Thanks for the help. I'll modify my code accordingly. On Jan 14, 6:27 am, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > On Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:30:56 PM UTC, hank23 wrote: > > > I have a screen which displays just fine the first time in, however > > when I knowingly submit the page without entering data in all of the > > fields to cause an error the page loses some of the data and controls. > > I'm sure my view code is probably missing something just not sure at > > this point what exactly is missing. So far my view is coded according > > to the example given in the document at > >http://docs.djangoprojects.com/en/1.2/topics/forms/. > > The example though does not seem to clearly indicate what should be > > sent back to the screen in the case of errors. Below is my addchoice > > view which is the one in question: > > > <snip> > > > I would appreciate any suggestions for how to correc the code or links > > to one or more complete screen error processing view code. Thanks for > > the help. > > You need to think about the path through the code that happens when > request.method is POST, but the form is not valid. In that case, in your > current code, dctnry is empty, so does not pass the form back to the > template. > > Since you want to modify the contents of dctnry when the form is saved, I > would do it like this: > > dctnry = {'infomessage': message} > > if request.method == "POST": > form = AddChoiceForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): > poll = form.cleaned_data['pollquestions'] > slctdchoice = form.cleaned_data['newchoice'] > if poll: > newchoice = Choice(poll=poll.id, > choice=slctdchoice, votes=0) > newchoice.save() > confirmmessage = "Choice: %s has been saved for poll: %s" % > (slctdchoice, pollid) > dctnry['confirmmessage'] = confirmmessage > > else: > form = AddChoiceForm() > > dctnry['form'] = form > return render_to_response('polls/addchoice.html' dctnry, > context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > which ensures that the form is always added to the context, no matter where > it is instantiated. > -- > DR.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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