Thanks for the advice- it worked like a charm and i guess that was the
better way to do it.
But lets say i do need to create new item into database - new revision
of an edited article. In that case the code i posted previously should
work, or should it not? And why does'nt it work?
Alan
On May 9, 9:30 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 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.)
> --
> DR.
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