Re: Is there a way to make a field both foreignKey or allow user to fill it in themself?

On 28/02/2018 1:26 AM, Alexander Joseph wrote:
> Is there a way to make a form field or model field either a foreign
> key reference or allow the user to fill in something themselves? I'm
> making a fixed assets app and each fixed asset has an owner field,
> which I would like to assign to an app user if possible, and if not
> possible be able to fill in a name myself.

Yes. Make the ForeignKey in the model null=True and blank=True so it can
exist all alone. Then you can limit_choices_to whatever whatever suits
your requirements ...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.limit_choices_to

hth
Mike


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