#django

wyoung: No, they're in SE Asia but not Australia.

hamdjan__: Eh, can you rephrase? Or maybe show us an example of what you mean?

HI there! I have a model which includes some foreignkeys...When creating the template using for loop, I would like these foreignkeys fields to appear at the top of each relative subfield...but same are repeated on each line...where is my mistake? https://dpaste.de/Pwit

mattmcc, http://dpaste.com/26F59QM

hamdjan__: That would work fine.

mattmcc, oh, then i'll retry and see what went wrong, thanks

rufus_: What does your view look like?

mattmcc: hi. on any row for the staff name, position etc, also the header branch is repeated, while I would like the branch name appearing only once at the top of the staff names..

do i need sendmail installed for django to send mail and error reports?

No, but you do need to tell Django what SMTP server to use.

recommended method of redirecting to ?next?

Whether that's local, some MTA of your own, or a service like Mailgun.

i set it to gmail but it's not sending

bayman: look into mailgun

https://dpaste.de/CESz is there anything wrong w/ my logging settings?

looks like mailgun is deprecated in favor of anymail

mailgun is an smtp provider my friend

well transactional email

oh i was looking at the django-mailgun package

I know

:P

you don't need to use anymail. sparkpost and mailgun are smtp compatible

hi everyone, I'm trying to include a form in a ListView, but I'm having some trouble understanding this traceback: https://gist.github.com/Flobin/56bdaf52094dd7b9...

anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

why would a ListView have a self.objct ?

you've mixed incompatible stuff, flobin

because I don't really know what the hell I'm doing... heh

it would help, of course, if you showed your code

oh the views.py and template is in that link also

oh, I see

so, the ModelFormMixin expects to have a SingleObjectMixin with it... but ListView uses MultipleObjectMixin

I would recommend have your list view submit to a different view that processes the post

that way if there's validation errors, it can re-display the form.. clean up, and redirect back to the list

right, I wasn't planning on the ListView actually handling the form submission

but I would like to (be able to) display the form in the ListView

so you mixed in the modelformmixin because....

because I thought that's how you get the form into the template...

should it just be in def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): ?

yes

ah sweet, this works

thanks so much FunkyBob

does anyone know how to create a post form and comment form for the django rest framework? (not django) http://192.241.153.25:8000

Hi all - when using a ForeignKey, can I specify somehow what the foreign key should be?

You can specify which field on the related model to use.

ah ok, thanks. and can I set primary_key=True on the related model even if it's not a true primary key?

i.e. not distinct for every row

Not sure I follow.

e.g. model A has only the field username. model B has username and company. In a view, I want to display the usernames found in model A (comes from a MS SQL DB), and the company from model B (comes from Salesforce).

Okay, the ORM doesn't really support tables that lack a proper primary key.

I see. In this scenario, how would I look up the company name from a username from the MS SQL model? (note that I've brought both into ORM)

since the company name only exists in the Salesforce model

Seems like you want ForeignKey(ModelB, to_field='username')

ah ok, let me try that. Were you saying that this is unsupported in Django ORM?

No, that works fine. The potential problem is if the tables really do lack a primary key.

If username is unique, you might be able to use that.

doesn't Django automatically build a primary key for each model unless I specify primary_key=True for a particular field?

It puts a field named 'id' on the model, but that has to also exist on the table.

oh ok. in that case, Salesforce does have one. the MS SQL table holding usernames doesn't. but the usernames are unique on the MS SQL table