Hello,

Here's my issue;

Dog has_one Pedigree
Dog belongs_many_many Pedigrees //A dog is the parent or grandparent of an other dog so belongs in a pedigree

Pedigree has_many Dogs //One pedigree can be for several dogs, like from one litter
Pedigree many_many Dogs //the pedigree has many dogs, Parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents

I manage my dogs with modeladmin, but the above relations give me time_out errors. I guess the problem lies in the fact that i create a loop. Edit a dog, create a pedigree that could hold the same dog i'm editing

Isn't this possible ?

Swaiba,

Tx for the reply.

I 'solved' it in an other way.
I want to live by the D.R.Y. rule, so i want each Dog to exists only once in my DB.

Dog has_one Pedigree

Dog belongs_many_many Fathers,Mothers,GrandFathers...etc

Pedigree has_many Dogs

Pedigree has_one Father ,Mother,GrandFather....etc

Father many_many Dogs
Father has_many Pedigrees
{ same goes for Mother, GrandFather etc.}

Now i can create a pedigree by using dropdownfields for Father, Mother etc.
There are a lot of DO's, but that's no problem ( yet)

EDIT;
Asked a stupid question about the filter on a Dataobject::get ...
Sorry about that, that's kinda basic...even for me ;)

Stupid me

I never created the link from Dog to Father or Mother...That would imply that i have, on each dog, several Tabs/fields where i have to assign the Dog to a father, mother etc....That's not an option.

Swaiba, if your still following this post...

Could you explain your solution with the DataObjectNameID ?

I think i need to go this way...

My pedigree has fields that are named ; Father, Mother, Grandfather etc.
I need to populate these fields with Dogs, so my Father gets a DogID, Mother gets a DogID etc.

how do i setup my Pedigree.php?
static $db= array('Father'=> ????)

Okay, let's take it to the beginning please.

I attached a screenshot ( with a little editing ) from my ModelAdmin. This is how it looks now ( Thanks Swaiba for the Literalfield explanations ).

As you can see, this is how a Pedigree looks like. Now, i need to choose a Dog ( DataObject 'Dog' ) in every DropDown .
The funny part is, that i actually CAN choose a Dog in every field ( i use DataObject::get('Dog') for every Dropdown, so that makes sence.)

But it never saves it to any table....

I've made a DO for every subject.

Father has_one Dog
Mother has_one Dog etc.

Dog has_many Fathers etc....

Pedigree has_one Father etc.

But then i have to manage all these DO seperate, when all i want is some kind of 'link' from Pedigree->Father Field-> Dog

So i guess my real question ( for now ;) ) is...;

How do i populate the different DropDownFields with the same DO , and save it to 'what table' ?

If anyone can help out...well...THANK U