http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/fixtures/
What you are looking for is an initial_data fixture. You need to serialize
the default instance of the model you want as JSON and save it in
initial_data.json and then it should prepopulate when you run syncdb.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM, djangoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A quick newbie question,
>
> is there any way that can create a default instance (a pre-specified
> instance) in the database once the model is created. In other words,
> when we first run the syncdb(or set up the website), an pre-defined
> instance is created.
>
> For example, we have a Book model,
>
> class Book(models.Model):
> author = models.CharField(maxlength = 50)
> title = models.CharField(maxlength = 50)
>
> When the website is first setup, we would like to have one default
> "Book" instance in the DB, say Book("John.Smith","COMPUT101").
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> >
>
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