It tells me Column 'customer_id' cannot be null") because of the foreign key, customer_id is the id of the customer, that the Issues field is linked to. How do i auto fill in this field?
On Dec 20, 10:17 pm, Empty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not a very secure thing to do. But if you must, then just use > initial to set the value. > > Michael Trier > blog.michaeltrier.com > > On Dec 20, 2007 2:32 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, I am looking for a way to auto-populate a newforms field, I > > would like to have the input hidden, and be auto-populated with the > > name field of the Customer class the Issue class is a foreign key to > > the Customer class can anyone point me in the right direction, any > > help would be appreciated, should I use base_fields or is there a > > better way? > > > def add_edit_customer(request, id=None): > > if id is None: > > CustomerEntryForm = forms.form_for_model(Customer) > > else: > > IssueEntryForm = forms.form_for_model(Issue) > > entry = get_object_or_404(Customer, pk=id) > > issues = Issue.objects.filter(name=entry.name) > > CustomerEntryForm = forms.form_for_instance(entry) > > cust1 = Customer.objects.get(pk=id) > > issues = Issue.objects.filter(customer=cust1) > > IssueEntryForm.base_fields['customer'].widget = > > widgets.HiddenInput() > > IssueEntryForm.base_fields['customer'] = cust1.name --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
