name);
>> if (elem) {
>> var elemName = elem.nodeName.toUpperCase();
>> if (elemName === 'SELECT') {
>> elem.options[elem.options.length] = new Option(newRepr,
>> newId, true, true);
>> } else if (elemName === 'INPUT') {
>> if (elem.className.indexOf('vManyToManyRawIdAdminField')
>> !== -1 && elem.value) {
>> elem.value += ',' + newId;
>> } else {
>> elem.value = newId;
>> }
>> }
>> // Trigger a change event to update related links if required.
>> $(elem).trigger('change');
>> } else {
>> var toId = name + "_to";
>> var o = new Option(newRepr, newId);
>> SelectBox.add_to_cache(toId, o);
>> SelectBox.redisplay(toId);
>> }
>> win.close();
>> }
>>
>> I can see that after I submit my new object gets selected in the dropdown
>> inside the parent form, but the popup window from the child form does not
>> close. Any ideas how to get the child form to close, the dismiss function
>> should be doing that correct?
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 5:06:22 PM UTC-4, Giuseppe wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to get a pop up that will let me create a new object to
>>> associate to a many to many relationship on a form/model. In the same way
>>> that it works in django-admin.
>>>
>>> I have been followed the instructions from here
>>> <http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/replicating-djangos-admin/>, and its
>>> not working for me.
>>>
>>> whenever I click the plus button it opens the related object creating
>>> form in the same tab instead of a new pop up. When I try to submit the new
>>> object I get a cert error and I included the cert tag in the template.
>>>
>>> Let me know what code you want to see and I can post it. Also if you
>>> know of a different resource, or library or way of doing this that would be
>>> amazing.
>>>
>>> By the way I think the link provided was for django 1.1 and im using
>>> django 1.9.1
>>>
>>
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