limit number of related instance for m2m field in django-admin

2012-06-07 Thread vijay shanker
hi is there any way to limit the number of instances that can be attached to a m2m field. e.g author = models.manytomany(Book) i want to limit the max number of book objects that can be attached to author. How to go about this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

Re: limit number of related instance for m2m field in django-admin

2012-06-07 Thread Kurtis Mullins
You could customize the Admin Book Creation Form's save() method to check for X number of books an author already has. Note: I have very limited experience customizing the Admin application and have only used this method through a normal Form. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:56 AM, vijay shanker wrote:

Re: limit number of related instance for m2m field in django-admin

2012-06-08 Thread vijay shanker
override def clean() of form and raise forms.ValidationError( 'Your Error Message here' ) On Jun 7, 6:45 pm, Kurtis Mullins wrote: > You could customize the Admin Book Creation Form's save() method to check > for X number of books an author already has. > > Note: I have very limited experience cu