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    <p>Im trying to connect a "Information" object to many "Customers" (see code below)</p> <p>When one Information object is updated, I want to send email to each Customer that is connected to the Information.</p> <p>However, when I log the sold_to field that the signal recieves I always get what the data is like BEFORE the save.</p> <p>I'm guessing this is because its ManyToManyField and the data is stored in a separate table, but shouldn't the post_save signal be called after all relations have been updated?</p> <p>Anyone got a suggestion for a solution?</p> <pre><code>class Customer name = models.CharField(max_length=200) category = models.ManyToManyField('Category',symmetrical=False) contact = models.EmailField() class Information name = models.CharField(max_length=200) email = models.EmailField(max_length=200) mod_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) sold_to = models.ManyToManyField(Customer, null=True, blank=True) def send_admin_email(sender, instance, signal, *args, **kwargs): from myapp import settings for cust in instance.sold_to.all(): settings.debug(cust.name) post_save.connect(send_admin_email, sender=Information) </code></pre> <p>Edit: apollo13 in #django alerted me to this: "Related items (the things being saved into the many-to-many relation) are not saved as part of a model's save method, as you have discovered." - <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/2b734c153537f970" rel="noreferrer">http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/2b734c153537f970</a></p> <p>But since its from Jul 9 2006 I really really hope there is a solution for this.</p>
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