Question

According to the documentation providing initial values for fields that are bound to a model is not possible.

In my model form though I have created an additional unbound field:

class DealCForm(ModelForm):
    attach_deal_conversation  = forms.BooleanField(required=False, initial=False)

Hence I would like to set this value if certain conditions are met.

View:

deal_formset = modelformset_factory(Deal, form=DealCForm, extra=0)

if (request.POST)
        pass
else:                 
        opendeal_formset = deal_formset(queryset=formset_query)
variables = RequestContext(request, {'opendeal_formset' : opendeal_formset)
return render_to_response('conversation.html', variables)

In the view, just before sending it to the template, I have set the value directly, however it doesn’t work:

for dfm in deal_formset:
            for odfm in opendeal_formset:
                if dfm.pk == odfm.pk:
                    odfm.attach_deal_conversation = True;

But it doesn’t work. ANy idea how to set the initial value for an unbound field?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

This runs for me:

for form in opendeal_formset:
    form.fields['attach_deal_conversation'].initial=True