On Oct 13, 1:20 pm, andreas schmid <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 might find this helpful:
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/replicating-djangos-admin/
Em
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