Thanks, I am using 1.1 beta and proxy looks like it was meant to do what I want, without a kludge.
will give it a shoot On Jul 19, 3:36 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Some Guy<djul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the help :-) > > > overriding queryset in modeladmin worked for the filtering. > > > as for the subclassing of the model.. > > > I've basically got a table with lots of columns ex.[a,b,c,d,e,f,g...] > > I would like to have one admin page show a,b,c,d and another that > > shows a,b,c,f,g based (ideally) on a boolean column in the table. > > > If anyone has a quick idea on how to accomplish that one i would be > > most appreciative. > > > On Jul 19, 12:53 pm, jeff <jmsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not entirely clear what you're trying to accomplish, but in > >> general when I hear "dummy" anything, I have to think there's a better > >> solution. Perhaps what you're looking for is an abstract model class, > >> from which you can subclass your two concrete ones? > >> Seehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id6. > > >> If you really need to restrict the queryset for the model admin's list > >> page, then yes, you can override the default queryset method defined > >> in ModelAdmin just as the link describes. > > >> jeff > > >> On Jul 19, 12:40 pm, Some Guy <djul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > hrmm, I found this > >> > too..http://blog.dougalmatthews.com/2008/10/filter-the-django-modeladmin-set/ > > >> > the method used is def queryset(self, request): in the model admin > >> > class... > >> > This method is not in the docs, though. > > >> > Should any of these methods be preferred over the others? > >> > any advice is appreciated :-) > > >> > On Jul 19, 12:17 pm, Some Guy <djul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > I was wondering if it's possible to have an admin page always show a > >> > > filtered (or other non-default) queryset? > > >> > > i.e. I would like the default admin page to show a queryset without > >> > > any rows that have a particular boolean field set to false. > > >> > > I've looked in the admin views.py, but haven't found anything that > >> > > looks possible. > > >> > > I just need to know if it's possible, and where to look... > > >> > > TIA > > >> > > (longer version follows) > >> > > I have a Model that I would like to display with two different > >> > > list_displays, based on whether a boolean is true or false. > > >> > > I've noticed that any model inherited with no additional fields > >> > > specified shows up in the parent model's admin page listing. I was > >> > > going to exploit this to make a dummy subclass of the model superclass > >> > > with a different list_display and register that with the adminsite. > >> > > Not sure if there is an easy way to do this, but who knows :-> there's > >> > > lots of django tricks. > > If you're on the latest development version of Django 1.1 beta I'd > make proxy subclasses on the model and register separate model admins > for each of them. > > 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 > "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you > want" -- Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
