On Apr 20, 4:09 pm, darren <backdoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not able to figure out how to order the records that fill the
> drop down list in a model form. On line 112 below, I have attempted
> to order the Rotation model by player. But, the drop down list that
> is created for me is not ordered that way. I also tried relocating
> line 112 to within the Meta class definition. But, that didn't work
> either. I see field ordering in the docs. But, I don't see this
> mentioned.
>
> Any suggestions would be more than appreciated.
>
> 101 class Rotation(models.Model):
> 102 player = models.ForeignKey(Person, to_field='f_name',
> verbose_name='Player', limit_choices_to={'relationship' : 'Player'})
> 103 date = models.DateField('Date', default=datetime.date.today)
> 104 game_type = models.CharField("Game Type",
> choices=(('Scrimmage', 'Scrimmage'), ('Tournament', 'Tournament')),
> max_length=10)
> 105 inning_count = models.IntegerField("Innings Out", default=1)
> 106 def __unicode__(self):
> 107 return '%s || %s %s || %s || %s' % (self.date,
> self.player.f_name, self.player.l_name, self.game_type,
> str(self.inning_count))
> 108 class Meta:
> 109 ordering = ['date']
> 110
> 111 class RotationForm(forms.ModelForm):
> 112 Rotation.objects.order_by('player')
> 113 class Meta:
> 114 model = Rotation
> 115 exclude = ['date', 'inning_count']
You can add an 'ordering' property to your Rotation model's Meta
class:
class Meta:
ordering = ['player']
The order will then be the same as the order specified in the Player
model.
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