Help with related objects

[Carlos Yoder]

Hello all, I'm asking for help again, this time with related objects.

I need to do what I think is a very simple task: allow users to edit their own preferences (using a custom 'admin' like interface).

Their own preferences are located in an extension of the User model, as follows:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey (User, core=True, edit_inline=False, max_num_in_admin=1, min_num_in_admin=1, num_in_admin=1, num_extra_on_change=0, unique=True)

    receive_new_cars_newsletter = models.BooleanField("Subscribed to daily 'new cars' newsletter?", null=False, blank=False, default=True)
    receive_modif_cars_newsletter = models.BooleanField("Subscribed to daily 'new cars' newsletter?", null=False, blank=False, default=True)
   
    def __str__(self):
        return ("%s" % self.user)
   

When users are created by the superadmin (via the normal Admin interface), these related fields are not populated, naturally. So, I'd have to present the users with default values for receive_new_cars_newsletter and receive_modif_cars_newsletter (only a checkbox, as it is), and allow them to set their values.

This is an excruciatingly easy thing to do, but still I can't find my way around generic views, forms, manipulators, related objects, the undocumented 'follow' and the rest of the pie. It's -of course- the first time I tackle this, so I want to do things right, but I'm honestly running out of time.

I wanted to have a special URL such as /my_data/, that would display the change form (the proper object_id being inferred from request.user). That's why  I couldn't do it with generic views.

Could anyone point me into the right place (admin sources is OK) to have a look and borrow what's needed for this?

BTW, everything works as expected from the shell, the interface is what I'm not getting.


Thanks a million, and best regards

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Carlos Yoder
http://carlitosyoder.blogspot.com
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