On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:24 PM, hotani <hot...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have close to 600 users split by 20 or so offices. We have a > helpdesk form (using ModelForm) which displays an initial user list > based on the office, or no users if an office is not selected. > > An AJAX function on the front end dynamically changes users in the > drop-down based on the office selection. An admin can change the > office which will display a new set of users to choose from. > > Everything is fine till it comes to django validating the form. Since > the user selection coming in for processing may not have been one of > the initial choices, I keep getting the dreaded "That choice is not > one of the available choices" error. > > I can hack this up by first sending all users to the field, then > erasing and resetting the display on the front end but would like a > more "standard" solution. > > Using clean_user(self) does not work - I can throw errors from there > but don't seem to have a way to tell django "this value is OK, > dammit!" >
how about using int field for user with custom widget and own custom clean() method which checks if selected user is in range based of other (office department) field? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
