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Sunil Thomas
Sunil Thomas

Reputation: 59

How to set initial value of Django-Select2 widget in Django

I am using the django-select2 plugin for a field that lets the user select an institution from a list in the database( driven by AJAX), and it works fine. Here is the field in forms.py

    institution = forms.CharField(
    widget = ModelSelect2Widget(
        queryset=Institution.objects.all(),
        attrs={'class': 'form-control'},
        model=Institution,
        search_fields=['name__icontains'],
        max_results=500,
    ),

Using the same form, the user can edit/change the previous selected Institute. For this, however, I would like to set the initial selected value of the field as the previously selected Institution. This is has caused me a lot of trouble as I am unable to set an initial value for the plugin despite trying many things.

Ideally I am looking to set the initial value of the plugin without using any Javascript(using only Django form options) , something like :

current_instutition = Institution.objects.get(user=page_user)
form.fields['institution'].initial = current_institution

(the above doesn't work)

I've tried using the Select2 placeholder option to set this manually during page load using the following Javascript code:

$("#id_institution").djangoSelect2({
                    placeholder: {
                        id: '123',
                        text: 'My Institution'
                        }
                    });

This doesn't seem to do anything at all.(The plugin still loads, with an empty(or no) placeholder) .I'm not sure if django-select2 overrides the manual Select2 options.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4970

Answers (1)

Timothé Delion
Timothé Delion

Reputation: 1460

Your institution field is a CharField, not a ModelChoiceField. That is the reason this line is not correct : 

form.fields['institution'].initial = current_institution

Upvotes: 1

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