<snipped Andres examples> Thanks Andres,
quite interesting. The way i solved it was based on parts of the wiki and loads of trial and error. I made a class that simplifies using custom Manipulators and then derived a specific class for adding a Patient (model i'm using) where i initialise the derived class by calling the init function of the standard add manipulator. Apparently a class variable default is initialised then and then you can adjust the values you like. It's quite elegant and seems a bit clearer (to me that is, eye of the beholder eh :)). urls.py ======= ... (r'^patient/ophalen/(?P<opnamenr>[-\w]+)/$','gema.main.views.patient_ophalen'), ... views.py ======== from gema.main.patient import PatientAddManipulator ... def patient_ophalen(request, opnamenr): manipulator = PatientAddManipulator() # Create the manipulator patient = manipulator.process(request) # Process the request if ( patient != None ): return render_to_response('main/patient_form.html', {'form': manipulator.form}) else: # Otherwise, redirect to the patient view page. return HttpResponseRedirect("/patient/lijst/") .. patient.py ========== from gema.main.models import Patient from django import forms ### Custom Manipulator ### class PatientCustom: def __bool__(self): return self.done def get_data(self, request): return request.POST def get_form(self, data, errors): return forms.FormWrapper(self, data, errors) def process(self, request): data = self.get_data(request) if data: new_data = data.copy() errors = self.get_validation_errors(new_data) if not errors: self.do_html2python(new_data) self.done = True return self.complete(request, new_data) else: errors = {} new_data = self.default self.form = self.get_form(new_data, errors) return self.form def complete(self, request, data): self.save(data) return None class PatientAddManipulator(Patient.AddManipulator, PatientCustom): default = {} done = False def __init__(self): # Construct the fields and set the values in default Patient.AddManipulator.__init__(self) PatientAddManipulator.default["voornaam"]="T" The patient_form.html contains a form with the correct fields and a piece of javascript to direct the user to the patient/ophalen/(?P<opnamenr> url. I used a piece of javascript to also add the number <opnamenr>. ========================== The last line of PatientAddManipulator is where the "magic" is for adding a default value. Here i override the firstname and just put in the letter T (ok silly but that's just to test things out :)). I have no idea if this is a good way of doing it but it works and it looks clean so i'm going with that :) Regards, Benedict --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---