Holy sh#*T, it worked!! Thanks man 2 WHOLE DAYS stuck on this. So shocked to
actually see the box checked!
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From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:32 PM
To: <django-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: setting the checkboxes (MultipleChoiceField problem)
>
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 21:20 -0600, Tolu wrote:
>> lol I had originally tried that too. Nothing seems to work! I am thinking
>> my
>> logic might be wrong from the start.
>
> Sorry, I was too fast in my last reply and missed a second error in your
> line. Should have read more closely.
> [...]
>> > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 20:29 -0600, Tolu wrote:
>> >> I tried this. The checkboxes displayed but none of them were checked:
>> >>
>> >> LOOKING_FOR = (
>> >> ('Friendship', 'Friendship'),
>> >> ('Dating', 'Dating'),
>> >> ('A Relationship', 'A Relationship'),
>> >> ('Networking', 'Networking'),
>> >> )
>> >>
>> >> class ProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
>> >> lookingfor = forms.MultipleChoiceField(required=False,
>> >> label='Looking
>> >> For', widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple, choices=LOOKING_FOR,
>> >> initial=
>> >> {"lookingfor": [1,2,3]})
>> >
>
> You are specifying the initial values for the form field. So you don't
> need to (and should not) pass in a dictionary. You only pass in the
> initial values. So something like
>
> initial = ['Friendship', 'Networking']
>
> in the field definition will work (and this time, I actually tested it
> to make sure!).
>
> The dictionary is only used when passing initial values into the Form
> class, since that initial value data structure has to apply to multiple
> fields at once. Thus:
>
> p_form = ProfileForm(initial={"lookingfor": ['Friendship']})
>
> would set the initial value for the lookingfor field (and override any
> initial value you specified in the field when you defined the form).
>
> Hopefully that clears up the confusion. For a field, pass in only the
> value. For initial values passed to the form constructor, pass in the
> dictionary.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
>
> >
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