On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 6:07 am, Alvaro Mouriño <alvaro.stev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi list. >> >> I'm developing a news application that handles articles, about 10 new >> articles each day. The site administrator every morning selects from a >> drop-down-list the ones that hit the front page. As time goes by this >> list grows bigger and bigger, and what's worst, old articles doesn't >> even matter at all. >> >> I could sort by creation date and limit the queryset with the >> ModelAdmin.formfield_for_foreignkey method. I do both, but it's not >> perfect. >> >> Nowadays I limit the list of articles to only the ones published today >> and yesterday. The problem with this is that when editing an instance, >> if old enough (more than two days) no articles will show up, not even >> the selected one, which as you could imagine makes editing old >> instances impossible. >> >> I'd like to know if there's a way to access an attribute of the >> instance in the formfield_for_foreignkey method so I can tell django >> to display a list of articles based on the creation date (only the >> articles created that day and the day before.) >> >> (I could use a raw_id_field but it would be a usability problem to not >> see the article's title in the same page.) >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> AlvAro > > This is probably outside the scope of what can be achieved via > formfield_for_foreignkey. However it would be possible by defining a > custom form and overriding the __init__ method. After calling super(), > you can then modify the queryset of the FK field - you would have > access to the current instance via self.instance.
I'll take a look at that. Thanks! -- AlvAro --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
