That would just be short_name = "something", what you are doing is
creating an object, however you aren't saving it to the database, you
are just using it to pre-populate info to a model form.
On Jan 28, 4:19 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello that's what I wanted but it doesn't work
> ('prepopulate_short_name' is an invalid keyword argument for this
> function)
>
> I have
> player_create_name = request.GET.get('name')
> tplayer = Player(prepopulate_short_name=player_create_name)
> playerForm = CreatePlayerForm(instance=tplayer)
>
> models:
> class Player(models.Model):
> short_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)
> complete_name = models.CharField(max_length=250, db_index=True)
> ...
>
> Can you please help me?
>
> Luis
>
> On Jan 28, 10:09 pm, "Vance Dubberly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If I get what you are asking correctly, you are trying to pre-populate
> > some fields in a form without printing out the validation errors that
> > occur from not having all the fields populated?
>
> > If so this should help:
>
> > # create object instance with pre-populated data
> > obj_instance = Object(prepoulate_field_key="value")
>
> > #create from with obj_instance
> > obj_form = ObjectForm(instance=obj_instance)
>
> > It's not obvious or in the docs, but it's a nice mechanism.
>
> > Hope that helps.
>
> > vance
>
> > On Jan 28, 2008 9:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
>
> > > I have a view with searches for a given record (using a text field).
> > > If the object does not exist show a error and a link: <a href="/
> > > create/?val=value%20%not%20found">Create</a>
>
> > > On the create view if GET.get('val') then I put that data in the form.
> > > I want this just to make it simple for a user to enter a new object if
> > > it does not exist.
>
> > > My problem if that django validates the form with the data I added, so
> > > I get several fields with have the "not provided value" (since I did
> > > not pass that data)
>
> > > How can I make this work? Is there some flag to tell django not
> > > validate the form when I'm first creating it?
>
> > > Regards,
>
> > > Luis
>
> > --
> > To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to
> > pretend.
> > - Jacques Derrida
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