That's cool. Did you put this on the wiki? http://code.djangoproject.com/
Bryan On 1/31/06, tonemcd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's what I've found... > > Start with the very useful tutorial at > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/forms/ - in general it's > very helpful, but there are some small gaps in the documentation, which > would certainly have helped me > > #1: I'd emphasize that this document > (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/forms/), will help > djangonauts get a lot of the adminy goodness into their own apps. Big > win to the django team. > > #2: The date and time javascript widgets are what I wanted most of all. > It would be handy if the example model included a DateTime field. > Here's what I have; > > startdate = meta.DateTimeField(db_column='start_date') # there > were too many underscores, I wanted to keep it simple!! > > This is represented in the form template like this; > > <div class="form-row"> > <label for="id_startdate_date">Start Date:</label> > <p class="datetime"> > {{ form.startdate_date }} {{ form.startdate_time }} > <br/> > </p> > {% if form.startdate.errors %}*** {{ > form.startdate.errors|join:", " }}{% endif %} <br/> > </div> > > The big thing here is that the field 'startdate' is expanded out in the > form, _date and _time are made available (this may have been where I > went wrong, my initial attempt had {{ form.start_date }}, but I never > saw any content in the form). > > #3: There seems to be an error in the code for loading up an edit_form. > The example document has this; > > if request.POST: > new_data = request.POST.copy() > errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data) > if not errors: > manipulator.do_html2python(new_data) > manipulator.save(new_data) > > # Do a post-after-redirect so that reload works, etc. > return HttpResponseRedirect("/places/edit/%i/" % place.id) > else: > errors = {} > # This makes sure the form accurate represents the fields of > the place. > new_data = place.__dict__ > > > *no way* could I get this to work, I had to do this instead > > if request.POST: > new_data = request.POST.copy() > errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data) > if not errors: > manipulator.do_html2python(new_data) > manipulator.save(new_data) > > # Do a post-after-redirect so that reload works, etc. > return HttpResponseRedirect("/resources/edit/%i/" % > resource.id) > else: > errors = {} > # This makes sure the form accurate represents the fields of > the place. > #new_data = resource.__dict__ > new_data = manipulator.flatten_data() > > Note that > new_data = resource.__dict__ > is replaced with > new_data = manipulator.flatten_data() > > Ok, nearly there, but could I get the clock and calendar widgets? Nope > - I used Xylescope to check on the CSS, I used alerts in the Javascript > etc. etc. and then I found it was stopping on gettext... Some > additional digging provided this jewel; i18n.txt in the docs. > > Add this; > (r'^jsi18n/$', 'django.views.i18n.javascript_catalog', {'packages': > 'django.conf'}), > > to your urls.py for your application, make sure that your header HTML > looks *something* like this; > > <script type="text/javascript" src="../../../jsi18n/"></script> > <script type="text/javascript" src="/media/js/core.js"></script><script > type="text/javascript" > src="/media/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js"></script><script > type="text/javascript" src="/media/js/calendar.js"></script><script > type="text/javascript" > src="/media/js/admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js"></script> > > And Bob's your Uncle, Fannys your Aunt (ie the javascript widgets > work). > > Hope this helps ;) > > Cheers, > Tone > >
