heya, NB: This is a followup to this:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/0fdc1dfb1fddb97b/6b559dc4abf5d4ea but I thought I'd also ask about the model design. To provide some background, we have a Django app that contains a list of journal articles. Each "Article" also has a m2m relationship to "Firm" as well as "Spokesperson" class Article(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) publication_date = models.DateField() abstract = models.TextField() # Can we restrict this to 450 characters? ...fields ommited for brevity... firm = models.ManyToManyField(Firm, null=True, blank=True, through='FirmRating') spokesperson = models.ManyToManyField(Spokeperson, null=True, blank=True, through='SpokespersonRating') The intermediary models, FirmRating and SpokespersonRating look like this: class FirmRating(models.Model): firm = models.ForeignKey(Firm) article = models.ForeignKey(Article) rating = models.IntegerField() Basically, we use it to store the m2m link, as well as a "rating" assigned to each relationship. The issue is, as soon as I change it from a normal m2m relationship to one with a "through" attribute, it seems to completely disappear in the Django Admin from the "Add Article" page. Before, I had a nice little filter_horizontal widget to create the relationships. No, zippo...that's not a bug, is it? Anyhow, Firstly, am I doing this the right way? Or is there another way to create an Article, have it m2m with Firms/Spokesperson, and assign an individual rating to each relationship? Secondly, is there some way of making a m2m with intermediary visibile in the admin - is it intended behaviour for it to disappear? In an ideal world, I'd like to have the filter_horizontal, as well as an inline widget to set the rating, all on the "Add Article" page. However, I'm prepared to have just the filter_horizontal for the m2m, and set the rating separately, on a separate page just for FirmRating/ SpokespersonRating (it obviously breaks the workflow a bit there). How do people normally deal with editing m2m intermediary models in Django? Cheers, Victor -- 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.
