Hi, if you use ModelForm, the data from the database are the initial form data.
If you create a new record with ModelForm, you could use the "initial" parameter to supply some default values. More can be found in the docs. Thomas Magnus Valle schrieb: > Short: > How do I populate a form with data from the database? > Fx. if I want to let users edit the data they have entered. > > Long: > Currently, I have a form where the user(if logged in) will enter data > and when it is submitted some extra data is entered to the form before > it is saved, a time-stamp and the request.user . > > But is there a way to open the form, looking to see if the user already > has entered some data, then populate the form with that data. But if the > user does not have a entry in the database, then presenting an empty form. ? -- Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
