Re: Passing initial values to a form

Perfect, thanks

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:44:07 +0200
Thomas Orozco <thomas@orozco.fr> wrote:

> 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
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