[Answered ]-Setting the initial value for a readonly Choice (ForeignKey) field

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Have you tried setting the attribute in the Form’s Meta class?

I experienced an issue where Form attributes were not applied for Model Fields if set in the base class definition, but they worked correctly in the Meta class:

class CompanyNoteForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.CompanyNote
        widgets = {'company': forms.widgets.Select(attrs={'readonly': True,
                                                          'disabled': True})}

Otherwise check this answer out.

Worst case scenario, make company a hidden field?

👤Lysergia25

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Use a ModelChoiceField

class CompanyNoteForm(forms.ModelForm):
    company = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=models.Company.objects.all(), widget=forms.widgets.Select(attrs={'readonly': 'readonly'}))
👤Nathaniel

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I could not find this answer anywhere, that I could actually get to work. But I found a different approach. Set the field to be hidden with forms.HiddenInput() widget. Then the value you pass in from the view will be assigned but the user cannot access it.

widgets = {'field_name': forms.HiddenInput()}

I’m using ModelForm class so my syntax might be different from yours.

👤myfavoritenoisemaker

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