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Passing values from the view to the form.

Passing values from the view to the form it is really popular. Ex: form should be different for different kind of the user. Unfortunately I have not seen a documentation how to do this with class based view. This task is separated in the two parts: 1) Prepare values in the view class Myview(): """ This is only example view """ # set form form_class = myformwithadditionallogic # our function which pass some values to the form def get_initial(self): """ Passing initial values to the form""" # default initial should be saved super(Myview, self).get_initial() self.initial = {"ourvalue":1} return self.initial That all for view. Second part is retreive this data in the form: class myformwithadditionallogic(): """ the example form . has no field only constructor """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): """ Constructor """ myvalues = kwargs.pop( '