Re: Many to Many fields and through table

2018-07-04 Thread johnasmith . dev
Hi Mark, Thank you for your question, I might actually do the same. I just had issues on a model with 2 M2M relationships (one using an intermediary table, one without). I would just caveat what James Schneider said, there are some differences. My simply M2M relationship threw me Field Requir

Re: Many to Many fields and through table

2017-12-19 Thread Simon Charette
Hello Mark, The only downside I can think of is that you won't be able to create relationships from the m2m managers, you'll have to create the relationship directly instead. This isn't such a big issue if you plan on adding fields later to the intermediary model later on anyway. You can read mo

Re: Many to Many fields and through table

2017-12-19 Thread James Schneider
On Dec 19, 2017 1:53 PM, "Mark Phillips" wrote: Is there any downside to creating a through table in a many to many relationship when there isn't any "extra" related data, but there might be in the future? I have read that migrating from a simple m2m relationship to a m2m with a through table ta

Many to Many fields and through table

2017-12-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Is there any downside to creating a through table in a many to many relationship when there isn't any "extra" related data, but there might be in the future? I have read that migrating from a simple m2m relationship to a m2m with a through table takes some jumping through hurdles, so I am consider