Thanks for your answer all! I really appreciate it! In the meantime, I have thought of the following ugly but simple solution. A comma (or whatever character) seperated list of primary keys in a CharField can hold the values in the order needed. Now the only thing I need is a widget that generates this list. Somewhat similar to: http://www.nuff-respec.com/external/javascriptgui.html (Except that he above demo does not select, it just orders) I would then need to write my own accessor functions for the related model objects.
Any comment on that? Oliver On Jun 27, 11:42 am, Jonas Pfeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think Django is really wonderful, but I am puzzled that it contains > > so few "ordering features". We often have the case that a user wants > > to select from a list of possible choices (normal select) *plus* wants > > to specify an ordering. Typically in applications this is done using > > up/down arrows next to the box displaying the selected values. > > This is indeed a very common use case and has been requested many > times (e.g. here [1]). The good news is that Django has scheduled the > 1.0 release early September. This means it’s very probably not going > to be addressed right now. But once 1.0 is out the door the ancient > ticket #13 [2] will be (hopefully) revisited :) It has a mock-up of > the admin interface proposed [3] but no patch yet. > > On the JS-lib/flamewar issue. If I recall correctly the admin is not > considered to belong to the core of Django (even though it’s _the_ > killer feature for many). It's merely an application. As such it has > to use the techniques necessary. Unless someone volunteers to rewrite > a JS for Django from scratch this includes using a lib. I don't think > that's that much of an issue though. Let's just come up witch a > sensible list and have people with commit privileges vote on it :) > > But post 1.0 ;) > > Cheers, > > Jonas > > [1]http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6118 > [2]http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13 > [3]http://media.wilsonminer.com/images/django/related-objects-mock.gif --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
