> I am trying to generate a printable report when saving objects for the
> first time. This is easy enough except I can't easily access related
> objects by overriding save() as they are not saved yet, nor are they
> available within the save() method.

> The new ModelAdmin.save_related() in Django 1.4 method seems to have
> been created for just my need. The docs say: "Here you can do any pre-
> or post-save operations for objects related to the parent. Note that
> at this point the parent object and its form have already been saved."
> From what I read this seems perfect for my use case.

> I tried overriding the method as follows:

> def save_related(self, request, form, formsets, change):

>         if not change:
>             # Generate and send report only if creating for first time
>             parent_obj = form.instance
>             import pdb; pdb.set_trace();

> 1) At that point when I look into the database I don't see the saved
> parent object? This seems to contradict the docs.
> 2) I can access cleaned data from the formsets, but is there an easy
> way to simply get the related instances as I would with
> parent.child_set.all(). This would make my life much easier as I have
> written the code already to print a LaTeX report from any Django model
> (by looping _meta.fields approach).

> I would appreciate any help.

> --
> GH

> Looking at the source code I realised that form.save_m2m() must be
> called.

> def save_related(self, request, form, formsets, change):

>        form.save_m2m()
>        for formset in formsets:
>            self.save_formset(request, form, formset, change=change)

>        if not change:
>            # Generate and send report only if creating for first time
> (insert)
>            parent_obj = form.instance
>            generate_pdf(parent_obj)

> I think the above does what I wanted; so far so good anyway.

> On May 16, 3:55 pm, ghachey <ghac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi;

>> I am trying to generate a printable report when saving objects for the
>> first time. This is easy enough except I can't easily access related
>> objects by overriding save() as they are not saved yet, nor are they
>> available within the save() method.

>> The new ModelAdmin.save_related() in Django 1.4 method seems to have
>> been created for just my need. The docs say: "Here you can do any pre-
>> or post-save operations for objects related to the parent. Note that
>> at this point the parent object and its form have already been saved."
>> From what I read this seems perfect for my use case.

>> I tried overriding the method as follows:

>> def save_related(self, request, form, formsets, change):

>>         if not change:
>>             # Generate and send report only if creating for first time
>>             parent_obj = form.instance
>>             import pdb; pdb.set_trace();

>> 1) At that point when I look into the database I don't see the saved
>> parent object? This seems to contradict the docs.
>> 2) I can access cleaned data from the formsets, but is there an easy
>> way to simply get the related instances as I would with
>> parent.child_set.all(). This would make my life much easier as I have
>> written the code already to print a LaTeX report from any Django model
>> (by looping _meta.fields approach).

>> I would appreciate any help.

>> --
>> GH

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