Thanks so much, Russ! I'd been thinking about trying to tinker around under the admin hood, but now I can just apply myself to learning newforms backwards & forwards--
On Jun 14, 11:56 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry if this has been addressed-- having trouble figuring out how to > > search for this issue. > > > Basically, I'd like to be able to edit many-to-many relationships from > > both admin screen, so if "articles" has a mtm relationship > > w/"categories", I can see both which categories are attached to > > articles from the article admin screen, AND which articles are > > attached to the category from the categories admin screen. > > > Saw some talk of putting ManyToManyFields in both classes, & then > > forcing the db_table name to be the same, but sounded kinda > > unorthodoxy & early reports were that it didn't work anyway. Any > > ideas? > > You don't need to fix it at the model level - the model will contain > all the information that is required. What you need to fix is at the > form level. > > In the forward direction, a newforms ModelForm will include a widget > for the m2m relationship. > > The reverse direction is a little more difficult. At present, there > isn't a way to get a ModelForm to automatically include a widget for > the 'reverse' m2m relationship. However, if you have used ModelForm to > build the form for your model, you can manually add a > newforms.models.ModelMultipleChoiceField that represents the reverse > relation. > > If you need to do this using oldforms, or on trunk admin - you're on > your own. Customization of the trunk admin interface is somewhat > difficult, which is one of the many very good reasons that we're in > the process of replacing trunk admin with a version based on newforms. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
