This is weird.... I simply copy pasted your code in my environment and it shows me a Drop Down.
Could you save the models file again and close your browser (or even try clearing cache) and restart your apache/django dev server whatever may be the case and try again? Regards, Anurag On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:32 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com < larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm fairly new to django, still getting my feet wet. I want to have a > dropdown menu (django seems to call this a select box). I read this: > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.Field.choices > > So I did this: > > class EventsTable(models.Model): > EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = ( > ('Event Created', 'EventCreated'), > ('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'), > ) > > message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12, > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) > > > But I get a standard text entry field where I can type in anything. > > I did more googling, and I read a lot of confusing stuff about having > to use javascrpt, ajax, CSS, etc. I read some pages about using a > ChoiceField, but that is not part of the model class (it's in the > forms class). I'm not sure how that would be used with a class that > inherits form models. > > What am I missing here? I can't imagine something as common as this > would be hard in django. Shouldn't the first thing I did work? > > TIA! > -larry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users@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.
