Hi, What you are suggesting doesn't work. You can't communicate with the django backend via javascript if you don't use a lot of ajax requests. I would check django-smart-selects and see if you could use that?
Regards, Andréas 2015-11-02 15:57 GMT+01:00 dc <[email protected]>: > Any lead will be extremely helpful. I am still stuck. :( > > On Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 11:40:32 PM UTC-4, dc wrote: >> >> I have declared a charfield 'choice_text' in one of my models. I want to >> convert it to a dropdown box in django admin. The choices in the dropdown >> list depend on user input to a textbox defined in another model class. I >> have a javascript (declared as Media class inside a ModelAdmin class) that >> reads user input in the textbox. But I am unable to this choice list back >> from .js file to django admin. How do I do that? Thanks in advance. >> >> I have tried this. >> >> *models.py* >> class Routing(models.Model): >> choice_text = models.CharField(_('Choices'), max_length=100, >> default="(any)", null=False) >> >> *admin.py* >> class AdminRoutingInlineForm(forms.ModelForm): >> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): >> super(AdminRoutingInlineForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) >> CHOICES = [('a', 'any'),('b', 'blah'),] * // override this >> with choices from populate_dropdown.js (code below)* >> self.fields['choice_text'].choices = CHOICES >> >> class RoutingInlineAdmin(StackedInline): >> form = AdminRoutingInlineForm >> fields = (('choice_text', 'next'),) >> model = Routing >> >> >> class FormModelAdmin(ModelAdmin): >> inlines = [RoutingInlineAdmin] >> >> class Media: >> js= ("sforms/admin/populate_dropdown.js",) >> >> >> *populate_dropdown.js* >> (function($) { >> $(document).ready(function() { >> >> $("[id^=id_fields-][id$=_options_0]").each(function(){ * // >> user input from this field will be used as choices* >> choices = '(any),' + $(this).val().split("\n"); >> alert(choices); >> >> *// send this choices back to admin.py and override CHOICES >> in AdminRoutingInlineForm class* >> }); >> }); >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6ef56f22-dce0-4a85-b348-381b3a93e88f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6ef56f22-dce0-4a85-b348-381b3a93e88f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CALXYUbkkYGyXuFWSgO6Q6nQuh0xsUH6GYJFhvcdmTmZpegXC-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
