Oh. It doesn't mention that in the documentation. I am using 1.0.2- final. I'll check out formfield_for_dbfield. Thanks for the pointer!
On Feb 12, 3:09 pm, Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael Repucci <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > I'm new to Django, and already loving it. But I'm stumbling a bit with > > how to accomplish the following task. Perhaps this isn't the best > > approach, but most of the site is working as planned, and it was super > > easy to get up and running. > > > I have a Contact model and a Person model, the latter of which has a > > ForeignKey field (contact) to a Contact instance. Both Contact and > > Person models have an owner field (also ForeignKey), so that I can > > associate a particular User (django.contrib.auth.models) through the > > admin site with their own Contact and Person instances. That way, I > > can filter the admin site, so that each User (aside from superusers) > > sees only their own Contact and Person instances. > > > This all works marvelously, except in one place: on the default > > <select> box for the contact field on the Person add/change form on > > the admin site. I can't seem to find out how to filter the Contact > > instances by User when displaying this select box. I thought the > > solution would be through the formfield_for_foreignkey method, but I > > implemented it as described in the admin site documentation, and it > > doesn't work. I would try to debug it a bit, but don't really know how > > to get it to output any values for me. > > > So please help me learn how to debug formfield_for_foreignkey, if that > > is the right solution, or offer a different approach. Please do try to > > take me slowly through any suggestion(s) you may have, and point me > > toward documentation, if available, as I am totally new to this. Thank > > you! > > What version of Django are you running? The formfield_for_foreignkey hook > only exissts in trunk, not in 1.0.2, so if you're on 1.0.2 you'll need to > overide the formfield_for_dbfield method, which is a little more general. > > Alex > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to > say it." --Voltaire > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
