How to give initial value in modelform
django, google-app-engine
Solution
Normally you would pass the model object you are editing as instance keyword arg to the form: `Form2(instance = somemodelobject)`, but I don't know if it works on GAE. You can always pass initial dictionary to your form's constructor, like
Form2(initial = {"title": "blahblah"})
Problem
How do I assign initial values to fields inside a ModelForm? eg: ``` class Form1(forms.Form): title=forms.CharField(initial="hello") ``` What will be the equivalent for this using modelForm whose basic syntax is something like: ``` class Form2(djangoforms.ModelForm): class Meta: model=SomeModel fields=('title',) ``` What I am trying to do is generate a CRUD. Since I am doing it in an appengine project I can't use generic views. Appengine has provided us `djangoforms.ModelForm` which works just like the django's `ModelForm` but uses appengine's datastore. I need the above functionality to do the "edit" part.