thank you very much for pointing me to the right path!! ill try to understand the behaviour and report about my progress...
Andrew Ingram wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
