Re: dropdown select box in django

Hey there,

Try this:

In your forms.py create a field such as this

message = forms.ChoiceField(label='Event Type', choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES)

That will create a dropdown.

Also, I think that the first thing in the tuple is a value and shouldn't have a space, so change:

EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (('Event Created', 'EventCreated'),('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'),)

to:

EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (('event_created', 'Event Created'),('event_changed', 'Event Changed'),)

See if that works for you.

Cheers,

-m

 message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12,
> > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES)

On 21 February 2012 12:28, Larry.Martell@gmail.com <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 20, 5:54 pm, Anurag Chourasia <anurag.choura...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> This is weird....
>
> I simply copy pasted your code in my environment and it shows me a Drop
> Down.
>
> Could you save the models file again and close your browser (or even try
> clearing cache) and restart your apache/django dev server whatever may be
> the case and try again?

Tried all that, still no joy. Also tried 2 different browsers, no
difference. In the dev server also tried setting a breakpoint and then
printing out message.choices, and it has the choices I expected:

(Pdb) print message.choices
(('Event Created', 'EventCreated'), ('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'))



>
> Regards,
> Anurag
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Larry.Mart...@gmail.com <
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm fairly new to django, still getting my feet wet. I want to have a
> > dropdown menu (django seems to call this a select box). I read this:
>
> >https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.mo...
>
> > So I did this:
>
> > class EventsTable(models.Model):
> >    EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES = (
> >        ('Event Created', 'EventCreated'),
> >        ('Event Changed', 'EventChanged'),
> >    )
>
> >    message = models.CharField("Event Type", max_length=12,
> > choices=EVENT_TYPE_CHOICES)
>
> > But I get a standard text entry field where I can type in anything.
>
> > I did more googling, and I read a lot of confusing stuff about having
> > to use javascrpt, ajax, CSS, etc. I read some pages about using a
> > ChoiceField, but that is not part of the model class (it's in the
> > forms class). I'm not sure how that would be used with a class that
> > inherits form models.
>
> > What am I missing here? I can't imagine something as common as this
> > would be hard in django. Shouldn't the first thing I did work?
>
> > TIA!
> > -larry
>
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