Lordy, I would dearly *LOVE* for someone to answer your question!
On 07-Jun-5, at 6:52 AM, larry wrote: > >> I'm not sure what "a patch in the development tree" means here. >> Current >> subversion trunk doesn't seem to have anything like that. > > Sorry for not being clear -- I'm (obviously) not familiar with the > mechanism of open source / django development. What I was referring > to is the ticket you mentioned (4001) and the "patch" is the file > attached to that ticket (save_instance_m2m.patch). > >> Remember that the situation where a form maps precisely onto a >> model is >> a very specialised case. In the general case, you need to build the >> objects you are going to save manually anyway (since one form >> provides >> information for many models). So the workaround that springs to >> mind in >> this case is to forget about using form_for_model() and just build >> the >> form by hand and construct the save objects in your view. It's only a >> few lines of code. > > That sounds great (in fact, I was forced to combine two tables into > one in order to coerce the data into something that can be easily used > by form_for_model). However, I'm not sure where to start to come to > grips with the concepts of "objects you are going to save", "build the > form by hand", and "construct the save objects". > > I'm guessing that this means instantiating models, creating the form > bound to data from several different model classes, then (on POST) > instantiating new model instances, somehow unpacking the data from the > form into the appropriate model classes, and saving the instances. > > If you can direct me to a simple example of a view that does this > (including a many-to-many field in one of the models if such a field > requires any special handling in the view) it would be greatly > appreciated. I guess my three sticking points are 1) how to create a > form from _several_ objects, 2) how to create the form from several > _models_ when the user is trying to add new information and 3) how to > instantiate the multiple save objects from the POSTed form. > > Many thanks for your kind assistance in what I know must be quite a > simple operation. > -- > Larry Lustig > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
