Re: Using custom forms with generic views

[Ian Holsman]

another alternative you may want to consider is to piggybak ontop of  the generic view have a look at http://svn.zyons.python-hosting.com/trunk/zilbo/common/utils/views/create_update.py for a example which adds a 'change_user' and 'last_change' fields eg.     if request.POST:         new_data = request.POST.copy()         now = datetime.datetime.today()         new_data['last_change_user_id'] = str(request.user.id)         new_data['last_change_user'] = new_data['last_change_user_id']         new_data['last_change_date'] = now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')         new_data['last_change_time'] = now.strftime('%H:%M:%S')         new_data['create_user_id'] = new_data['last_change_user_id']         new_data['create_user'] = new_data['last_change_user_id']         new_data['creation_date_date'] = now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')         new_data['creation_date_time'] = now.strftime('%H:%M:%S')         request._post = new_data     return create_object(request,                   model,                   template_name,                  template_loader, extra_context,                  post_save_redirect, login_required, follow) so in your case I would handle the 'tag' field here, and split it into multiple fields which the normal changemanipulator can handle. and it uses all the goodness of the generic update, without me having to duplicate the code. regards Ian On 08/08/2006, at 2:45 AM, jeffmikels wrote: Thanks for your help. I ended up creating a view to do the work. If the data is simple enough and just plain text, is there a compelling reason to use AddManipulator or other manipulators instead of just object.save()? -- Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://peopleintopoker.com/ -- where the poker people go --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---