django-forms

Insert django form into template dynamically using javascript??

I want to add same django form instance on same template. i already add one before and other add dynamically using javascript. for example 'form" is a django form: newcell.innerHTML = {{ form.firstname }}; The problem is that when i submit the form, in view the request object has only one value (that is not add using javascript). how ca...

In Django Combobox choices, how do you lookup description from short value?

In Django models/forms the choices for a combobox often look like this: food_choices = (("",""), ("1", "Falafel"), ("2", "Hummus"), ("3", "Eggplant Stuff, Babaganoush???"), So the value to be stored in the database will be 1/2/3, but the displayed value on the form will be the long description. When we are working in code outside a...

How do I display the Django '__all__' form errors in the template?

I have the following form code: # forms.py class SomeForm(forms.Form): hello = forms.CharField(max_length=40) world = forms.CharField(max_length=40) def clean(self): raise forms.ValidationError('Something went wrong') # views.py def some_view(request): if request.method == 'POST': form = SomeForm(reques...

Django ModelFormSet with Google app engine

I'm using Django with google app engine. I'm using the google furnished django app engine helper project. I'm attempting to create a Django modelformset like this: #MyModel inherits from BaseModel MyFormSet = modelformset_factory(models.MyModel) However, it's failing with this error: 'ModelOptions' object has no attribute 'fi...

Django Formset management-form validation error

I have a form and a formset on my template. The problem is that the formset is throwing validation error claiming that the management form is "missing or has been tampered with". Here is my view @login_required def home(request): user = UserProfile.objects.get(pk=request.session['_auth_user_id']) blogz = list(blog.objects.filt...

django: CheckboxMultiSelect problem with db queries

firstly sorry for my bad english there is a simple model Person. That contains just languages: LANGUAGE_LIS = ( (1, 'English'), (2, 'Turkish'), (3, 'Spanish') ) class Person(models.Model): languages = models.CharField(max_length=100, choices=LANGUAGE_LIST) #languages is multi value (CheckBoxSelectMultiple) and he...

Edit the opposite side of a many to many relationship with django generic form

I have two models: class Actor(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=30, unique = True) event = models.ManyToManyField(Event, blank=True, null=True) class Event(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=30, unique = True) long_description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True) In a previou...

Django Form for date range

I am trying to come up with a form that lets the user select a date range to generate a web query in Django. I am having errors getting the date to filter with in my view, I am unable to strip the date. Here is my forms.py class ReportFiltersForm(forms.Form): start_date = forms.DateField(input_formats='%Y,%m,%d',widget=SelectDateWidg...

Django - How best to handle ValidationErrors after form.save(commit=False)

This is a fragment of my code from a view: if form.is_valid(): instance = form.save(commit=False) try: instance.account = request.account instance.full_clean() except ValidationError, e: # Do something with the errors here... I certainly don't want to do this 180 times. T...

Django: one form for two models (solved)

UPDATE The issue is solved, all the code you can see works. Hello! I have a ForeignKey relationship between TextPage and Paragraph and my goal is to make front-end TextPage creating/editing form as if it was in ModelAdmin with 'inlines': several fields for the TextPage and then a couple of Paragraph instances stacked inline. The proble...

Writing custom Django form fields and widgets

Django has very good documentation that describes how to write custom database fields and custom template tags and filters. I cannot find the document that describes how to write custom form fields and widgets. Does this document exist? The way I've been able to write custom form fields and widgets is by reading the Django source code...

Django Initial for a ManyToMany Field

I have a form that edits an instance of my model. I would like to use the form to pass all the values as hidden with an inital values of username defaulting to the logged in user so that it becomes a subscribe form. The problem is that the normal initial={'field':value} doesn't seem to work for manytomany fields. how do i go about it? ...

Filter Queryset in Django inlineformset_factory

I am trying to use inlineformset_factory to generate a formset. My models are defined as: class Measurement(models.Model): subject = models.ForeignKey(Subject) experiment = models.ForeignKey(Experiment) assay = models.ForeignKey(Assay) values = models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField(blank=True, null=True) class Experiment(m...

Get Django form field from model field

I'd like to create a form that includes fields from two separate models, along with some other regular (non-model) fields. The form will create an instance of each model. I don't think I can use inline formsets for this, since I don't want to include all the fields from both models. I'd like to create the form field without hard-coding ...

Add a prefix do Django comment form

I would like to add a prefix to each django comment form. I'm using multiply comment forms in the same page and depsite it's working well, i don't like having many input fields with the same id attribute like <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot" />. So, is there a way to tell django do add a prefix to each form instance?...

Django extending user model and displaying form

Hello, I am writing website and i`d like to implement profile managment. Basic thing would be to edit some of user details by themself, like first and last name etc. Now, i had to extend User model to add my own stuff, and email address. I am having troubles with displaying form. Example will describe better what i would like achi...

django form creation on init

Hi, How can I add a field in the form init function? e.g. in the code below I want to add a profile field. class StaffForm(forms.ModelForm): def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs): if user.pk == 1: self.fields['profile'] = forms.CharField(max_length=200) super(StaffForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwarg...

Django-Registration & Django-Profile, using your own custom form

Hey All, I am making use of django-registration and django-profile to handle registration and profiles. I would like to create a profile for the user at the time of registration. I have created a custom registration form, and added that to the urls.py using the tutorial on: http://dewful.com/?p=70 The basic idea in the tutorial is to...

Why don't these class attributes register?

I have a factory method that generates django form classes like so: def get_indicator_form(indicator, patient): class IndicatorForm(forms.Form): #These don't work! indicator_id = forms.IntegerField(initial=indicator.id, widget=forms.HiddenInput()) patient_id = forms.IntegerField(initial=patient.id, widget=for...

Returning form errors for AJAX request in Django

Hi Guys, I've been finding my way around Django and jQuery. I've built a basic form in Django. On clicking submit, I'm using jQuey to make an AJAX request to the sever to post my data. This bit seems to work fine and I've managed to save the data. Django returns a ValidatioError when a form is invalid. Could anyone tell me how to retur...