I've been looking at django for a while. Been through the tutorial a few times and read 2 books several times and am still trying to find out how some things work.
Instead of an empty form on first loading, I would like to be able to fill out some selection lists with data pulled from a database table. There are 2 things I would like to achieve:-- First, I have a model with 30 fields but I want to extract 2 columns for use with a selection list. I want to get all rows in the table but only 2 columns. I have looked at using .values() but that returns a different format than a queryset. So I then found Managers. But before I start going through that I thought I would check and see if I have gone blind and missed some obvious way of getting my select list filled based on my table selection. Second thing is I want to select certain columns from a table but filter the selection based on input from the session data. At the moment, I'm not using session data, I just want to hardcode the options so I can concentrate on how I get my selection list filled. Once again my model has 10 fields, but I only want to get 2 of those to use in my selection list. I thought about filling out a dictionary and passing that in as per the samples in forms.py. But I then read that I should not be doing this. Choices in forms is for mainly static selections. So I then start looking for a way to get my data set up for a selection list. But as I say, I've looked at .objects.values() and then started to look at managers. Also I have googled all over for some reference to this problem I have and not found any link to my problem. I have some found some links that relate to some edge cases, but nothing simple. So I think I must be being a bit stupid or blind, since noone else is having this problem. I would be very pleased if someone could point me in the way to go on this. John Aherne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
