Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
> On 9/3/06, Jakub 'teodor' Krajniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sean Schertell wrote: >> (...) >>> The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single >>> date object that plays nice with Django? >> >> I think that writing CustomForm with SelectFields would be good idea. >> Next in views or in overwritten save() method, >> you could join data from those fields into one date field and save >> it. >> See in django source how is written ChangeManipulator. > > I would also use a custom form. > > Also, if there are more than two or three date fields, it may be > worthwhile coding up your own subclass of django.forms.FormField or > django.forms.HiddenField, which renders the three drop-down lists and > does the validation. > > Alan. Thanks Alan and Jakub. It seems like I've found the first chink in the armor. In my opinion, the worst sin a framework can commit is getting in the way of accomplishing basic, simple tasks making you work *harder* to accomplish something that's normally easy. This looks like one of those cases :-( Oh well, off to research CustomForm with SelectFields -- hopefully it's easier than it sounds. Thanks for the tips, Sean --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
On 9/3/06, Jakub 'teodor' Krajniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean Schertell wrote: > (...) > > The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single > > date object that plays nice with Django? > > I think that writing CustomForm with SelectFields would be good idea. > Next in views or in overwritten save() method, > you could join data from those fields into one date field and save it. > See in django source how is written ChangeManipulator. I would also use a custom form. Also, if there are more than two or three date fields, it may be worthwhile coding up your own subclass of django.forms.FormField or django.forms.HiddenField, which renders the three drop-down lists and does the validation. Alan. > > Regards, >Jakub > > > > > -- Alan Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://bright-green.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
Thanks for the tips folks. I'm a little surprised that Django makes you work so hard to make such a totally standard form element (a date as three pulldown menus). Is there really no easier method? Sean On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:31 AM, Jakub 'teodor' Krajniak wrote: > > > Sean Schertell wrote: > (...) >> In my view, I'm using FormWrapper and that automatically makes a text >> field for the date where the user is expected to enter the date as >> -mm-dd. Personally, I think that's not the most user friendly way >> to collect a date from the user. I like the more typical method of >> having three select menus: one for month, one for date, and one for >> year. >> >> The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single >> date object that plays nice with Django? > > I think that writing CustomForm with SelectFields would be good idea. > Next in views or in overwritten save() method, > you could join data from those fields into one date field and save it. > See in django source how is written ChangeManipulator. > > Regards, >Jakub > > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
Sean Schertell wrote: (...) > In my view, I'm using FormWrapper and that automatically makes a text > field for the date where the user is expected to enter the date as > -mm-dd. Personally, I think that's not the most user friendly way > to collect a date from the user. I like the more typical method of > having three select menus: one for month, one for date, and one for > year. > > The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single > date object that plays nice with Django? I think that writing CustomForm with SelectFields would be good idea. Next in views or in overwritten save() method, you could join data from those fields into one date field and save it. See in django source how is written ChangeManipulator. Regards, Jakub --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
> The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single > date object that plays nice with Django? > I think the easyest way will be to format selected day, month, year with Javascript, but definetly not the best. May be write a custom Validator. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
Sorry, perhaps someone can clarify this for me -- or maybe I didn't
ask my question very clearly.
I have a model called Event. In that model, I have a line that looks
like this:
date = models.DateField()
In my view, I'm using FormWrapper and that automatically makes a text
field for the date where the user is expected to enter the date as
-mm-dd. Personally, I think that's not the most user friendly way
to collect a date from the user. I like the more typical method of
having three select menus: one for month, one for date, and one for
year.
The question is, how can I get those three menus to create a single
date object that plays nice with Django?
Thanks,
Sean
On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:55 PM, coulix wrote:
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> Building a menu i dont know,
> bu getting the data yes
>
> exemple the month list of a Entry model with a create date field.
>
> month_list = Entry.objects.dates('created', 'month')
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> >
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Re: How to use month/date/year menus for date?
Building a menu i dont know,
bu getting the data yes
exemple the month list of a Entry model with a create date field.
month_list = Entry.objects.dates('created', 'month')
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How to use month/date/year menus for date?
Hi, My model has a date field in it and I want to collect that data in my form with a more traditional method than the default text field that the FormWrapper generates. I want to use three select menus with month/date/year pulldowns. What the best way to do this while keeping my model happy? Thanks in advance, Sean --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
