On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael Repucci <mich...@repucci.org>wrote:
> > I'm new to Django, and already loving it. But I'm stumbling a bit with > how to accomplish the following task. Perhaps this isn't the best > approach, but most of the site is working as planned, and it was super > easy to get up and running. > > I have a Contact model and a Person model, the latter of which has a > ForeignKey field (contact) to a Contact instance. Both Contact and > Person models have an owner field (also ForeignKey), so that I can > associate a particular User (django.contrib.auth.models) through the > admin site with their own Contact and Person instances. That way, I > can filter the admin site, so that each User (aside from superusers) > sees only their own Contact and Person instances. > > This all works marvelously, except in one place: on the default > <select> box for the contact field on the Person add/change form on > the admin site. I can't seem to find out how to filter the Contact > instances by User when displaying this select box. I thought the > solution would be through the formfield_for_foreignkey method, but I > implemented it as described in the admin site documentation, and it > doesn't work. I would try to debug it a bit, but don't really know how > to get it to output any values for me. > > So please help me learn how to debug formfield_for_foreignkey, if that > is the right solution, or offer a different approach. Please do try to > take me slowly through any suggestion(s) you may have, and point me > toward documentation, if available, as I am totally new to this. Thank > you! > > > What version of Django are you running? The formfield_for_foreignkey hook only exissts in trunk, not in 1.0.2, so if you're on 1.0.2 you'll need to overide the formfield_for_dbfield method, which is a little more general. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
