Exactly, it ignores whatever POST value not related to the model field. You have to use f.cleaned_data['rating'] to get the rating value and use it or save it wherever it has to be stored, as Andy McKay pointed in his comment.
Hector Garcia - Web developer, musician http://nomadblue.com/ On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM, jul <juj...@gmail.com> wrote: > What happen to the rating field when doing the following? > > f = AddRestaurantForm(request.POST) > f.save() > > Does save() only use what it needs to fill the Restaurant instance and > doesn't use the rating value? > > > On Nov 13, 5:35 am, Andy Mckay <a...@clearwind.ca> wrote: >> On 09-11-12 2:33 PM, jul wrote: >> >> > I've got the Rating model and the AddRestaurantForm shown below. In >> > order to add a rating when submitting a new restaurant, I added an >> > extra field to AddRestaurantForm. Can I do that? If I can, how can I >> > save separately the Restaurant instance and the rating instance (I'll >> > get the user from the context)? >> >> Sure that works just fine. >> >> When you save the form, you'll save the restaurant instance. You can >> then get the rating from the forms.cleaned_data and save that however >> you'd like. >> -- >> Andy McKay >> �...@clearwind >> Training:http://clearwind.ca/training/ >> Zen:http://djangozen.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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=. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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=.
