I have a problem wherein no select field is prepopulated in any update form, or a create form where I provide some already filled fields.
I investigated this, and now I have no idea how this has ever worked : in http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/formfields.py#l114 the __getitem__ of formWrapper, it looks up the field_name eg if {{ form.something }} is used, it looks up a field called 'something' by its field_name member . Then it looks in the data dictionary (which is just the existing objects .__dict__) for an entry *of the same name* , field.field_name, eg 'something' . For any ForeignKey object, this is not going to exist, as the data will be called eg something_id. So how on earth does this work? Obviously I'm missing something as this works on the admin and on other peoples sites. On another note, I'm confused about how the directives like edit_inline=meta.TABULAR are supposed to interact with non-admin views. If edit_inline is true, that field will always be rendered as nothing by the FormWrapper. I assume the admin inserts some hidden inputs or something. How are non-admin views supposed to deal with this? Rob
