Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

Hi Sergiy, Thanks for your help! 1) I tried overriding the GET request as you suggested and the print statement never went through. It looks like by default it calls `get_object()`, and my `get_object()` code is running, so I'm not sure why it doesn't appear. 2) The form is appearing with the

Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

Hi Sergiy, Thanks for your help! 1) I tried overriding the GET request as you suggested and the print statement never went through. It looks like by default it calls `get_object()`, and my `get_object()` code is running, so I'm not sure why it doesn't appear. 2) The form is appearing with the

Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

Hello, I had a similar problem (but I'm using DetailView for sending some additional data) and I hope I can help Usually editing page is using GET for receiving default data and POST for sending data from form to view ( we are skipping ajax way) 1) You would like to set initial data to

Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

On Wednesday 18 January 2017 14:26:52 Benjamin Dauer wrote: > Hi Melvyn, > > That's exactly what I'm trying to do, but prior to making the changes > it wasn't prepopulating. At each stage I tested and was getting blank > fields albeit based off of the correct model. > > Maybe it's because I

Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

Hi Melvyn, That's exactly what I'm trying to do, but prior to making the changes it wasn't prepopulating. At each stage I tested and was getting blank fields albeit based off of the correct model. Maybe it's because I don't provide the pk in the URL? I was trying to avoid that. On Wed, Jan 18,

Re: prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

On Wednesday 18 January 2017 04:44:01 dauer.benjamin wrote: > Question for you all. Appreciate any insight you can give. So I have a > class-based view (UpdateView) and a ModelForm. I want the form to > pre-populate with data from a model instance. It feels like you're doing work that's already

prepopulate form with model instance values using UpdateView and ModelForm

Hey folks, Question for you all. Appreciate any insight you can give. So I have a class-based view (UpdateView) and a ModelForm. I want the form to pre-populate with data from a model instance. I've googled around a lot, couldn't find a plug n' play solution. I have a partial solution but it

Re: Prepopulate form from URL?

Thank you so much to both of you! I was looking at the wrong documentation lol kudos! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Prepopulate form from URL?

You should be able to do it via foo_value = request.GET['foo']. PS: The above should work for a post like /?foo=bar On Mar 18, 4:06 pm, Jorge Romo wrote: > Hello! > > I was trying to see if there's a way (I'm pretty sure there is a way) > to prepopulate a form field

Re: Prepopulate form from URL?

Hi. When you setup urls, they can have dynamic parts in them, so you dont need to use ?=, but could have an url foo/bar where your url would grab the bar and turn it into a variable. Fx if you had an url like this in your urls.py: (r'^foo/(?P\w+)/$', 'my_view_name') bar would become my_var, that

Prepopulate form from URL?

Hello! I was trying to see if there's a way (I'm pretty sure there is a way) to prepopulate a form field from an url. For example: /foo?=bar and that in my form field "bar" is displayed. I have to work with java? there is another way? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Prepopulate Form

On 10/29/06, shidan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I want the same functionality as the ChangeManipulator where it > prepopulates the form with > the current values of the object, how can I do this with custom form > manipulator. Add flatten_data to it and call if when initializing

Prepopulate Form

Hi, I want the same functionality as the ChangeManipulator where it prepopulates the form with the current values of the object, how can I do this with custom form manipulator. Shidan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are