On Nov 24, 4:42 am, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a form that I've tried creating a couple of ways, including as a > ModelForm, which doesn't seem to want to perform an UPDATE operation. I'm > hoping for some help here... If I create it as a ModelForm, it doesn't > validate, I'm guessing because the form doesn't include the foreign keys in > the model (I haven't tried passing them in the form - that shouldn't be > necessary - but I probably will, next). If I create a form from the POST > data, it complains that required fields are missing. > > My reading of the docs is that if I supply the primary key and the row > exists, an UPDATE should happen, which won't care if required fields are > present or not (since I don't want to change those values). But that's not > happening - no matter what I do, it seems to be generating an error that > indicates it is trying to create a new row with a duplicate ID. > > Anybody have a working example of a form that updates, rather than inserts? > Oh, and forcing an update in the save method doesn't solve the problem. > > I have no problem performing updates outside of the context of forms - I > just can't figure out how to get it to work with forms. > > Thanks in advance, > > Nick
Examples are in the modelforms documentation. Maybe you could post some code so we can see what you're doing wrong? -- DR. -- 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=en.
