Michael, thanks very much. Mengu's suggestion worked exactly as I
wanted.
The addition of the line __dropdown_field_names__ = {'event':'title'}
did the trick for me :)
On Jun 29, 3:30 am, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote:
> hagus: I know I promised a response, but mengu beat me to it. Unless there's
> something else you'd like to see in particular?
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Mengu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > hey hagus,
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> > check this out:
> >http://sprox.org/tutorials/form.html#creating-custom-dropdown-data
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> > this will help you.
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> > On Jun 29, 12:44 am, hagus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I have constructed an app based on the same architecture as the
> > > movies
> > > tutorial. Instead of Movie and Genre, I have Child and Event.
> > > Using Admin, I constructed a few events, including "Puppets" and
> > > "Science".
> > > However, in the form that appears on the Welcome page, the Events
> > > dropdown
> > > is populated with integers (1, 2) rather than (Puppets, Science).
> > > Clearly, it would make more sense for the person filling in the form
> > > to
> > > see a textual choice rather than a numeric one.
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> > > As I intend to add to the choices, making them more complex, the
> > > need
> > > becomes more obvious.
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> > > Instead of event_id, I want to show Child.event.title in my form -
> > > any
> > > suggestions as to how I can achieve this, please?
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Calum aka hagus or pangur
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