Validation for unique slugs. Requires a minor change to the admin view. {{{ --- django/contrib/admin/views/main.py (revision 3185) +++ django/contrib/admin/views/main.py (working copy) @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ if request.POST: new_data = request.POST.copy() - + new_data.update({'id':object_id}) if opts.has_field_type(models.FileField): new_data.update(request.FILES) }}} someapp/models.py {{{ class isUniqueSlug: def __init__(self, slug, app, model): self.slug, self.app, self.model = slug, app, model def __call__(self, field_data, all_data): from django.core.validators import ValidationError from django.utils.translation import gettext, gettext_lazy from django.db.models.loading import get_model model = get_model(self.app,self.model) if all_data.get('id', None): q=model.objects.exclude(id=all_data.get('id')) else: q=model.objects.all() try: d = {self.slug+'__exact': field_data} p = q.get(**d) except: p=None if p: raise ValidationError, gettext_lazy("Is not a unique slug.") class Somemodel(models.Model): any_slug = models.SlugField(validator_list=[isUniqueSlug('any_slug','someapp','Somemodel')]) }}}