On Jul 26, 8:49 am, gondor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using admin panel and using get_form to retrieve one of my table > objects. I have a choicefield in this object but I don't know how to > set the default. I have saw numerous examples of using the > following: > > class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): > list_display = ('rank', 'name') > def get_form(self,request,obj=None,**kwargs): > return super(MyAdmin,self).get_form(request, obj=None, **kwargs) > > rank is a choicefield. > > choices are 1,2,3,4 > > right now it defaults to '-------' and I want it to default to 1. > > I'm wanting to do this because without it i'm getting a "Incorrect > integer value: '' for column 'rank' at row 1 error > > the '------' is giving me a empty value and I need something there or > a method to handle this error ? > > Thanx
The problem is that somewhere you have specified this field as required=False (or, in the model, blank=True). Without that, Django doesn't add the blank option, and it will default to the first value in the list (1). -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
