Well, usually when TW2 is used with TG you don't use tw2.core.Page, as the
page is served by TG itself, so I'm not sure if AdminPage is getting
between you and the form and causing problems. Nor I know what
self.widget() does, so I don't know how the values are used.
When you use the form directly, pre-filling values is as simple as
form.display(value={'form_field':'field-value'}) and you get your fields
already filled with the passed values.
You can find a simple example of a form that pre-fills data here:
http://turbogears.readthedocs.org/en/tg2.3.0b2/cookbook/TwForms.html#displaying-forms
My suggestion is to try with a simple form like in the linked example and
see if it works as expected.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Dennis Backhaus <
[email protected]> wrote:
> custom
>
> Here is my controller for the form:
>
> class User5amController(AdminBaseController):
> @expose('alims.templates.widget')
> def index(self, *args, **kw):
> log.debug('***%s***' %kw)
> return self.widget(UserForm,kw)
>
> The debug log is in there to confirm that the attributes I send via the
> URL appears in kw (it does)
>
> The form is here:
>
> class UserForm(AdminPage):
> entity = model.User
> title = 'User'
> class child(FloatForm):
> cid=1
> css_class = 'floatform'
> buttons = [SaveButton(),CancelButton()]
> help_msg = 'Enter the information for the new user'
> id = HiddenField(validator=twc.IntValidator)
> customer_id = TextField(
> label="Customer ID",
> attrs=dict(disabled=True),
> value=cid
> )
> user_name = TextField(
> label="User ID",
> validator = twc.Required
> )
> password = PasswordField(
> label="Password",
> validator = twc.Required
> )
>
> Now, basically what I need is to set 'cid' in the form to the value of
> 'customer_id' in 'kw' - instead of its current placeholder 'cid=1'.
>
> The template is here:
>
> <form xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/"; class="floatform"
> py:attrs="w.attrs">
> <div py:if="w.error_msg" class="formerror" py:content="w.error_msg"/>
> <div py:if="w.help_msg" class="formhelp"><p
> py:content="w.help_msg"/></div>
> <div py:replace="w.child.display()"/>
> <div py:for="button in w.buttons" class="field"
> py:content="button.display()"/>
> </form>
>
> I am assuming here is where I have to do something... I just do not know
> what.
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 1:52:03 PM UTC-4, Alessandro Molina wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> is your form automatically generated by the admin or are you talking
>> about a custom made controller and template?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Dennis Backhaus <
>> back...@moxieinformatics.**com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like a simple task, *but for some reason this only works for the
>>> primary key of the model in my form*.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> /customer - opens an empty form to add a new customer
>>>
>>> /customer?customer_id=X - opens a form with the customer information of
>>> customer with customer_id = X for edit
>>>
>>> /customer?customer_name=Tech - opens an empty form to add a new customer
>>> (instead of opening the customer object where customer_name=Tech
>>>
>>> Why is this happening? I spent the last two hours on google trying to
>>> find answers, but I did not find anything yet. Most answers seem to suggest
>>> that it should just simply work. Since it does not, I wonder if this is a
>>> TG (TW) issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> In the end I want to get to the point that customers can only be created
>>> when customer_name is defined in the URL and the customer_name field is
>>> read_only in the form.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If this is not a TG problem, please direct me to the right answer.
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> --
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
>>> Groups "TurboGears" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
>>> an email to turbogears+...@**googlegroups.com.
>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
>>>
>>> Visit this group at
>>> http://groups.google.com/**group/turbogears<http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears>
>>> .
>>> For more options, visit
>>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "TurboGears" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to [email protected].
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>
>
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"TurboGears" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
