Figured it out.
Just like Kenneth said above, I need a super line where he said. I
was also appending the values incorrectly. It should have been
GROUP_CHOICES += ((g.id, g.name),)
Thanks for the help everyone.
On Jan 12, 11:14 am, ocgstyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great. That works. Only problem now, though, is that GROUP_CHOICES
> is still [] after the object is instantiated. From a shell I can do
> this:
>
> f = ReferralForm(User.objects.get(username='keith'))
> f.fields['field1'].choices = f.GROUP_CHOICES
>
> And that will populate the field with the right data. How do I do
> this in the class itself?
>
> Keith
>
> On Jan 12, 6:25 am, shabda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Instead of this
> > def __init__(self, user):
> > profile = user.get_profile()
>
> > for g in profile.groups.all():
> > self.GROUP_CHOICES += (g.id, g.name)
>
> > super(MyForm, self)
>
> > Should it not be,
> > def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
> > profile = user.get_profile()
>
> > for g in profile.groups.all():
> > self.GROUP_CHOICES += (g.id, g.name)
>
> > super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>
> > On Jan 12, 2:18 pm, ocgstyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I using the newforms library to create a form. I need to know who the
> > > current user is so I know which values to display in a dropdown
> > > control. So I have this so far:
>
> > > from django import newforms as forms
>
> > > class MyForm(forms.Form):
> > > GROUP_CHOICES = []
>
> > > field1 = forms.ChoiceField(choices=GROUP_CHOICES)
> > > field2 = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea())
>
> > > def __init__(self, user):
> > > profile = user.get_profile()
>
> > > for g in profile.groups.all():
> > > self.GROUP_CHOICES += (g.id, g.name)
>
> > > super(MyForm, self)
>
> > > But when I try to render this in the template
> > > ( {{ form.as_table }} ), I get no output. Am I creating this form
> > > class incorrectly?
>
> > > Keith
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