#13015: Language regarding ModelForms with instances attached vs. bound Forms is
unclear
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Reporter: Wedg | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Documentation | Version: SVN
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I discovered that providing initial via the field =
FormField(initial='foobar') method and form =
ModelForm(initial={'field':'method'}) behaves differently when the
ModelForm is attached to a difference.
The documentation refers to a model instance bound to a form (at least in
one location: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/forms/modelforms
/#overriding-the-clean-method).
And also the documentation describing initial (both for fields and Forms)
says that it only provides a value for unbound forms.
Perhaps we could clarify the language to say that an instance is attached
to a ModelForm, but the form itself is unbound - and maybe yet further
explain that any initial= values for a FormField will be overridden by the
values from an attached model instance, which in turn will be overridden
by any initial= values provided to the ModelForm at runtime.
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Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13015>
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