I'm assuming you are doing this somewhere other than the admin, or in custom views, so I'll explain how the admin stuff works.
Basically, when you create the popup window you give it a name which can be used the uniquely identify the field that is using the popup (some variant on the field id would be ideal). Your main page (not the popup) should also have a javascript function to be called after the new author is saved (in the case of django admin, this function is called dismissAddAnotherPopup and is in RelatedObjectLookup.js). Now the clever part (which I had to hunt around for when I needed this functionality, you can find it around line 608 in django.contrib.admin.options.py), is that when you successfully save the new author, you return an HttpResponse that consists of nothing but a script tag that executes owner.yourFunctionName(window_name,new_object_id (in the case of the django admin this would be owner.dismissAddAnotherPopup), window_name is the unique identifier you passed in originally. This causes the browser to execute the function in the owner window (the one that created the popup) with the parameters you specified - which includes the ID of the new object. Django's code also provides the representation string of the object so it can be added to the select box. Then you just make your JS function close the popup with window_name.close(). I may not have explained it that well, but the key parts are in RelatedObjectLookup.js and options.py (near line 608). I hope this helps. - Andrew Ingram 2009/10/13 nabucosound <hecto...@gmail.com>: > > This is the default behaviour in Django Admin, dude... > > On Oct 13, 9:43 am, andreas schmid <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hi, >> >> how can i achieve a behaviour like in the admin backend where i can add >> a related object through a popup window and have it selectable after i >> saved the related form? >> >> for example: >> im copleting the form book and i have to select the author but it doesnt >> exist yet... so i click on the + (add) button and a popup window appears >> where i create the editor object, and i can select it in the book form >> right after i saved and closed this popup window. >> >> can somebody point me to the code? >> >> thank you in advance... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
