allow text input to be used to create a new foreign key object about django-ajax-selects

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I was wondering if there's any update on this feature?

I'm currently working on something like this, and was curious of the best 
approach.  
One can just check if the ajax results come back empty AND user enters some 
text, then 
just create the new foreign field automatically.

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Mar 2010 at 6:46

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I just added support for adding via a pop up. (green +)

@yevmail You can do what you want to do by using an AutoComplete.  have the 
channel search for models and 
return the name of the object.  in your form implement clean_fieldname() and at 
that point lookup the model by 
name using YourModel.objects.get_or_create(name=name) and insert it into 
cleaned_data[fieldname].  I think that 
should work

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Mar 2010 at 12:02

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Has anyone got this working?

I had to modify the clean() method on the form field, but that method gets the 
foreignkey (pk-value) passed after validation and will not receive the actual 
text input (name). If the input does not match an existign FK object, the value 
passed to clean() will be empty and there is no request object to grab the text 
input from, so no way to Model.objects.get_or_create.

I would really like to see this feature implemented.

Original comment by [email protected] on 22 Sep 2010 at 4:06

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Hi, I need to resurrect this. crucialfelix, can you please show how to do it? 
I'd like to look at some code I can then integrate with mine. Thanks!

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Dec 2010 at 3:30

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Some code to look at would help a lot. But since last activity was a year ago, 
maybe Felix won't make it available.

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Dec 2011 at 7:07

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The code has moved to https://github.com/crucialfelix/django-ajax-selects

as for this feature, to be honest I am driven by my own client's needs and I 
haven't needed this.

just off the top of my head thinking about it :  use an AutoComplete field (not 
a foreign key one) and give it a unique field name that is not on the model.  
implement Form save() and you should have access to the 
cleaned_data['fake_field'] and can get_or_create there and set the fk on the 
instance.

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Dec 2011 at 8:30