Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-21 Thread larry.mart...@gmail.com
On Feb 21, 6:11 am, Mario Gudelj wrote: > not sure what you mean there, I have a class that inherits from Model, and I want my field to be in that class. > but take a look at > thishttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield That looks to be for foreign key referen

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-21 Thread Mario Gudelj
not sure what you mean there, but take a look at this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield On 21 February 2012 23:36, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: > On Feb 20, 9:52 pm, Mario Gudelj wrote: > > Hey there, > > > > Try this: > > > > In your forms.py create a fi

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-21 Thread larry.mart...@gmail.com
On Feb 20, 9:52 pm, Mario Gudelj wrote: > Hey there, > > Try this: > > In your forms.py create a field such as this > > message = forms.ChoiceField(label='Event Type', choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) > > That will create a dropdown. My app does not have a forms.py file. I know I can just create one,

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread Mario Gudelj
Hey there, Try this: In your forms.py create a field such as this message = forms.ChoiceField(label='Event Type', choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) That will create a dropdown. Also, I think that the first thing in the tuple is a value and shouldn't have a space, so change: EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (('

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread larry.mart...@gmail.com
On Feb 20, 5:54 pm, Anurag Chourasia wrote: > This is weird > > I simply copy pasted your code in my environment and it shows me a Drop > Down. > > Could you save the models file again and close your browser (or even try > clearing cache) and restart your apache/django dev server whatever may

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread Micky Hulse
Your code looks good to me. Maybe you need to restart apache (or similar)? This is typically the format I use for choice fields: LIVE_STATUS = 1 DRAFT_STATUS = 2 HIDDEN_STATUS = 3 STATUS_CHOICES = ( (LIVE_STATUS, u'Live'), (DRAFT_STATUS, u'Draft'), (HIDDEN_STATUS, u'Hidden'), ) statu

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread Anurag Chourasia
This is weird I simply copy pasted your code in my environment and it shows me a Drop Down. Could you save the models file again and close your browser (or even try clearing cache) and restart your apache/django dev server whatever may be the case and try again? Regards, Anurag On Mon, Feb

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread larry.mart...@gmail.com
On Feb 20, 5:39 pm, Stanwin Siow wrote: > Try removing > > "Event Type", > > in the following > > message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12, > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) > > Best Regards, > > Stanwin Siow No difference. > > On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:32 AM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wro

Re: dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread Stanwin Siow
Try removing "Event Type", in the following message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12, choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) Best Regards, Stanwin Siow On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:32 AM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: > ield("Event Type", max_length=12, > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES) -- You

dropdown select box in django

2012-02-20 Thread larry.mart...@gmail.com
I'm fairly new to django, still getting my feet wet. I want to have a dropdown menu (django seems to call this a select box). I read this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.Field.choices So I did this: class EventsTable(models.Model): EVENT_TYPE_CHOICE