Hello everybody, I have a similar problem: a too long drop-down menu inside an inline element in the admin page. Is it possible to limit the items displayed in the drop-down list, filtering them by the value of other fields?
Thank you Paolo On 23 Ott, 18:37, Fabio Natali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody. > > In my admin page I have a field for a foreign key with hundreds of > items. That results in a drop down menu which is very difficult and > annoying to use. > > This is my models.py: > > class Prod2(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=30) > > class Prod1(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=30) > belongs_to = models.ForeignKey(Prod2) > > class Prod0(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=30) > belongs_to = models.ForeignKey(Prod2) > price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2) > #...some more details... > > class Purchase(models.Model): > product = models.ForeignKey(Prod0) > amount = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2) > #...some more details... > > My drop-down-menu-excessive-lenght problem arises when you want to > create a new Purchase item via the admin page. > > As you can see my products are organized in a hyerarchy, Prod0 being > the real products and Prod1 and Prod2 groups and super-groups of > products, respectively. > > I wonder which is the best way to have a nice, friendly drop down > menu, possibly taking advantage of the product hyerarchy (with some > kind of multi level structure...). > > Is there a way to customize the admin page without having to write the > whole page from scratch? Shall I have to add some Javascript? > > Any tips will be really appreciated. Links to code, docs and whatever > are welcome. > > All the best, > > -- > Fabio Natali --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
