I concur with Oliver.
Obviously if your dynamic user_name is a variable, it would look like
this:
form=MyForm(initial={'user_name':user_name})
And of course, this is written in the view.
On May 12, 2:41 pm, oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do it like this:
>
> def frommagic(request):
> if request.POST:
> process form
> else:
> from = MyForm(initial={'user_name': 'John Doe' })
>
> works well in our quite complex 6 step booking form ..
>
> On May 12, 9:37 pm, Mike Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a project where I need to dynamically set the default values for
> > a form field. I have come up with the following solution, but wanted to
> > check here to see if anyone saw any problems with it:
>
> > ----MyForm----
> > class MyForm(forms.Form):
> > user_name = forms.CharField(min_length=1, max_length=60)
>
> > def set_initial(self, property, value):
> > self.fields[property].initial = value
> > #end set_initial
> > --------------
>
> > form = MyForm()
> > form.set_initial('user_name', "John Doe")
>
> > -------
>
> > Anyone see any issues with that approach? Or am I missing something
> > already built in?
>
> > mike chambers
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