Hi Eric,
Unfortunately neither of those seem to do anything - the template
seems to just skip over it. I first tried with the 0.96 release, and I
have updated to the SVN version with the same result.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Matt.
On Jul 25, 6:55 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> {{ form.as_ul }} or {{ form.as_table }}, etc, should work for this
> purpose.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Eric
>
> Matt wrote:
> > Hello group,
>
> > I'm reasonably new to Django andconfused over how to implement generic
> > views for CRUD operations, specifically with respect to newforms. I'm
> > using 0.96 for the time being, but I'm happy to upgrade to the
> > development version if required.
>
> > What I'm trying to acheive is an automatic way of rendering a form to
> > create/update etc. a model. I know this is possible because the admin
> > site does it!
>
> > I understand how the URLconf part of things work, but I'm not sure
> > what to put in the template to actually render the form.
>
> > For completeness, my URLconf contains this line:
>
> > > (r'^job/new/$', create_object, {'model': Job, 'template_name':
> > > 'newjob.html'}),
>
> > and my (very simplistic) template contains this:
>
> > > {% block content %}
> > > <p>Fill in this form:</p>
> > > {{form}}
> > > {% endblock %}
>
> > I had hoped that some magic would turn {{form}} into an HTML rendered
> > form, but all it does it output the __str__ method of FormWrapper.
>
> > If I use {{form.field}}, then the field is correctly rendered in the
> > HTML - but it seems stupidly repetitive to have to manually rebuild
> > forms in the template using {{form.field}} for every field. So my
> > first question is: how can this be done automatically?
>
> > Secondly, am I shooting myself in the foot here by using elements of
> > oldforms which will be canned in the next stable release? And if so,
> > are there any resources out there on how to do this the 'right' way?
>
> > Many thanks indeed,
> > Matt.
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