Sorry, I think my question was confusing. What I want to do is allow the user to either select a user from a drop down list of users from the ForeignKey in the Users model, or if there is not a user suitable to select in the drop down, they can manually type in a name themselves.
Thanks for your reply On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 7:45:51 PM UTC-7, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > On 28/02/2018 1:26 AM, Alexander Joseph wrote: > > Is there a way to make a form field or model field either a foreign > > key reference or allow the user to fill in something themselves? I'm > > making a fixed assets app and each fixed asset has an owner field, > > which I would like to assign to an app user if possible, and if not > > possible be able to fill in a name myself. > > Yes. Make the ForeignKey in the model null=True and blank=True so it can > exist all alone. Then you can limit_choices_to whatever whatever suits > your requirements ... > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.limit_choices_to > > > hth > Mike > > > > > > Thanks > > -- > > 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] <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:> > > <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>>. > > 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/98c44317-0993-4d41-9d25-33f8a9821dce%40googlegroups.com > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/98c44317-0993-4d41-9d25-33f8a9821dce%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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/dd78c8cf-1892-4740-b3cb-1e384b9bd788%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
