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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.