Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#9733 closed (fixed)

Ambiguity in the docs for django.db.model.ManyToManyField

Reported by: wam Owned by: Jacob
Component: Documentation Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The docs at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ManyToManyFields.limit_choices_to says "limit_choices_to has no effect when used on a ManyToManyField with an intermediate table." This is confusing since just a few paragraphs above, it states "Behind the scenes, Django creates an intermediary join table to represent the many-to-many relationship." These two statements seem to be at odds to each other. I think what is meant is that limit_choices_to does not work on intermediate tables that are specified via the 'through' parameter, but this is only a guess (as I don't know of any other kind of intermediate table that it could be referring to.)

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Jacob, 15 years ago

milestone: 1.1
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:2 by Jacob, 15 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to Jacob
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by Jacob, 15 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

(In [10371]) Fixed a whole bunch of small docs typos, errors, and ommissions.

Fixes #8358, #8396, #8724, #9043, #9128, #9247, #9267, #9267, #9375, #9409, #9414, #9416, #9446, #9454, #9464, #9503, #9518, #9533, #9657, #9658, #9683, #9733, #9771, #9835, #9836, #9837, #9897, #9906, #9912, #9945, #9986, #9992, #10055, #10084, #10091, #10145, #10245, #10257, #10309, #10358, #10359, #10424, #10426, #10508, #10531, #10551, #10635, #10637, #10656, #10658, #10690, #10699, #19528.

Thanks to all the respective authors of those tickets.

comment:18 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.1

Milestone 1.1 deleted

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