Hey there, Try this:
In your forms.py create a field such as this message = forms.ChoiceField(label='Event Type', choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) That will create a dropdown. Also, I think that the first thing in the tuple is a value and shouldn't have a space, so change: EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (('Event Created', 'EventCreated'),('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'),) to: EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (('event_created', 'Event Created'),('event_changed', 'Event Changed'),) See if that works for you. Cheers, -m message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12, > > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) On 21 February 2012 12:28, larry.mart...@gmail.com <larry.mart...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Feb 20, 5:54 pm, Anurag Chourasia <anurag.choura...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is weird.... > > > > I simply copy pasted your code in my environment and it shows me a Drop > > Down. > > > > Could you save the models file again and close your browser (or even try > > clearing cache) and restart your apache/django dev server whatever may be > > the case and try again? > > Tried all that, still no joy. Also tried 2 different browsers, no > difference. In the dev server also tried setting a breakpoint and then > printing out message.choices, and it has the choices I expected: > > (Pdb) print message.choices > (('Event Created', 'EventCreated'), ('Event Changed', 'EventChanged')) > > > > > > > Regards, > > Anurag > > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:32 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com < > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm fairly new to django, still getting my feet wet. I want to have a > > > dropdown menu (django seems to call this a select box). I read this: > > > > >https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.mo. > .. > > > > > So I did this: > > > > > class EventsTable(models.Model): > > > EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = ( > > > ('Event Created', 'EventCreated'), > > > ('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'), > > > ) > > > > > message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12, > > > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) > > > > > But I get a standard text entry field where I can type in anything. > > > > > I did more googling, and I read a lot of confusing stuff about having > > > to use javascrpt, ajax, CSS, etc. I read some pages about using a > > > ChoiceField, but that is not part of the model class (it's in the > > > forms class). I'm not sure how that would be used with a class that > > > inherits form models. > > > > > What am I missing here? I can't imagine something as common as this > > > would be hard in django. Shouldn't the first thing I did work? > > > > > TIA! > > > -larry > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.