#django

Anyway, most people have no clue what office suite opened -- they just care that they got their useful data in a format they can mess with prior to printing or easily convert into a presentation slide.

Now if only Apple would support ODF. :P (I have a lot of Pages-using coworkers)

Just install LO behind their backs -- its what I've had our clients' IT people do, and none of the users noticed. Which begs the question: why did they pay JPY 30k+ per seat for the MS Office licenses? They don't use it *at all* because their only use case involves data that I export for them to ODF... GAHH!

I should have been more "consultantly" and charged them that on top... per seat.

when I use the project command from django-admin.py startproject poll_app via virtualenv, why am I getting this file structure: poll_app/poll_app/_init_.py?

demet8: The project structure changed in 1.4. If you were to run manage.py startapp, it would then create apps like poll_app/other_app. Next to the project directory, instead of inside it.

@mattmcc I just found that on the django site. Thank you for your help.

Is there a quick way to have a filter to a FK within a ModelForm? For example, in my "Production Lines" Add Form (ModelForm) I have a FK to a "Plants" model. I need to constraint the available plants… do I always have to overwrite the field in the init?

zxq9: that's pretty neat

abisson: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/model...

abisson: limit_choices_to works if the condition isn't dynamic. Otherwise, yes, you'd need to do it in the form constructor.

mattmcc: what do you mean by dynamic?

abisson: Say the list of available plants depended on which user was filling out the form, or depended on some other condition that the user can specify in the form.

If you simply have a Plant.active field, then limit_choices_to would work.

arggg yeah… the available plants will depend on which user is using the application

therefore… it won't work right?

Right, so pass the user to the form constructor and filter the field's queryset from there.

aight!

mattmcc: let me try something, i'll get back in 2

mattmcc: I keep getting the following error: http://dpaste.org/93eam/

abisson: If you want to customize the label like that, subclass ModelChoiceField and define label_from_instance(self, obj).

mattmcc: wait… for what?

The manager field.

mmm let me try to find an example

mattmcc: frisking SO is down lol

There's really not much to it. Subclass the field, give it that method which receives a model instance (A Manager instance in your case) and return the string you want to use for the choice field's label.

how d everybody