On Jun 12, 8:54 pm, Rana <rd4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to modify a blog and article model that will both display > data from a related products model. I read that the way I should do > this is through the ContentTypes framework and generic foreign > relations. I would be grateful for some guidance on how to do this. > I've read the documentation on > thehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/contenttypes/ > website, but I am struggling with how to relate it to what I need to > do. > > I have something like this presently: > > articles/models.py > --------------------------------------- > class Article(models.Model): > author = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='article_author') > headline = models.CharField(max_length=256) > publish_content = models.TextField(blank=True) > ... > related_product = models.ManyToManyField('RelatedProduct', null=True, > blank=True) > > class RelatedProduct(models.Model): > product_name = models.CharField(max_length=256) > product_link = models.TextField(max_length=512) > > blogs/models.py > ---------------------------------------- > class Blog(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=128) > long_description = models.TextField() > short_description = models.TextField() > > I would like to modify this so that I can have the related products > from articles also available in my Blog class and the related products > table should be the same between Article class and Blog class, i.e. I > do not want to have two instances of the RelatedProduct class. > > Thank you for any help you can offer. > > Rana
You don't need generic relations here, just add a related_product ManyToMany field do the Blog model in exactly the same way as you did for the Article model. -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
