I'm just getting familiar with Django and I think I've got all the basics... and I have lots of experience with Python and MySQL, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do something that would be easy for me in plain Python. One of the problems I keep finding with various pieces of documentation is that they show code snippets without showing *where* they go... sometimes that's obvious, but sometimes not so much. Anyway, a little guidance on this simple thing would help me immensely.
I need to create a form that updates values for a bunch of database rows. The wrinkle is that the model from which I'm getting the form data isn't the same as the model I'm going to update. The form should look like a list of values followed by several checkboxes. The user will look down the list and check off the appropriate boxes. When submitted, the form should update corresponding Boolean fields in the target table. The reason there are two underlying tables and models is that the source is a rollup of the target; they are essentially identical, but querying the raw data is slow, so the system does a rollup periodically, from which the form needs to grab an ordered list. So... I need to populate the form with the name and ids of a number of rows from the source table (pardon me for mixing database and object terminology here...) and I can't figure how to do that. Obviously there's a for loop involved, but, well, I just can't quite grok how to put this together. Processing the form means updating the target with the new Boolean values selected by the user in the form, of course. If anybody has an example that does something like this, that'll be great. Thanks in advance, Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
