You could do this pretty easily using your own forms ( not NewForms
and not Add/Change Manipulators ) along with the Django DB objects.
It's pretty easy to do a CustomChangeManipulator with fields from two
tables if it's just a one to one relationship, but for M2M, I usually
either roll my own or I display a list of the rentals with an 'edit'
link next to each item in the list.
On May 20, 2:19 pm, David Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe I have performed exhaustive research on the challenge of
> creating forms that incorporate fields from multiple tables. I have
> not found *any* comprehensive, best-practices examples of this problem.
>
> It really quite surprises me, as any web application of even moderate
> complexity requires multiple tables.
>
> Anyway, I think everyone (and especially all us n00bs) would *really*
> appreciate a good bit of demonstration code for the following sort of
> scenario:
>
> class Customer(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField()
> phone = models.PhoneNumber()
>
> class Rentals(models.Model):
> title = models.CharField()
> serial = models.Integer()
> rented_to = models.ForeignKey(Customer)
> rental_due = models.DateField()
>
> The Form should display the customer's name, phone number, and the
> movies the customer has rented, but *not* the date they're due
> ('cause I'd like this problem to represent real-world problems, where
> one doesn't necessarily display all the fields for editing).
>
> I've been battling at this for days, reading a lot of newsposts and
> websites, and I've come up with bupkiss. It is extraordinarily
> frustrating.
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