Already tried to find a better approach without success, raw_id is now the
best option.
On 2 August 2010 10:54, Sævar Öfjörð <saeva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If someone is interested,
> I just used raw_id_fields in my intermediary inline modeladmin.
>
> class AuthorshipInline(admin.TabularInline):
> raw_id_fields = ('author',)
>
> This isn't exactly what I was going for, but it takes the really big
> select fields out of the picture.
>
> - Sævar
>
> On Jul 27, 5:24 am, ringemup <ringe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You might want to check out grappelli and its Related Lookups feature:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/django-grappelli/
> >
> > On Jul 26, 4:30 pm, Sævar Öfjörð <saeva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> >
> > > I have some models (Song and Author) that are related through an
> > > intermediary model (Authorship) like this:
> >
> > > class Song(models.Model)
> > > authors = models.ManyToManyField('Author', through='Authorship')
> >
> > > class Author(models.Model)
> > > name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
> >
> > > class Authorship(models.Model):
> > > AUTHORSHIP_TYPES = (
> > > ('lyrics', 'Lyrics'),
> > > ('melody', 'Melody'),
> > > ('cover', 'Cover'),
> > > )
> > > author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
> > > song = models.ForeignKey(Song)
> > > authorship_type = models.CharField(choices=AUTHORSHIP_TYPES)
> >
> > > I have inline editing set up in the admin for Song, so that
> > > authorships can be created/edited/deleted from the Song instance.
> > > But now the Authors have grown to about 2500 objects, which means that
> > > each select box contains 2500 options. This is too slow and I'm
> > > looking for an alternative.
> >
> > > I have come across Django Ajax Selects:
> http://code.google.com/p/django-ajax-selects/
> > > And Django Ajax Filtered Fields:
> http://code.google.com/p/django-ajax-filtered-fields/
> > > (actually I'm not sure if this can be used in the django admin)
> >
> > > But I haven't seen anything in their documentation about support for
> > > intermediary models like my Authorship model.
> >
> > > Has anyone had this problem and found a solution for it?
> >
> > > - Sævar
>
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