Question

I have declared the following form

form = BudgetPageInitial()

in my view.py, what I want is to pass on a variable(say ‘x’) into the BudgetPageInitial(), so that I can use that variable in the forms definition in forms.py to generate ‘x’ number of input fields int he form BudgetPageInitial.

Please guide me to do so.

Answer 1

View

form = MiscQuestionForm(request.POST or None, misc=misc_questions)

Form

class MiscQuestionForm(BootstrapForm):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        misc = kwargs.pop('misc')
        super(MiscQuestionForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        for question in misc:
            if question.answer_type == 1:  # bool
                self.fields['custom_%s' % question.pk] = forms.BooleanField(
                        label=question, required=True)
            else:  # textfield
                self.fields['custom_%s' % question.pk] = forms.CharField(
                        label=question, widget=forms.Textarea,
                        required=True)

This is the design pattern you can use to pass variables to your form definition as I have with misc.