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Omar Jandali
Omar Jandali

Reputation: 824

Simple way to fill django form with stored information - Django

I have a django template that I want to display for the user. Now I am working on an editable version of an html template. I wanted to know if there is a way to prefill a django form with relative information that is grabbed from the database or query set. I know how to display and work with forms, but not prefilling a form with information.

Here is a simple form and queryset.

I want to fill the UserSettingsTwoForm() with info from the currentProfile queryset.

currentProfile = Profile.objects.get(user = currentUser)
userSettingTwo = UserSettingsTwoForm()
parameters = {
  'userSettingTwo':userSettingTwo,
}
return render(request, 'tabs/user_settings.html', parameters)

Here is a sample html file:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
  <h1>Settings</h1>
  <form action="." method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ userSettingTwo.as_p }}
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
  </form>
{% endblock %}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (1)

Sagar
Sagar

Reputation: 1155

If UserSettingsTwoForm is Profile model form then you can load previous instance by just instance keyword and pass instance to it

currentProfile = Profile.objects.get(user = currentUser)
userSettingTwo  = UserSettingsTwoForm(instance=current_profile)
 parameters = {
  'userSettingTwo':userSettingTwo,
}
return render(request, 'tabs/user_settings.html', parameters)

Otherwise Use Initial if UserSettingsTwoForm is not profile model form.

currentProfile = Profile.objects.get(user = currentUser)
userSettingTwo  = UserSettingsTwoForm(initial = {'form_field': currentProfile.fieldname, 'form_second_field': currentProfile.fieldname})
 parameters = {
  'userSettingTwo':userSettingTwo,
}
return render(request, 'tabs/user_settings.html', parameters)

Thats' it.

Upvotes: 2

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