Re: Django form show initial prepopulate on edit

Hi,

Yes, because i use appengine, so django model not supported.

Btw i fixed the problem , by using {{ postForm.category }} instead,
and put the css class by define

category = forms.CharField(widget =
forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'somecssclass'}) instead of wrote it
in html.

Thanks.

On Oct 28, 12:26 am, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Oct 27, 3:25 pm, Hudar <hudars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Just wondering, how we could show initial value on the edit form. Let
> > say we have code like this to retrive the data ;
>
> > if request.method == 'GET':
> >     post = models.Post.get_by_key_name(key_name)
> >     editPostForm = postform.PostForm(initial={
> >                           'title': post.title,
> >                           'body': post.body,
> >                           'category': post.category,
> >                           'tags': ' '.join(post.tags)})
>
> >     return render_to_response('admin/newpost.html', {
> >                              'postForm':editPostForm,
> >                              'action':post.get_edit_url(),})
>
> > but when i code the form like this :
> > <input id="id_category" class="textInput" type="text" size="50"
> > name="category" max_length="30"
> > value="{% if postForm.category.data %}{{ postForm.category.data }}{%
> > endif %}">
>
> > it doesnt show up the initial category in the textfield. Please help,
> > thanks
>
> You probably need to use post.category.id in your initial dictionary.
>
> However, you would be better off using a ModelForm, and passing
> 'instance' rather than 'initial'.
> --
> DR.

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