I am pretty new to Django - new enough to be developing my first Django app on 1.3. So, I am basing all my work on class-based generic views, and have never used the older generic view functions.
A problem I have is the lack of examples and documentation on the new class-based generic views. My current problem is that I am trying to build some forms based on models. I am not using Django Forms (ModelForm), but rather CreateView. CreateView gets me almost there, but I can't find any documentation on (1) how to exclude fields, and (2) how to fix a value for a field. My class is like so: class CreateCampaignView(CreateView): model = Campaign template_name = "forms/create.html" I tried exclude from ModelForms, like this: class CreateCampaignView(UserAccountCreateView): model = Campaign template_name = "forms/create.html" exclude = ('user', 'name', 'content_inlined') and that doesn't work. Is there another way to exclude fields using CreateView? and, one of my excluded fields, "user", also needs to get the value of self.request.user I tried again here to apply the docs from ModelForms here for CreateView, but it doesn't work. Some might suggest I use Django Forms - it is a reasonable suggestion of course. But, being new, I don't have any "view legacy" and I just like the idea of working with class-based generic views where possible. thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/g4ADYoJAbE0J. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.