This thread has slipped into inactivity, but perhaps there is someone,
who can clear this thing for me.
Additionally... with form = articleForm(instance=i) it does insert new
article into database instead of updating old one...
Alan.
On May 9, 10:27 pm, zayatzz <alan.kesselm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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