Re: Passing initial values to a form

The URL parameter (iid) is accessible in your view in self.kwargs["iid"].

You can pass it to the form by overriding your view's `get_initial` method (https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.6b2/django/views/generic/edit.py#L22)

`get_initial` should return a dict, and you should use:

{

    'name_of_the_model_field': self.kwargs["iid"]

}

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Drew Ferguson <drew@afccommercial.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

I have gotten myself badly confused today trying to figure this out.

If I have these elements

# urls.py
url(r'^banker/(?P<iid>\d+)/iac$', view = IacCreateView.as_view())

# views.py
class IacCreateView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
    template_name = 'iaccount_form.html'
    model = Iaccount
    form_class = IaccountForm

# forms.py
class IaccountForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta(object):
        model = Iaccount

How can I use a value (iid) from the url to set a field's initial
value in the form

or more generally pass initial values into the form from a previous page
--
Drew

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