Django - Form element's default value error - django

Question

there are two links in one page[admin page]. both goes to same form page[ Add Post ]. in admin page ; you can click to 'new post' link or you can type your title in a textbox which is connected to same page[Add Post]. in that page ; i have a form which have a checkbox field.
isdraft = forms.BooleanField(required=False,initial=True)
as you can see ; i set the field's default value True. if i click the 'new post' at admin page ; to come that form page ; it works great. checkbox comes to me as True. but if i use other way [ typing title in textbox ] checkbox comes to me as False. i couldn't figure that out.
edit : i think the question is complicated. not clear. if any additional data needed ; i can add it.
edit :
admin.html :
<h1>PostsNew Post</h1> #this works!
<form action="{% url add_post %}" method="POST">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.title }} <!-- this is textbox -->
{{ form.isdraft.as_hidden }} <!-- when i add this line form works correctly. but i get 'please fill all fields' warning when redirected to add_post page. -->
</form>
edit2 :
add_post view:
#login_required(login_url='/login/')
def add_post(request):
template_name = 'add.html'
owner = request.user
if request.method == "POST":
form = addForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
titleform = form.cleaned_data['title']
bodyform = form.cleaned_data['body']
checkform = form.cleaned_data['isdraft']
n = Post(title=titleform, body=bodyform, isdraft=checkform, owner=owner)
n.save()
messages.add_message(request, messages.SUCCESS,
'New post created successfully!')
return HttpResponseRedirect('/admin/post/add/')
else:
messages.add_message(request, messages.WARNING,
'Please fill in all fields!')
else:
form = addForm()
return render_to_response(template_name, {'form': form, 'owner':owner,},context_instance=RequestContext(request))`
admin view :
#login_required(login_url='/login/')
def admin_view(request):
if request.session.get('loggedin') == "djangoo":
form = newDraft() # textbox in admin page
return render_to_response('admin.html', {'form':form },context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
return HttpResponseRedirect('/login/')
addForm :
class addForm(forms.Form):
title = forms.CharField(max_length=100,
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder':'Title here',}))
body = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(
attrs={'placeholder':'Write post here','rows':'25','cols':'90',}))
isdraft = forms.BooleanField(required=False,initial=True)

Answer 1

initial only works when the form is unbound.
When you click the new post link, you are doing a get request on the page, so the form is unbound and the initial value is used.
When you enter a title and submit, I assume you are doing a post request on the page. Therefore the form is bound, and the initial value will not be used.
I'm afraid I don't understand the question completely, and you haven't show much code, so I can't suggest any work arounds for you. Hope you get it working.
Update following edits to your question
When the data comes from the add_post view, don't create a bound form, because then the data will be validated and you'll get the error messages.
Instead, fetch the title from the post data, and use that to create an initial dictionary to instantiate your addForm with.
You need a way to tell whether the post request came from the admin or add post view. You could do this by adding another hidden field to the addForm.
action = forms.CharField(widget=forms.HiddenInput, initial="addform")
Then change your add_post view to something like:
if request.method == 'POST':
if request.POST.get('action') == 'addform':
form = addForm(initial={'title': request.POST.get('title'), 'isdraft': True})
else:
# your existing code for handling a request post