Comments on: Doing things with Django forms

By: Nicola Culli

Nicola Culli — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:45:17 +0000

Hi, i tried that example and i didn’t get one part working from the beginning, how come it doesn’t work for me?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:51:16 +0000

Foe no. 6, the definition of the class UserForm changes depending on which employee is involved. if I just create an new instance of UserForm, how does Python know which definition to use?

By: shabda

shabda — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:11:08 +0000

@geo: Thanks, updated the posts.

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By: geo

geo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:32:23 +0000

Hey, at the code snippet at number 4, shouldn’t it be “except User.DoesNotExist” instead of “User.DoesNotExist:” ?

By: nix

nix — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:55:58 +0000

I like Django! Thanks for info about this

By: shabda

shabda — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:55:01 +0000

Dave:

I dont think you can use formset for that, you should use the second method, and set prefixes manually, eg



for question in survey.questions.all():
   qform = SurveyForm(survey, prefix = question.slug)
   if questions.is_optional:
     qform.set_optional()

Etc

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:42:21 +0000

Thanks for this post. Very helpful!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:39:03 +0000

Cool post. Thanks. Suggestion for future post: How to use static values in a formset. For example display a list view of items, but with an enable/disable check box on each item. I tried using a formset containing a BooleanField, but could not figure out how to add static fields to it. And for extra credit, update check box value via AJAX.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:19:43 +0000

Nice round up of use cases and solutions. This is a good reference for noobs and experienced Django devs. Thanks.