here's the setup:

I have Satchmo products  installed here:

/django_apps/live/satchmo/products

I have another module installed here

/django_apps/live/elmago

I'm trying to add a dropbox field in products that is related to the
PK field in one of my elmago classes as follows:

    BinderCountry = models.ForeignKey('elmago.CountryOfOrigin',
verbose_name=_('Binder Country'), blank=False, null=False, help_text=_
("Please choose the country of origin for the binder."))

The elmago.CountryOfOrigin class looks like this:

class CountryOfOrigin (models.Model):
        Id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
        CountryName = models.CharField (max_length=250, blank=True,
db_index=True)
        DateAdded = models.DateTimeField (auto_now_add=True,
blank=False, db_index=True)

What am i doing wrong?  After restarting apache... i get the following
error:

AttributeError at /admin/product/product/add/

'str' object has no attribute '_default_manager'

On Nov 7, 8:39 pm, Bobby Roberts <tchend...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10405

but it's hard to be sure without the traceback.

As an aside, what you are doing sounds a bit dodgy.  If I understand what
you are saying, you are adding a field to the Satchmo-provided Product
model?  After doing that you mention restarting Apache but don't say
anything about getting the change you have made to the model reflected in
the database.  If you have not done anything to get the new field added to
the database table as well, then even if you get past this error you are
going to run into trouble when any code tries to access that model, since in
the database it won't have the field you have added.

Have you tried asking on the Satchmo user's group for guidance on
accomplishing whatever you are looking to do without modifying their
provided models?  In general changing the models provided by an external
project seems like a bad idea.