Thank you so much!
I'm new to Django and I have to say that the framework is so easy to
use that it's frustrating to find out how to do things
-Anders
On Feb 8, 3:09 pm, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Anders Eide <eide.and...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a table width movies, and I would like to make a form and a
> > view thats updates a row.
>
> > I build the form automatically from a model
>
> > class SaveMovieForm(ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = Movie
> > id = forms.IntegerField(
> > widget = forms.HiddenInput(),
> > required = False
> > )
>
> > And populates it like this
>
> > movie = Movie.objects.get(id=id)
>
> > form = SaveMovieForm({
> > 'title' = movie.title,
> > ...
> > })
>
> > Then sends the form to the template using RequestContext and
> > render_to_response
>
> > But I'm getting the warning that the title already exists. This
> > results in that I can't update the row. How can I tell the form that
> > the request is a update, not a create?
>
> Pass the movie as the instance argument to SaveMovieForm, eg:
>
> form = SaveMovieForm(data=request.POST, instance=movie)
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
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