On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 01:32 -0800, shabda wrote:
> I have a form, to which I want to pass some data when it is first
> dipalyed,
> My form is,
> class EditPage(forms.Form):
> text = forms.CharField(widget = forms.Textarea)
> edit_summary = forms.CharField()
>
> In my view I bind data to this form as
> if request.method == 'GET':
> page = Page.objects.get(slug = slug)
> edit_form = forms.EditPage({'text':page.current_revision.wiki_text})
>
> Since this is a edit page, we need to display the previous data, but
> the edit_summary field must be empty. However as soon as I bind any
> thing to the form the validation fires and so in the template errors
> are displayed, as form.errors is not empty. We can not se form.errors,
> as that field is Immultable. SO how do I add data to the form when it
> is first displayed?
You need to use the "initial" parameter for supplying initial data. See
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/#initial for the
details.
Regards,
Malcolm
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