Donn, You could use the filter_(horizontal|vertical) solution available on Admin. For more details: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#filter-horizontal
[]s, Diego Ucha http://www.diegoucha.com/ On 26 set, 18:28, bruno desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 sep, 19:12, Donn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I thought I'd ask before rolling my own (at tedious pace) widget/whatever: > > > If you have a foreign key field to a table of thousands of, say, author > > names, > > the drop-down control becomes a real problem: > > 1. It's not paged so all the items have to be stuffed into the html. > > 2. It's damn hard to use. > > > What are the alternatives? Any working solutions out there? How does one > > offer > > a choice out of thousands? > > Most answers will require javascript. The 'simplest' one is to use a > "popup" window in which you'll have paging, filtering etc. More > complex (well... not necessarily more complex in fact) are ajax based > - like, as David mentioned, an autocomplete combo. If you want to > avoid javascript, you'll need to store the current form's state and > whatnots (using session) and redirect to a page displaying possible > choices with (just like with the popup solution) paging, filtering > etc, and once choice made "return" to the form's page restoring saved > state. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
