That's a valid consideration, but yes, if I enabled that field to be
populated based on another field, I would expect it to change regardless of
it was a add form or a change form.  The attribute doesn't read
"sometimes_prepopulate_fields".  Nor does it read
"always_prepopulate_fields" for that matter.  But the lack of clarity seems
to suggest always...

keith


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Carl Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 9:27 pm, "Keith Eberle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yea... I didn't know for sure, but I thought it used to.  That's why I
> > asked.  I wonder why that functionality wasn't there by default...
>
> Because in many cases it would be a usability problem.  What if you've
> manually adjusted the slug - do you really want your manual changes
> automatically erased anytime you touch the prepopulate_from field?
>
> If you really want a fully-automatic, non-editable slug field,
> consider doing it on the server side with one of the many snippets on
> djangosnippets.org.
>
> Carl
> >
>

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