On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Gloria <strang...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Here's the line from my model:
> class UserProfile(models.Model):
> some other fields...
> privacy_options = models.ManyToManyField(PrivacyOption,
> blank=True, null=True, db_table = 'usr_privacy_selection')
>
> Here's the bit from my form:
>
> class ModifyProfileForm(forms.Form):
> some other fields...
> privacy = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
> queryset=PrivacyOption.objects.all(),
> required=False,
> show_hidden_initial=True,
> widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,
> )
>
Hmmm... what are you trying to do by passing the queryset? Doesn't that
send your form everybody's data, instead of just the active user? If I
recall correctly, passing a queryset will initialize a form, so perhaps all
you need to do there is make it a "get" that returns only the current user's
data?
> When I initialize it like this:
>
> data = {some other fields...
> 'privacy' : user_profile.privacy_options
> }
>
> form=ModifyProfileForm(data)
>
That doesn't look right. I think should be:
form=ModifyProfileForm(initial=data)
But I'm also not sure if your data dict is correct. It should have an item
for each field that you want to initialize.
>
> Trying to set the initial value for this particular field also does
> not seem to help:
>
> initial_dict = {}
> for x in user_profile.privacy_options.all():
> initial_dict[x.name]=True
>
> form=ModifyProfileForm(data)
> form.fields['privacy'].initial = initial_dict
>
>
Again, I don't quite understand why your queryset is using "all" - seems
like you would just want one row ("get"). I'm not sure what the form object
would do with a queryset that has multiple rows. Your dict should be passed
in the second to last line:
form=ModifyProfileForm(initial=initial_dict)
Something like your last line might work, but it is a lot more work than
just passing the form the initialization dict.
Others feel free to jump in here and set me straight as needed. I'm still
fairly new to Django, so I'm no expert... but I've been struggling to learn
the same stuff lately.
Nick
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