I also forgot to mention two things, the model documentation states that each model subclasses django.db.models.Model, and I believe it will not work to subclass a model. I believe I tried this when I first started with Django last year and it would not work. Secondly, based on your coment that you have been playing with and learning about manipulators for a few hours now, if you are new to Django, you may want to avoid using Manipulators as the newforms will be replacing them, if not before, in Version 1.
-richard On Aug 10, 10:18 pm, r_f_d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure I understand, I think you want to archive a model > instance? or put another way, when the model is no longer active or > useful to the user, you would essentially like to treat that database > record differently than other records. In that case, you could simply > change the archived field to a boolean, set true on it when you > archive it, and the modified field would automatically record the > date. Then all you have to do is filter out all of the archived or > non archived models via Assessment.objects.filter(archived__exact = > True) or = False. This would make your views much easier to customize > as would only be dealing with one model. > hth, > -richard > > On Aug 10, 7:40 pm, Carlos Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > I have a model which I would like to archive. My thought was to > > extend that model with one additional DateTimeField called archived. > > But I am having difficulty saving an instance of the archived object > > based on an existing object. > > > class Assessment(models.Model): > > student = models.ForeignKey(Student) > > created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, editable=False) > > modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, editable=False) > > background = models.TextField(blank=True) > > ... > > > class ArchivedAssessment(Assessment): > > archived = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, editable=False) > > > I am working within the admin interface and creating a view to take > > the saved Assessment and save it as an ArchivedAssessment. It seems > > like it should be relatively easy to do, but I am not seeing how. > > I've been learning about and playing with Manipulators for a couple > > hours now. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Carlos Hanson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
