Pass initial value to a modelform in django

Question

How can I pass an initial value for a field to a model form. I have something like the following code

class ScreeningForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
             


        

Answer 1

As your ModelForm is bound to the Person-Model, you could either pass a Person-Instance:

form = PersonForm(instance=Person.objects.get(foo=bar)

or overwrite the ModelForm's init-method:

class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
       super(PersonForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
       self.fields['foo'].value = 'bar'

    class Meta:
        model = Person
        exclude = ['name']

This is untested. I'm not sure whether "value" is correct, I'm not having a Django-Installation here, but basically this is the way it works.