How I can use correctly django ModelChoiceField

Question

I'm a newbie and right now I'm using Django forms to show some fields. One of these fields is a ModelChoiceField this show correctly model data, but I don´t know how I can fill a CharField later of select a option in the ModelChoiceField.

How I can make send the value of option selected for obtain the data that i need for later show this in a CharField, this is possible make directly from a djangoForm or do I need a new view to return the value?

Answer 1

There are two ways to achieve what you want I think:

1. Provide an initial value for your form value.
2. Bind your form to some data.

See this related stack overflow to provide initial values .

See Django's documentation on forms for binding data. There are two kinds of form states: bound and unbound . To create a bound form, you just need to create an instance of your form with some data: MyForm({'data-key1': 'data-value1', ...}) .