django-multiselectfield

A new model and form field. With this you can get a multiple select from a choices

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Installation

In your models.py

from multiselectfield import MultiSelectField

...

MY_CHOICES = (('item_key1', 'Item title 1.1'),
              ('item_key2', 'Item title 1.2'),
              ('item_key3', 'Item title 1.3'),
              ('item_key4', 'Item title 1.4'),
              ('item_key5', 'Item title 1.5'))

MY_CHOICES2 = ((1, 'Item title 2.1'),
               (2, 'Item title 2.2'),
               (3, 'Item title 2.3'),
               (4, 'Item title 2.4'),
               (5, 'Item title 2.5'))

class MyModel(models.Model):

    .....

    my_field = MultiSelectField(choices=MY_CHOICES)
    my_field2 = MultiSelectField(choices=MY_CHOICES2,
                                 max_choices=3,
                                 max_length=3)

In your settings.py

Only you need it, if you want the translation of django-multiselectfield

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',

    #.....................#

    'multiselectfield',
)

Development

You can get the last bleeding edge version of django-multiselectfield by doing a clone of its git repository:

git clone https://github.com/goinnn/django-multiselectfield

Example project

In the source tree, you will find a directory called example. It contains a readily setup project that uses django-multiselectfield. You can run it as usual:

python manage.py syncdb --noinput
python manage.py runserver