Jay,
Yep, that worked. Thanks for the help!
On May 6, 12:16 pm, "Jay Parlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/6/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Jay,
> > I've already added my SlugField. Here is a look at the table I
> > created
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> > class news(models.Model):
> > title = models.CharField(maxlength=200)
> > theslug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=("title"))
> > body = models.TextField(maxlength=2000)
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> > def __str__(self,):
> > return self.title
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> > class Admin:
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> > However, when i login to my admin and type something into my title
> > field nothing appears in the SlugField. I'm assuming that I need to
> > import some JavaScript file so that my SlugField gets auto-populated
> > when I enter text into the text field.
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> Nope, no need to import anything manually. You've been bitten by a
> "quirk" of Python. Notice that you have this:
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> prepopulate_from=("title")
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> That's *almost* right. In the documentation, they show a two element
> tuple, ("pre_name", "name"). You only have a one element tuple.
> However, you did it wrong. A one element tuple in Python *has* to have
> a trailing comma, so it should be
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> prepopulate_from=("title",)
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> Alternatively, you can use a list instead of a tuple, then you don't
> need the comma
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> prepopulate_from=["title"]
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> The trailing comma in a tuple is required so Python knows whether or
> not you are creating a tuple, or just simply putting brackets around
> an expression.
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> Hope that helps,
> Jay P.- Hide quoted text -
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