[1.2.X] Fixed #14905 -- Corrected some misleading linking and language in the FileField docs. Thanks to Keryn Knight for the report and draft patch.

Backport of [15088] from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@15089 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
index 99d9b29830..69394480d7 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
@@ -546,10 +546,17 @@ four-digit year, ``'%m'`` is the two-digit month and ``'%d'`` is the two-digit
 day. If you upload a file on Jan. 15, 2007, it will be saved in the directory
 ``/home/media/photos/2007/01/15``.
 
-If you want to retrieve the upload file's on-disk filename, or a URL that refers
-to that file, or the file's size, you can use the
-:attr:`~django.core.files.File.name`, :attr:`~django.core.files.File.url`
-and :attr:`~django.core.files.File.size` attributes; see :doc:`/topics/files`.
+If you wanted to retrieve the uploaded file's on-disk filename, or the file's
+size, you could use the :attr:`~django.core.files.File.name` and
+:attr:`~django.core.files.File.size` attributes respectively; for more 
+information on the available attributes and methods, see the
+:class:`~django.core.files.File` class reference and the :doc:`/topics/files`
+topic guide.
+
+The uploaded file's relative URL can be obtained using the
+:attr:`~django.db.models.fields.FileField.url` attribute. Internally,
+this calls the :meth:`~django.core.files.storage.Storage.url` method of the
+underlying :class:`~django.core.files.storage.Storage` class.
 
 Note that whenever you deal with uploaded files, you should pay close attention
 to where you're uploading them and what type of files they are, to avoid