Question

I have a Person model which have a relationship with a City model:

class Person(models.Model):
    ...
    state = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=STATES)
    city = models.ForeignKey('City')

class PersonForm(ModelForm):
    ...
    class Meta:
        model = Person

class City(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    state = models.CharField(max_length=2)

I am using a ModelForm to render the Person form in the template, through the as_p attribute.

I have a pre-loaded set of data for the City database (it is a huge set of data in the DB), and I don’t wan’t that data to be loaded into a select list in the form created to include Person.

Is there any way to avoid that set of data being loaded in the html, using ModelForm and the as_p attribute?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ofcourse, you can overwrite any field or any widget, have a look, the django documentation is pretty clear on this:

modelform