References on Admin Page

[rmad1717]

Is it possible to get references as a dropdown in Torch Admin page, like Django Admin?

[cpjolicoeur]

I'm not familiar with Django Admin. Could you give me an example or screenshot of what you are looking for?

Or at least describe now what/where you'd like to see a change vs what Torch currently does?

[rmad1717]

Lets say I have two tables called cities and countries. cities has a foreign key to country. When I open page of a city it should show a list of names or ids of countries(it would be great if we have the ability to define which field value of country should appear in dropdown) in the the foreign key field for country.

[rmad1717]

Is it possible to have this in torch?

[cpjolicoeur]

Sure. You could format the views anyway you like with Torch.

Don't forget that Torch is just a generator. Your admin views are generated once, but the expectation is that you will edit and modify them to suit your needs, and alter the views as the shape of your models changes over time.

It's pretty simple today to modify a torch view and add the functionality you are describing on a per-case basis.

The initial generators could get a bit smarter though and handle FK reference inputs in this manner as well as an enhancement down the line.

If you want to take a try at it and submit a PR to get the ball rolling, that would be awesome!