Question

I was building a django model that has two fields, only one of them is required.

class course_data(models.Model):
    link = models.CharField(max_length = 500, null = True, blank = True)
    uploaded_file = models.FileField(upload_to='course_files', null = True, blank = True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length = 200, null = True, blank = True)
    description = models.TextField(null = True, blank = True)    
    applies_to = models.ManyToManyField('course') 

I want the entry to be valid only if the “link” field is provided or if the ‘uploaded_file’ field is provided or both. I can’t make both parameters optional since they can be both left blank. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use a ModelForm and override its clean method to get the behaviour you want. If you want to use the admin, you can add the custom behaviour with a ModelAdmin