Searching across two models

[Andy Byers]

class Article(models.Model):

        title = models.CharField(max_length=300)

article_id = models.IntegerField()

date_submitted = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, help_text="article.date_submitted")

date_published = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, help_text="published_articles.date_published")

date_accepted = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, help_text="calculated field, based on editor decisions")

date_rejected = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, help_text="calculated field, based on editor decisions")

class Author(models.Model):

"authors attached to an article"

article = models.ForeignKey(Article)

primary_contact = models.BooleanField(default=False)

seq = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField()

first_name = models.CharField(max_length=150)

middle_name = models.CharField(max_length=150, null=True, blank=True)

last_name = models.CharField(max_length=150)

country_code = models.CharField(max_length=255, null=True, blank=True)

email = models.CharField(max_length=320, null=True, blank=True)

url = models.CharField(max_length=320, null=True, blank=True)

affiliation = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)

Is there a way to get a search on article to also look at the author table?

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi Andy, 

What you need is here: https://github.com/etianen/django-watson/wiki/Searching-models#searching-for-a-subset-of-your-registered-models

It'll be something like: 

    watson.search("Search terms", models=(Article,Author,))