Niall Kelly wrote: > Ah I was looking for a way of specifying the initial values for the form > field (so they would have selected="selected" in the HTML) rather than > the options to pick from. Similar to how you would set the initial text > for an unbound CharField in a form.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/formsets/#using-initial-data-with-a-formset Seems to cover it. I was doing this myself last week. So as well as the QuerySet for your choices, you just provide initial for the default selected item. Hope that helps.. > > Niall > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Pass a tuple with the choices to your model >> >> blah_choices = (('One', '1'),('two','2')) >> >> blahs = models.CharField(_(u'blah'), blank=True, null=True, >> max_length=64, choices=blah_choice, default='blah') >> >> J >> On Dec 8, 5:16 pm, Niall Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Does anybody know how to set initial values for MultipleChoiceFields >>> (akin to how in the admin interface ManyTo* relationships have a select >>> box)? I've tried setting it's it to a list of values or individual value >>> but no luck. This is part of a formset so the initial values are >>> dictionaries. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Niall >>> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
