Re: Django - PrePopulate the Foreign Key on the web page, and use that id to save the model.

you're welcome, Mayank! Adding initial to your ModelChoiceField definition should give you the preselection. self.fields['project'] = forms.ModelChoiceField( initial=projectid, queryset=Project.objects.filter(id=projectid) ) On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1

Re: Django - PrePopulate the Foreign Key on the web page, and use that id to save the model.

Cool, thanks Antje. Seems it is working now, the only thing is in Drop-down i will have the Project Name for which the URL is rest of the PRojects are removed from drop down. Now will work to have pre-selected. As of now it will default display as -- with only one required project name. Thank

Re: Django - PrePopulate the Foreign Key on the web page, and use that id to save the model.

Hi, I think in your view modulesView() you need to pass the project id to ModuleForm: .. else : form = ModuleForm(projectid) .. and then you need to overwrite the constructor of ModuleForm by adding an __init__ function: def __init__(self, projectid=None, *args, **kwargs): super(Mod

Django - PrePopulate the Foreign Key on the web page, and use that id to save the model.

Hi All, I am facing an issue, to pre-populate the Foreign Key on the web page. Actually i have two models Projects and Modules. To create a Module, one has to select the Project and go to Module page for create it, but there the Project is not populated. Below are the details... Please guide me