No, not a direct cut and paste (I guess I should have) class person(models.Model): gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=(('M','male'), ('F','female'))) other = models.CharField(manx_length=20, null=True,blank=True)
def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False): if 'M' == self.gender: self.other = 'Manly Man' else: self.other = 'Womanly Woman' super(person, self).save(force_insert, force_update The save works fine from the ./manage.py shell. It's only when I use the admin page to add or create a person that it doesnt work. Am I supposed to set up a form and use a form_save() as well or is the above look correct? Thanks On Feb 4, 8:55 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Silfheed <silfh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Heyas > > > So I'm sure this is pretty basic, but I don't seem to be able to get > > the following to work and I cant seem to find suitable info on google > > or the django site. > > > I've got my model: > > > class person(models.Model): > > gender = models.CharField(max_length=1, choices=(('M','male'), > > ('F','female)) > > other = models.CharField(manx_length=20, null=True,blank=True) > > > def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False): > > if 'M' == self.gender: > > self.other = 'Manly Man' > > else: > > self.other = 'Womanly Woman' > > > super(person, self).save(force_insert, force_update) > > > The issue is whenever I update or create a 'person' in the django > > admin site, it doesnt seem to call my save(). Am I missing > > something? I've not looked into signals but I thought that overriding > > save() still worked, just that signals were for removing non-save like > > operations from the save() fn (ie send email on save). > > > Anyway, it's late and I'm probably missing something basic, but I've > > been searching the net for a while now and just cant seem to get it to > > work. > > If that's a cut and paste, your def save is not indented under class person, > so its just a function, not a save() method for the person class. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---