Re: Conditionally bypassing Django form validation

2009-06-18 Thread chefsmart
Hi, Now when I think about this, even when I POST the form, I would somehow have to tell Django to check for uniqueness in the following way: - SELECT * from my_table WHERE short_name = [short_name parameter goes here] AND id != [primary key parameter goes here] and SELECT * from my_table WHER

Re: Conditionally bypassing Django form validation

2009-06-18 Thread chefsmart
Thank you Daniel, That's absolutely what it was. So posting all that amount of code was fruitful after all, else we would have gone back and forth trying to find out where the problem lay!! Regards, CM On Jun 19, 12:19 am, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jun 18, 8:02 pm, chefsmart wrote: > > > >

Re: Conditionally bypassing Django form validation

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Jun 18, 8:02 pm, chefsmart wrote: > Hi, > Now consider the following view: - > > def edit_diploma(request, did): >     diploma_to_edit = Diploma.objects.get(id=did) >     if request.method == 'POST': >         form = EditDiplomaForm(request.POST) >         if form.is_valid(): >             di

Conditionally bypassing Django form validation

2009-06-18 Thread chefsmart
Hi, [ Please excuse if this post is a little verbose, but I want to present my case thoroughly ] I am using my own form to edit my models instead of using Django admin (because of client compulsions) Let's consider the following model: - class Diploma(models.Model): short_name = models.Cha