Thanks for the help. On Jan 7, 3:01 pm, Mike Seidle <m...@seidle.net> wrote: > Hank - > > Here's the answer you are looking for: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield > > Here's an example: > > stuff = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Series.objects.values('whatever'), > empty_label=" ") > > Spend some serious time learning modelforms. Most of the time, they are the > right answer. Modelforms are different than regular forms... so you do have > to > populate the choices differently. The key with Django is to understand when > you need a modelform, and when you need a regular form. > > modelform - Django builds forms from models. > form - You design what you want, but have to do a lot more work to populate > the form with data. > > There you go. > > On Friday, January 07, 2011 02:03:39 pm hank23 wrote: > > > > > So I can create a queryset and pass its variable in the choices > > parameter to bind a modelchoicefield from a modelform to a particular > > iterable object? So then does this work only with modelforms or with > > any kind of form (one coded manually as well)? If I can do this with > > any form then where do I code the choices parameter? The only examples > > I've seen show it being coded using dictionaries containing hard-coded > > values and being coded as part of the form in question. Let me know > > as soon as you can. Thanks for the help.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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