I am filling my form with initial data using the normal:

    form = somethingForm(initial = {
                        'title' : something.title,                    
                        'category' : something.category_id,
                    })

The title works fine, but if the category is a ModelChoiceField and a ForeignKey in the model, the initial data won't work. Nothing will be selected in the Select Box. If I change category to an IntegerField in the model it works fine.

I still want to use a ForeignKey for category though, so how do I fix this?

have you tried directly referring to the model, instead of it's id? something like: 'category': something.category

Hey Herbert

Thanks for the input, but that didn't work.

I posted this question on stackoverflow too and somebody said I should do something like this

form = somethingForm(initial = {
                    'title' : something.title,                    
                    'category' : [("database value","display value")],
                })

but that didn't work either. I ended up just not using django forms for the category and doing it all manually ... checking the post data instead of the form.clean_data. I know it's not the best, but I can't find a solution for this problem, so it will have to do.