On Dec 10, 7:24 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You say you excluded 'product' from the form but the code you posted has not > excluded 'product', it has excluded 'parent' and 'usePrice'.
Ahem....[hides under a rock in shame]...I guess copy/paste got me there. > Also, the technique you are using of creating the ModelForm with an instance > parameter so as to provide values for fields that are excluded from the form > (as described > here:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#using-a...) > is to avoid errors during model save, not form validation. This data is not > used during form validation (after all it's for supplying values for the > model instance for fields excluded from the form -- so the form knows > nothing of these fields and won't attempt to validate them. You seem to be > confusing two separate things here -- what's a required field on the form > and what's required when saving an instance to the DB. Very valuable insight. Thanks. I indeed confused the two, but the real problem was of course that I was excluding the wrong formfield. :( Thanks, 2B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
