Yes it seems to be the logical solution. And does this override the save() method? I guess yes so I'll have to save the entire form by hand. I think I'm in for a good documentation reading... thanks for your guidance Jashugan. Bastien
On Jun 3, 5:11 pm, Jashugan <jashu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 3, 2:09 am, Bastien <bastien.roche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have a form where the user chooses her activity and then I > > automatically fill the category field in the database according to her > > activity. My question is where should live the code that do that? I > > want it to be triggered once the user hits the submit button of the > > form, I take the activity of the user, check in which category it is > > and set the category field. > > Personally I create a save field on the form (just like it was a model > form). Then my view code looks like: > > ## views.py > > if request.method == 'POST': > form = MyForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): > form.save() > # redirect as usual > > ## forms.py > > class MyForm(forms.Form): > activity = forms.CharField() > > def save(self): > # do your saving here --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
