Thanks for the tips folks. I'm a little surprised that Django makes you work so hard to make such a totally standard form element (a date as three pulldown menus). Is there really no easier method?
Sean On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:31 AM, Jakub 'teodor' Krajniak wrote: > > > Sean Schertell wrote: > (...) >> In my view, I'm using FormWrapper and that automatically makes a text >> field for the date where the user is expected to enter the date as >> yyyy-mm-dd. Personally, I think that's not the most user friendly way >> to collect a date from the user. I like the more typical method of >> having three select menus: one for month, one for date, and one for >> year. >> >> The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single >> date object that plays nice with Django? > > I think that writing CustomForm with SelectFields would be good idea. > Next in views or in overwritten save() method, > you could join data from those fields into one date field and save it. > See in django source how is written ChangeManipulator. > > Regards, > Jakub > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
