On May 9, 1:24 pm, zayatzz <alan.kesselm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've been trying to figure out how to use modelforms and so far ive
> managed to do things on my own. But now im trying to prepopluate
> modelform and it does not work - not completely anyway.
>
> Model:
> from django.db import models
> from tinymce import models as tinymce_models
>
> class article(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> content = tinymce_models.HTMLField()
>
> Form:
> from django.db import models
> from django import forms
> from mce.arts.models import article
> from tinymce.widgets import TinyMCE
> from django.forms import ModelForm
>
> class articleForm(ModelForm):
> content = forms.CharField(widget=TinyMCE(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows':
> 30}))
> class Meta:
> model = article
>
> view:
> i = article.objects.get(id=4)
> initial_dict = {
> 'name': i.name,
> 'content':i.content,
> }
> form = articleForm(initial=initial_dict)
> Result is that first field is filled but the 2nd is not. It is not
> problem of tinymce scripts, because if i remove the editor scripts
> from view then i just get an empty textfield.
>
> There are several resuts if i search the web about prepopulating model
> fields, but none of them is about such problem. For prepopulating
> itself i followed this thread as an example
> :http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/ff83...
>
> Alan
Since articleForm is a ModelForm, you'd be best off using the instance
parameter rather than initial when you instantiate the form. That way,
it will also get the correct model ID, so that calling save() on the
form will correctly update the database rather than inserting a new
item.
form = articleForm(instance=i)
(Also, note that the Python convention is to use InitialCaps not
camelCase for class names, so it should be ArticleForm and Article.
But that's just being picky.)
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