Shawn, Ondrey,
Thanks for your answers. I ended up using to ModelForm and ModelFormSet.
Cheers,
Adrian
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 16:12, ondrey <ondrej.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if the form is bound (i.e. form.is_bound is true) then you can access
> its data attribute, which contains the data entered into the form.
> If the form is valid (i.e. form.is_valid() is true), then you can
> access the cleaned_data attributes as well.
>
> So for example if you have form like this:
> f = MyForm({ "last_name": "some_value"})
>
> you can access the value in template in this way
> {{ f.data.last_name }}
>
> or alternatively, if your form is valid you can use:
> {{ f.cleaned_data.last_name }}
>
> Just bear in mind, that the two values can be different since
> cleaned_data the result of some processing in the validation methods.
>
>
> hope it helps,
>
> -Ondrej Bohm
>
> On Jan 17, 7:35 pm, adrian_m <adrian.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > How can I access the value of a form field in the template ? I'm
> > having
> > two different use cases :
> > - display a field value as simple text (the field is not meant to be
> > edited
> > by the user, therefore i don't want to use a input field)
> > - use the field value for generating a link
> > ( something like this: <a href="{% url cmds.views.details
> > form.cmd_id.value %}">Details</a> )
> >
> > It would have been nice to have an attribute
> > {{form.field_name.value}}
> > which would return the value instead of a widget.Unfortunately there
> > seems
> > to be no such attribute available.
> >
> > I have looked at the Field attributes and also at the list of
> > available widgets,
> > but none seems to do what I need : simply display the value as raw
> > text
> > instead of generating input field / textarea / etc. I guess that my
> > use cases
> > are frequent enough, so there must be some simple way to do it ...
> >
> > (if it makes any difference: i am actually trying to use a forms set,
> > and
> > in each of the forms i want to create "details" and "delete" links
> > using
> > the id of the current record).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any tips,
> > Adrian
>
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