I'm not sure I understood correctly what you wanted to achieve, but if you want to order the Persons in the dropdown for the players field by name, you need to change the order of the queryset associated with that field.
For a ForeignKey field, a ModelForm generates a ModelChoiceField http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield that has a queryset attribute holding the QuerySet used to populate the dropdow. You can change the order in the __init__ method of your form: class RotationForm(forms.ModelForm): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(RotationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.fields["player"].queryset = self.fields["player"].queryset.order_by("name") Or by overriding the field on the form: class RotationForm(forms.ModelForm): player = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Person.objects.all().order_by("name")) Hope this gives you some pointers in the right direction. Nuno On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:09 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 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. > > -- 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.
