On Monday, 8 August 2011 13:06:51 UTC+1, Kayode Odeyemi wrote:
>
> That didn't help either. It still did not depict what I'm trying to do.
> Those filters are for retrieving values set by a user. However, I tried the
> code below which is to hard code the choices into the form field on creation
>
> class TransactionUpdateForm(forms.ModelForm):
> branch_name_new = forms.models.CharField(required=True,
> widget=forms.Select(choices={'BR_CODE1': 'HQ','BR_CODE2': 'Branch 2'}))
> class Meta:
> model = Transaction
> fields = ('branch_name')
> widgets = {
> 'branch_name_new': Select(choices={'BR_CODE1': 'HQ': 'Branch
> 2'}),
> }
>
> In the template, I did an output like this: {{form.branch_name_new}}.
> Nothing gets displayed.
>
> How does Django handle this literally. I have read the docs insideout and
> tried stuffs out as written, but nothing seem to work. Has anyone done this
> sort of stuff before - I mean this is meant to be basic stuff. I don't want
> to have to manually create HTML markups in the template, because I will be
> needing those Select field values coming from the db.
>
> Thanks
>
>
I'm afraid it's really not clear what you're trying to do, or what the
problem is.
If the issue is that you have a field referring to a foreign key, and you
want to change what the values displayed in the dropdown for that field,
then you simply need to redefine the `__unicode__` method for the related
model, as documented
here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield
An alternative, also documented at that link, is to subclass
ModelChoiceField and override label_from_instance.
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