Re: Right way to use this ForeignKey

2006-12-03 Thread phess
Right, thanks a lot, Todd. I guess I'm not *that* stupid after all... :) Phew! :D I think I was actually using the wrong approach to building the magazines. I mean, they should have been separate apps from the start. Or else, every freaking article will be in a huge database table that also house

Re: Right way to use this ForeignKey

2006-12-03 Thread Todd O'Bryan
If an issue belongs to only one magazine and an article belongs to only one issue, then including both the magazine and the issue in the article model is redundant, so if you can avoid it, I would. On the other hand, I see your point that being able to quickly find the right issue when you have e

Re: Right way to use this ForeignKey

2006-12-03 Thread phess
> So an article can be in more than one issue of a magazine? Not at all. The Article belongs to only one Issue, which is what I want the ForeignKey to mean. I just want to limit the choices of Issues to the ones that make sense, i.e. to the Issues that belong to the chosen Magazine. > Just over

Re: Right way to use this ForeignKey

2006-12-03 Thread Todd O'Bryan
So an article can be in more than one issue of a magazine? My guess is that each article only appears in one issue. If that's the case, you should only have the issue as a foreign key. The problem there is that you may be annoyed that the issue is something like "June 2004". Just override the iss

Right way to use this ForeignKey

2006-12-03 Thread phess
I'm stuck at what I think should have been one of the easiest steps of building my magazines website: the models. :( I really feel stupid for that, so please tell me the right way to do this. This is what I have: Magazines, with many Issues each, and articles, which belong to only one Magazine, a