On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 18:16 -0800, Atishay wrote: > Hello All > > Due to some production environment related issues, I am not able to > upgrade to 1.02 to get formsets. > > I am able to create list of forms to emulate formset as suggested on > http://collingrady.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/editing-multiple-objects-in-django-with-newforms/ > > However, I need something like this > a) A form has few fields and there are five such foms. > b) User just needs to fill in one or more forms. > > If I try to bound all the forms using request.POST, it will raise > validation errors on the forms that have not been filled by the user > [ which is actually okay ] > > my code in views.py > > def submitsession(request): > if request.method == 'POST': > #do something > papers=[PaperInfo(request.POST,prefix=str(x)) for x in range > (0,3)] > #So even if papers[0] is correct and user has left papers[1] > and papers[2] form empty, forms would NOT validate and User will be > displayed error > else: > #do something > papers=[PaperInfo(prefix=str(x)) for x in range (0,3)] > return render_to_response('submitsession.html',{'paper1':papers > [0],'paper2':papers[1],'paper3':papers[2]}) > > Question 1: How can i achieve the functionality that the any form > should either if filled of left blank ?
There are at least two approaches to this: If a form field isn't required, it could be specified with "required=False". You will have to create your forms appropriately. You will also need to check forms to see if the user has filled in some fields (in which they will have to fill in all the fields that are required) or no fields (in which case, they have left the entire form blank). The second approach is to check the POST data to work out which forms have any data at all submitted (by looking at the prefix strings on the POST.keys() values, for example). Then only pass request.POST to those forms for validation. That way you can use "required" to indicate truly required fields. > Question 2: i have to pass the list as papers[0] and so on to > render_to_response .. I tried to pass it as papers and access it as > papers[0].as_table in the template but it did not work? papers[0].as_table is a function reference. You want to pass a form reference (papers[0]). Or you could just in a list (papers) and iterate over it in the template. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
