On 10/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) {{form.teacher}} doesn't render the actual teacher assigned to that > course but just the first in the list of teachers. >
I'm guessing here since I don't have open any project to test it on, but I suspect that is because you are initializing your form data with this: new_data = dict(code=course.code, name=course.name, description=course.description, teacher=course.teacher, assistant=course.assistant) which makes new_data['teacher'] contain a teacher object when you actually only need a value. You could change that to: teacher=str(course.teacher.id) Another thing, maybe you are doing more things that you didn't included in the pasted code, but I don't see any need for a custom manipulator there, and I would suggest you to use the default generated manipulators. Your code could be more simpler, like this: def course_edit(request, course_id): try: manipulator = Course.ChangeManipulator(course_id) except: raise Http404 course = manipulator.original_object new_data = {} errors = {} if request.POST: new_data = request.POST.copy() errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data) if not errors: manipulator.do_html2python(new_data) manipulator.save(new_data) return HttpResponseRedirect("/course_edit/%s" % course_id) else: new_data = manipulator.flatten_data() form = forms.FormWrapper(manipulator, new_data, errors) return render_to_response("course.html", {'form'=form}) > 2) In the manipulator save() method i have to refer to model fields > with course.teacher_id. Shouldn't i be able to just do course.teacher > without instantiating a teacher object? > No, course.teacher must be a Teacher object. And since you are using a custom manipulator, you'll need to fetch that object in the save() method. Or, as you already noted, you can use course.teacher_id and assign it a valid id. Cheers, Jorge --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---