The issues model is a foreign key to my customer model.
On Dec 21, 10:40 pm, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply, I did as you suggested but when I save the
> form I get the error
>
> (1048, "Column 'customer_id' cannot be null") customer_id, being the
> 'id' field of the customer model,
>
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form1 = IssueEntryForm(request.POST)
> if form1.is_valid():
> form1.initial['customer'] = cust1
> form1.save()
> return HttpResponseRedirect('.')
> else:
> form = CustomerEntryForm()
> form1 = IssueEntryForm()
> form1.initial['customer'] = cust1
> return render_to_response('add_edit_customer.html', {'form':
> form,'issues':issues,'form1':form1})
>
> On Dec 21, 7:14 pm, rskm1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ahh! That helps. Sorry, I haven't ever used form_for_model() and
> > didn't recognize that IssueEntryForm in the original post was NOT a
> > form instance. Corrections embedded below.
>
> > On Dec 21, 8:48 am, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Sorry if I was unclean, I just discovered this and I am still learning
> > > newforms, I am using forms.form_for_model and trying to get two form
> > > to display in my template, only 1 is a foreign key that I used
> > > edit_inline with my model, I am trying to get the 'customer' field of
> > > my issue to be hidden and automatically be given the 'name' field of
> > > my customer model, when I did what you suggested I get the error
> > > below, my view is below, thx for the suggestion
>
> > > type object 'IssueForm' has no attribute 'initial'
>
> > > @staff_member_required
> > > def add_edit_customer(request, id=None):
> > > if id is None:
> > > CustomerEntryForm = forms.form_for_model(Customer)
> > > else:
> > > entry = get_object_or_404(Customer, pk=id)
> > > IssueEntryForm = forms.form_for_model(Issue,
> > > fields=('issue''customer'))
> > > 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.initial['customer'] = "Blah, Inc."
>
> > Sorry, my initial example was completely wrong; initial[] is part of
> > the form *instance*, not *class* (I'm a Python novice, so forgive me
> > if I botched the teminology there).
> > Remove that line and see correction below.
>
> > > if request.method == 'POST':
> > > form = CustomerEntryForm(request.POST)
> > > if form.is_valid():
> > > form.save()
> > > return HttpResponseRedirect('/customers')
> > > if request.method == 'POST':
> > > form1 = IssueEntryForm(request.POST)
> > > if form1.is_valid():
> > > form1 = form1.save(commit=False)
> > > form1.customer = entry.name
> > > form1.save()
> > > return HttpResponseRedirect('/customers/')
> > > else:
> > > form = CustomerEntryForm()
> > > form1 = IssueEntryForm()
>
> > Add here:
> > form1.initial['customer'] = "Blah, Inc."
>
> > Assuming your Issue model has a field named 'customer' (and it's a
> > text field), that will cause "Blah, Inc." to appear pre-filled-in when
> > the unbound form is rendered.
>
> > Taking a wild guess about your models, though, if the Issue model's
> > 'customer' field is actually a ForeignKey to a Customer object, change
> > that line to:
> > form1.initial['customer'] = cust1
>
> > (I'm getting a bit out of my depth here, but I think that should
> > work.)
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