Re: Django form show initial prepopulate on edit

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'.
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DR.

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