Hey Simon On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Simon <simon.j.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm writing an app to allow users in a school to upload newsletters to our > website, but I'm having problems using models.FileField in a generic view. > I've set > MEDIA_ROOT = '/data/school/media/' > and MEDIA_URL is also set to a valid location. I've checked and re-checked > permissions on the directories: www-data (apache user) has full RWX > permissions. The model: > class Newsletter(models.Model): > issue_date = models.DateField() > issue_number = models.IntegerField() > table_of_contents = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True) > pdf_file = models.FileField(upload_to='newsletters', null=True, > blank=True) > In urls.py: > # Create newsletter detail > (r'^new/$', > CreateView.as_view( > model=Newsletter, > template_name='newsletter/edit.html', > )), > If I set the pdf_file field so that a file is required, it fails every time > with the error "This field is required", even though a file has been > selected. If I set it to "null=True, blank=True" (as above) it takes no > notice of the file I have selected in the "pdf_file" upload field. > I'm not sure if I've missed something obvious. Searching around turns up an > old bug which gives the same problem but was fixed years ago. > Any suggestions would be appreciated, TIA.
Which enctype do you use when submitting the form? It does not work with the default POST enctype, you have to use the following: <form method="post" action="." enctype="multipart/form-data"> Matthias -- Matthias Kestenholz - Dipl. Umwelt-Natw. ETH - Konzept & Programmierung FEINHEIT GmbH - Molkenstrasse 21 - CH-8004 Zürich - www.feinheit.ch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
