On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Michael Repucci <mich...@repucci.org>wrote:
> > It seems that the formfield_for_dbfield method doesn't have a hook for > the request. So unless I'm mistaken, I can't use it to filter the > Contact instances by the currently logged in user (request.user). Any > other thoughts? > > On Feb 12, 3:12 pm, Michael Repucci <mich...@repucci.org> wrote: > > Oh. It doesn't mention that in the documentation. I am using 1.0.2- > > final. I'll check out formfield_for_dbfield. Thanks for the pointer! > > > > On Feb 12, 3:09 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, MichaelRepucci<mich...@repucci.org > >wrote: > > > > > > I'm new to Django, and already loving it. But I'm stumbling a bit > with > > > > how to accomplish the following task. Perhaps this isn't the best > > > > approach, but most of the site is working as planned, and it was > super > > > > easy to get up and running. > > > > > > I have a Contact model and a Person model, the latter of which has a > > > > ForeignKey field (contact) to a Contact instance. Both Contact and > > > > Person models have an owner field (also ForeignKey), so that I can > > > > associate a particular User (django.contrib.auth.models) through the > > > > admin site with their own Contact and Person instances. That way, I > > > > can filter the admin site, so that each User (aside from superusers) > > > > sees only their own Contact and Person instances. > > > > > > This all works marvelously, except in one place: on the default > > > > <select> box for the contact field on the Person add/change form on > > > > the admin site. I can't seem to find out how to filter the Contact > > > > instances by User when displaying this select box. I thought the > > > > solution would be through the formfield_for_foreignkey method, but I > > > > implemented it as described in the admin site documentation, and it > > > > doesn't work. I would try to debug it a bit, but don't really know > how > > > > to get it to output any values for me. > > > > > > So please help me learn how to debug formfield_for_foreignkey, if > that > > > > is the right solution, or offer a different approach. Please do try > to > > > > take me slowly through any suggestion(s) you may have, and point me > > > > toward documentation, if available, as I am totally new to this. > Thank > > > > you! > > > > > What version of Django are you running? The formfield_for_foreignkey > hook > > > only exissts in trunk, not in 1.0.2, so if you're on 1.0.2 you'll need > to > > > overide the formfield_for_dbfield method, which is a little more > general. > > > > > Alex > > > > > -- > > > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your > right to > > > say it." --Voltaire > > > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero > > > Err yeah, that's correct, sorry I wasn't thinking about it, getting request in there occured at the same time as changing the callbacks, there's not really a good way to do that on 1.0.2. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
