On Feb 3, 5:56 pm, harryos <oswald.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> I have an Entry class that has no title but is to be represented
> uniquely by a combination of its category and a datetime value.The
> Category has a name field.I have modelled these like
>
> class MyCategory(models.Model):
> name=models.CharField(max_length=10)
> description=models.TextField(help_text='a description about the
> category')
> slug=models.SlugField(unique=True,help_text='will be auto generated
> from name')
>
> class Meta:
> verbose_name_plural="MyCategories"
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return self.name
>
> class MyEntry(models.Model):
> posted_time=models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
> category=models.ForeignKey(MyCategory)
> description=models.TextField()
> slug=models.SlugField(unique=True,help_text='will be auto generated
> from category and date')
>
> class Meta:
> verbose_name_plural="MyEntries"
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return self.slug
>
> In admin module ,I have created 2 admins
>
> class MyEntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
> prepopulated_fields= {'slug':['category','posted_time']}
> class MyCategoryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
> prepopulated_fields= {'slug':['name']}
> ordering=['name']
>
> admin.site.register(MyEntry,MyEntryAdmin)
> admin.site.register(MyCategory,MyCategoryAdmin)
>
> I think there is something wrong with the way I am creating the slug
> for MyEntry..It doesn't get created at all..I couldn't figure out how
> to do this.I would like to have a slug like
> 'programming-1010jan21-01-30-56' or similar .Can someone tell me how I
> can do this. Without a unique slug to represent an entry ,the admin
> interface lists all entries using the same string (MyEntry Object or
> something like that)..
>
> thanks
> harry
I don't think you really want a slug here. What you want is to define
a __unicode__ method that returns the value you need:
def __unicode__(self):
return "%s%s" % (self.category.name, self.posted_time)
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