Yes, you understood my problem. Thanks. That helped. I tried both suggestions. Your second suggestion looked a little easier. So, I tried it first. I couldn't get it to work. I assume I wasn't doing something just right. But, I was able to get your first solution to work with little fuss.
I will go ahead and read the link you provided. I've also saw another recommendation in another post about the a book, "The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, 2nd Edition" which I have ordered from nerdbooks.com for $26.00. Thanks, Darren On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Nuno Maltez <nuno.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
