Hi Everyone,
I followed the article "Django Form Validation Framework on Google App
Engine"[1] and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was. So the
next step was to try it with a Model which contained a
ReferenceProperty to another model.
e.g. Each Section has a Layout. SectionForm is a form for the Section model.
class Layout(db.Model):
name = db.StringProperty()
desc = db.TestProperty()
class Section(db.Model):
name = db.StringProperty()
layout = db.ReferenceProperty(Layout)
class SectionForm(djangoforms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Section
Using the SectionForm for creating, saving and editing the Section
model is great, however, the <select> box rendered isn't quite humanly
readable. It works but I and especially the user doesn't know which
Layout (three of them) each selection is referring to.
<select name="layout" id="id_layout">
<option value="" selected="selected">---------</option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAUM"><models.Layout
object at 0x8d65a6c></option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAYM"><models.Layout
object at 0x8d658ac></option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAcM"><models.Layout
object at 0x8d8a9ec></option>
</select>
The value="" attribute is fine but I'd love it if I could actually
show the Layout.name of each layout as the human readable bit (the
content inside each <option> tag). e.g.
<select name="layout" id="id_layout">
<option value="" selected="selected">---------</option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAUM">Layout 1</option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAYM">Test
Layout</option>
<option value="agpjaGlsdHMtb3JnchMLEg1TZWN0aW9uTGF5b3V0GAcM">Default</option>
</select>
Does anyone have any ideas on:
1) how to do it automatically but still using DjangoForms?
2) how to override the rendering of the form so I can do it manually?
Many thanks.
Cheers,
Andy
[1] http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/djangoforms.html
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