On 12/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best way to handle situation where I sometimes I know the > exact date of an event, and sometimes I know only a less specific part? > > Recording date: 1972-10-15 (No problem) > > but when I only know the month, 1972-10, or the year 1972, admin throws > a validation error.
Hi Dan, In this case, your best bet is to use a different type of field. Even if you changed the validation to be looser, the data for a DateField still fundamentally needs to be a complete date (with month, day and year) in order to fit in the database column. A database column of type DATE cannot accept partially filled dates. I'd suggest using a CharField instead. The downside to this is that you can't take advantage of date-specific queries, such as retrieving all the records where the date is in a certain month, but whether that's a problem depends on your application. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
