On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Milan Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:22 AM, d-rave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone successfully got formtools.preview working with
>> forms.ModelForm so that the form fields are populated from the model.
>>
>> If so, do you have an example??
>
> Dave, I'm not familiar with formtools but if all you want to do is
> prepopulate a form then you can use the initial={} keyword arg. This
> probably doesn't help but ... you could do this in your view if you
> want:
>
> form = Form(initial={'user':u, ...})
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/#dynamic-initial-values
>
Another trick is to use model_to_dict to pass in initial values :
from django.newforms.models import model_to_dict
...
f = Form( initial=model_to_dict(obj) )
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Milan
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