Thinko in my post - it's forms.ModelChoiceField, not
models.ModelChoiceField.
On May 20, 2:54 pm, "Adam Gomaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So your model is like:
>
> class Folder(models.Model):
> user = models.ForeignKey(User)
> # yadda yadda
>
> And you want to give the user a form to sort an object into one of
> their own folders. So what you do is make a form like this:
>
> class ObjectSortForm(forms.Form):
> folder = models.ModelChoiceField(Folder.objects.all())
>
> But, if your view, you don't actually want Folder.objects.all() - you
> want user.folder_set.all(). So, you have to set the
> form.fields['folder'].queryset attribute like this in your view:
>
> def my_view(request):
> if request.method=="POST":
> # yadda yadda form handling...
> else:
> form = ObjectSortForm()
> form.fields['folder'].queryset = request.user.folder_set.all()
>
> # etc etc...
> return render_to_response("my_template.html", dict(form=form))
>
> Unfortunately, the docs are somewhat incomplete - they only explain
> how to set the initial queryset. I've been meaning to write up some
> documentation explaining the .queryset attribute, so thanks for
> spurring some action :)
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:59 AM, chylld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have exactly the same problem; I just want to fill the ChoiceField
> > with a certain subset of choices based on the current user. Have you
> > found a way to do this??
>
> > Jonathan
>
> > On Apr 10, 7:21 am, ydjango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Yes, They are defined in model as
>
> >> owner = models.ForeignKey(Participant,null=True)
>
> >> all I want is to display only the Partcipants for a particular group
> >> in the choice field ( not all participants)
> >> and I am so frustrated now.
>
> >> eg. Participant.objects.filter(group__exact=my_group)]
>
> >> thanks
> >> Ashish
>
> >> On Apr 9, 2:15 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM, ydjango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > > Miles and Owner are defined as foreign_key to respective tables.
>
> >> > Yes, but did you actually look at the docs for the field types that
> >> > make it easy to represent foreign keys?
>
> >> > --
> >> > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of
> >> > correct.
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