Re: modelForm ordering [SOLVED]

2010-04-26 Thread backdoc
Yes, you understood my problem. Thanks. That helped. I tried both suggestions. Your second suggestion looked a little easier. So, I tried it first. I couldn't get it to work. I assume I wasn't doing something just right. But, I was able to get your first solution to work with little fuss.

Re: modelForm ordering

2010-04-26 Thread Nuno Maltez
I'm not sure I understood correctly what you wanted to achieve, but if you want to order the Persons in the dropdown for the players field by name, you need to change the order of the queryset associated with that field. For a ForeignKey field, a ModelForm generates a ModelChoiceField http://docs.

Re: modelForm ordering

2010-04-25 Thread backdoc
That still doesn't work. In fact, no matter which column I select, I still get the same order. This is my current code: 101 class Rotation(models.Model): 102 player = models.ForeignKey(Person, to_field='f_name', verbose_name='Player', limit_choices_to={'relationship' : 'Player'}) 103 da

Re: modelForm ordering

2010-04-21 Thread derek
On Apr 20, 4:09 pm, darren wrote: > I am not able to figure out how to order the records that fill the > drop down list in a model form.  On line 112 below, I have attempted > to order the Rotation model by player.  But, the drop down list that > is created for me is not ordered that way.  I also

modelForm ordering

2010-04-20 Thread darren
I am not able to figure out how to order the records that fill the drop down list in a model form. On line 112 below, I have attempted to order the Rotation model by player. But, the drop down list that is created for me is not ordered that way. I also tried relocating line 112 to within the Met