This sounds like a ChoiceField instead of a MultipleChoiceField. A CheckboxSelectMultiple has to be used with a MultipleChoiceField.
Refer to: http://ontehfritz.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/django-forms-choicefield-and-multiplechoicefield/ Hope this helps. On Apr 2, 12:09 pm, ben <ben.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I am new to Django. I am currently using the latest Django 1.2 > from trunk. I am trying to store a list of values in a > CommaSeperatedIntegerList. I would like to use a > CheckboxSelectMultiple widget to render and select the values in the > list. I have setup my code like so. > > SOME_CHOICES = (('1', 'ch1'),('2', 'ch2'), ('3', 'ch3'),('4',"ch4"), > ('5',"ch5"),) > > class QandA(models.Model): > q1 = models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField(choices=SOME_CHOICES, > max_length=100, null=True,blank=True) > > class QandAForm(ModelForm): > class Meta: > model=QandA > fields=['q1'] > widgets={'q1':forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,} > > The form renders properly but I get the following validation error > after posting. > > "Select a valid choice. [u'1'] is not one of the available choices." > > The same thing happens when I attempt to use SelectMultiple as the > widget. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I have googled about > but have not been able to find anything describing how to handle this. > > Thanks, Ben -- 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.
