Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of NewAdminChanges

Timestamp:

Oct 18, 2005, 3:55:08 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

rjwittams

Comment:

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NewAdminChanges

@@ -73 +73 @@
 Without these changes, the new fixes will not work. It should work about as well as the trunk without these changes. 
 
-== Manipulators ==
+== Manipulators and inline editing ==
 
 Manipulators have a new optional argument to their constructors: {{{follow}}}. The argument is a dictionary indicating which fields and related objects to extract in flatten_data and examine when saving the object.
@@ -83 +83 @@
 
 This is the set of fields shown by the admin. 
+
+Currently, the FormWrapper must be passed edit_inline=True to gain access to these fields. 
+This will probably be removed. 
+
+examples of dictionarys to be used as {{{follow}}} arguments. 
+
+Suppress the field 'name'.
+{{{
+follow = {
+  'name': False,
+}
+}}}
+
+Show the editable=False field 'job'
+{{{
+ 
+follow = { 'job' : True, }
+
+
+}}}
+
+Show the set of related objects in the module 'choices'
+{{{
+follow = {
+   'choices': True,
+}
+
+}}}
+
+Show the set of related objects in the module 'choices', but suppress the 'poll' field of each choice object:
+{{{
+
+  follow = {
+     'choices': { 
+        'poll': False
+     }
+  }
+
+}}}
+
+Put it all together: 
+{{{
+  follow = {
+    'name' : False,
+    'job' : True,
+    'choices' : {
+       'poll' : False
+    }
+  }
+}}}
+
+An example of using this in a view function:
 
 {{{
@@ -110 +162 @@
 
     # Populate the FormWrapper.
-    form = formfields.FormWrapper(manipulator, new_data, errors, edit_inline = True) # ,----- EXTRA ARGUMENT
+    form = formfields.FormWrapper(manipulator, new_data, errors, edit_inline = True) # <----- EXTRA ARGUMENT
     
   
@@ -116 +168 @@
 
 }}}
-
-Manipulators have a new method, {{{flatten_data()}}}. This takes the data from the existing object (or the defaults in the case of an {{{AddManipulator}}}) and turns it into a suitable form for an HTTP post. It must be called before creating the formfield wrapper is created.
 
 == Templates ==