Hi, this is a tough question, i've posted it to stackoverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39076392/django-m2m-through-model-with-classic-admin-widget
I include the text of the question here to make it easier to respond: I need to customise a through model of a many-to-many relationship, the customisation is subtle, because the user won't need do act manually, I try to explain myself better by explaining my use case with the following pseudo code: RouterConfiguration- vpn (many-to-many through VpnClient)# other fields VpnClient- router: ForeignKey to RouterConfiguration- vpn: ForeignKey to Vpn- cert: ForeignKey to Cert Vpn# other fields Cert# (stores x509 certificates)# other fields The through model VpnClient has only one additional field, a ForeignKey to Cert, but I want VpnClient to automatically create a Cert instance without user interaction and until here there is no problem. The problem comes in the Django Admin, because as far as I understood, it is not possible to use the classic many2many widget when using a through model: When you specify an intermediary model using the through argument to a ManyToManyField, the admin will not display a widget by default. This is because each instance of that intermediary model requires more information than could be displayed in a single widget, and the layout required for multiple widgets will vary depending on the intermediate model. Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/contrib/admin/#working-with-many-to-many-intermediary-models But I don't want the user to insert any extra information. I just want to be able to control the model so it can perform a series of actions automatically. So my question is: is it possible to have the classic admin widget with a custom through model? If there's no easy solution maybe I could try with a custom widget? Or maybe there is an alternative way to accomplish what I need? Thanks to anyone who can give me any useful suggestion. Federico -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4488bb17-dabd-4bef-9fa4-7707a4b76c9b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
