Here is my Category model (With generic relations) that has unlimited depth and it works
http://dpaste.com/hold/84881/ It has generic relations since so many things need to be categorized and I didnt think writing a category model for each thing followed the DRY principle, but if you dont need that just take out the 3 fields that are used for generic relations. Dj Gilcrease OpenRPG Developer ~~http://www.openrpg.com On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:52 AM, coderb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > I'm having trouble with a category table when trying to add rows in > admin > > my model is a Category table with a self reference using 'parent' > which enables unlimited depth of categories. Its defined as follows: > > class Category(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=100) > slug = models.SlugField() > parent = models.ForeignKey('self',default=1,null=True) > seq = models.IntegerField(default=10) > active = models.BooleanField(default=1) > > def __unicode__(self): > return self.name > > > (default=1,null=True option on parent was just a test for this issue) > > My problem is this: > when trying to add a category in djangos standard admin, I keep > getting an error that Parent is required. I guess Foreignkeys are > always required. > So what I tried was changing the parent to an integer,and entered > value 1 for parent. > then I changed parent back to a foreignkey and then in admin it worked > because parent value of 1 happened to be the same as the first > generated primary key value. > Of course this would not be the way to solve this issue, since I would > have the same issue every time I want to enter a top level category. > unless I create an initial top level dummy category called > 'categories' which all top level categories will reference. > > I'm not sure what the best practice approach is here, any advice would > be greatly appreciated. > if this a good appropach, then I need to also figure out how to > display the categories in a hierachy depending on their parent. > > thanks > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
