nvm, I think i'm starting to figure it out. Need to read up on many-to- many fields.
On Aug 23, 2:21 am, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be difficult to explain. I'm a little new to django and the > whole idea of models. > > Let's say I'm making an article app, where each article has a creator, > but other users can edit the article at will. I'm having a little > difficult on how to create the models for this. > > Firstly, I extend the user profile with the following: > > class UserProfile(models.Model): > #Required field: > user = models.OneToOneField(User) > > #Other Fields: > headline = models.CharField() > industry = models.CharField() > article= models.ForeignKey(articleModel.article) > > Here is the first place I'm getting confused, do I put the foreignkey > field in the user model? My reasoning for it being placed here is > because each article can have many editors. > > Now here is my article model: > > class article(models.Model): > #primary key is already true > creator = models.ForeignKey(userModel.UserProfile) > title = models.CharField() > text = models.TextField() > > Over here, I put the ForeignKey field so it would relate back to the > creator, because every article has a single creator. (As a side note, > I do want to make it so an article can have multiple creators, but I > don't know what to do in this scenario). I'm finding it a bit odd that > the UserProfile model is referencing the article model, and the > article is referencing it back. Can someone please help me unjumble my > brain? > > Thank you. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
