Dear Daniel, Thanks so much for your help. I tried what you suggested and it works just as I need it to. Thank you again.
Kind Regards, Rana On Jun 13, 3:01 am, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
