On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Joshua Russo<josh.r.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Marek Palatinus <ma...@palatinus.cz> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Im doing some validation in ModelAdmin.save_model(). I can cancel >> operation (just dont call parent method), but I also need to show some >> error message to user. Im able to call self.message_user() and show >> INFO message, but how to send ERROR message and maybe show form back >> and force user to correct inputs? >> >> I need validation on level of whole formset, not on field level, so I >> cannot use some custom field to achieve that. > > What you want is to override the ModelAdmin.form with a custom form and > handle the clean_xxx() methods there. Django form validation is done in the > form objects/classes. > Create a ModelForm > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/) and then set > your ModelAdmin.form to your new ModelForm. >
Joshua, thanks a lot! to others: there also exists clean() which have available all fields from form at one place. Regards, Marek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
