First off all I want to thank you all for this excellent web
framework. I had never built a database driven web site, but Django
has given me the motivation to create a small intranet site for our
office and I am very happy with the progress I have been able to make
so far. I realize that it is still in heavy design/development so I
am prepared to be patient with some features. I do have a couple of
quick questions though.
I have a model for our personnel/contacts that look like this:
class Contact(models.Model):
first = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
last = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
login_name = models.CharField(maxlength=15, blank=True)
is_staff = models.BooleanField()
etc...
def __str__(self):
return '%s %s' % (self.first, self.last)
class Admin:
list_display = ('first', 'last', 'phone', 'email', 'company',)
ordering = ('first','last')
I am trying to create an application that will allow users to post
when they are going to be out of the office. So, after creating the
app, I created a model that looks like this:
class away(models.Model):
contact = models.ForeignKey(Contact, verbose_name="Name of person
away", limit_choices_to= {'is_staff':True}, db_column='contact')
out_time = models.DateTimeField()
return_time = models.DateTimeField()
comments = models.TextField(maxlength=3000, blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return '%s' % (self.contact,)
class Admin:
list_display = ('contact', 'out_time', 'return_time',
'location_reason', 'comments',)
list_filter = ('out_time', 'return_time',)
ordering = ('out_time','return_time',)
search_fields = ('contact',)
It actually works! In the admin interface it displays the 'contact'
field as a combination of the 'first' and 'last' fields of the
contact, which is exactly what I wanted. But, my question is how did
it know to do that? What if I had wanted it to display the
'login_name' instead, for instance?
The second question is related to the same field. In the create new
'Away' form, the contact field is shown as a select field, which is
great, but the items in it are not sorted. They are placed in the
order in which they are created. Is there a way to sort the items on
that list?
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