Re: User Profile and Form initial values

On 04/26/2011 06:04 PM, Kenny Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Shawn Milochik<shawn@milochik.com> wrote:
>> If you're creating a ModelForm that already has data in the database, don't
>> pass in request.POST. Instead, pass in the instance with the 'instance'
>> keyword argument.
>>
>> For example, if it was a ModelForm for the User object: form =
>> UserForm(instance = request.user)
> Thanks, I had the same question and passing an instance worked fine
> for me. Isn't this documented somewhere?
>

You know, I assume it must be documented because I know it. However, I
was unable to find it by doing a quick search of the docs. Maybe I read
it in a book.

I'll do a little more looking for it and if I don't find it I'll open a
ticket to improve the documentation. It'll be an easy ticket to work on.

Shawn

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