Doesn't work for me:
SelectFilter is not defined. django neither.
Isn't there any other js file we should include?
Thanks heaps anyway!
On Friday, August 10, 2007 12:38:00 AM UTC+2, Jason McVetta wrote:
>
> A number of people, myself included, have asked this list how the admin
> interface's slick javascript many-to-many widget can be used in templates
> outside admin. None of the answers given solved the issue for me, but they
> did point me in the right direction. After a day of reading the source, I
> was able to get the widget to work with my templates.
>
> Here's how I got it working:
>
> 1. Get the right javascripts imported. Two script files, "core.js"
> and "SelectFilter2.js", are needed. Additionally, you must include the
> jsi18n view generated by admin interface; by default its url is
> "/admin/jsi18n".
>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="/admin/jsi18n/"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="/media/js/core.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="/media/js/SelectFilter2.js"></script>
>
> 2. Decorate your form field with the "vSelectMultipleField" class
> attribute. For example, if you had created a form called "form" from your
> model, and the M2M field was called "foo", you would put this in your
> view:
>
> form.fields['foo'].widget.attrs['class'] = 'vSelectMultipleField'
>
> 3. Include javascript in your template to initialize the widget. For
> our "foo" example, you would insert this line somewhere after {{
> form.foo }}:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">addEvent(window, "load", function(e) {
> SelectFilter.init("id_tags", "tags", 0, "/media/"); });</script>
>
> In the admin interface, inserting this code is handled by a template
> tag called "filter_interface_script_maybe". That tag has admin-specific
> logic, but one could easily write a similar tag for one's own templates.
>
>
> I hope that is helpful.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/13/07, Jason McVetta <jason....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Forgive this question if the answer is overly obvious; but I have not yet
>> figured it out. I want to use the horizontal M2M widget from the admin
>> interface in my own template. The model looks like something this:
>>
>> class Foo(models.Model):
>> bars = models.ManyToManyField(Bar, filter_interface=models.HORIZONTAL
>> )
>>
>> My views.py looks something like this:
>>
>> def myView(request, object_id):
>> foo = Foo.objects.filter(id=object_id)[0]
>> FooForm = form_for_instance(foo)
>> form = FooForm()
>> rc = template.RequestContext(request)
>> return render_to_response('path/to/mytemplate.html', {'form': form},
>> rc)
>>
>> And my template includes a line like:
>>
>> <p><label for="id_bars">Bars:</label> {{ form.bars }}</p>
>>
>> While the model alone is sufficient to produce a horizontal filter in
>> the admin interface, in my template all it displays is a basic HTML select
>> multiple list.
>>
>> I suspect the answer lies in decorating the widget rendered by {{
>> form.bars }} with a class or id so the Javascript knows to beautify it, but
>> I am not sure how to do so.
>>
>
>
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