#13: Related objects interface should be tighter (edit_inline)
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Reporter: adrian | Owner: barbuza
Status: reopened | Milestone:
Component: django.contrib.admin | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords: nfa-someday
nfa-changelist
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 1 |
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Changes (by dokterbob):
* cc: mathijs@… (added)
* has_patch: 0 => 1
Comment:
So far, it seems that no work has been done on this issue for a long time.
Meanwhile, I am sure that it is still a feature that many users would like
to see integrated into the Django admin. Given that, by now, people have
made the wise decision to ship jQuery with the Django admin, it seems to
me as about time to start fixing this issue.
Currently, if `order_with_respect_to` is specifeid in a Model's Meta field
is specified, a cute `_order` field is indeed added to the Model's
database table. However (AFAIK because of the underscore), this field is
not represented at all in the Admin interface. This implies that - for now
- it is still easier to explicitly add some Integer ordering field to a
Model rather than using the much more elegant, available, but
disfunctional, API that ships with Django.
As fixing/completing this feature should be fairly easy for someone who's
used to getting into the debts of the (very scarcely documented)
Admin/Model internals, it might not even be too unrealistic to have this
fixed before 1.3 or the first point release after.
To make it a bit easier, I have made a start by providing this patch which
fixes at least the `get_ordered_objects` method of Model's `_meta`. This
causes the Admin to load a non-existant file `dom-drag.js` which should be
replaced by a jQuery equivalent thereof. Furthermore, the
InlineModelAdmin's formset should have it's `can_order` parameter set to
`True`, I believe, to allow for the ordering to get through to the Admin
in the first place.
Meanwhile, I have spotted the following tickets relating to this same
issue - parts of which I used for writing the - still very incomplete -
patch:
* #13296
* #9338
* #2137
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