Hey Guys,

I have a many-to-many relationship that creates a corresponding join table in our db.

It would be nice to be able to add records to the join table through the cms using the model admin. I don't think Model Admin natively supports this because when setting managed_models you cant simply input a db table name that doesn't have a corresponding DataObject. It shouldnt be too difficult to extend the model admin to solve this problem, but there's a few different ways it could be done. has anyone else done it in a particularly elegant fashion that they would like to share? :)

Cheers

used this one often (had issues with latest ie)...
http://www.silverstripe.org/multiselectfield-module/

haven't tried this one...
http://www.silverstripe.org/asm-multi-select-field-module/

Hi Nick,

I have two more:

ItemSetField, nice picker implementation for hasone, hasmany and manymany:
https://github.com/ajshort/silverstripe-itemsetfield

and of course the native implementation for managing ManyMany relations: ManyManyComplexTableField
http://api.silverstripe.org/2.4/forms/fields-relational/ManyManyComplexTableField.html
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/tutorials/5-dataobject-relationship-management#project-module-relation

Cheers

Cheers guys! We have quite a few instances of both the models in involved in the many-to-many so will check out the suggested plugins to help manage them.