45. Setup form initial values inside HorillaFormView | Free & Open Source HR Software | Free HRMS

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Hi all, welcome to new video of Horilla development series. In this video, we will cover how we can set up initial value for our Hora forms. Okay, when you check the created Hora form view. Here we can see there is already some default initial value for employee request date till date. Okay. Uh it's because it's already configured inside the Horella form. So let's see how we can uh set up some initial value inside hora form class view. Okay to do that inside hurl there is a function called get uh get initial. So the get initial will uh return written a dictionary dictionary of uh key with the field and value of the initial value. So let's see how we can set up it inside form class view. So we simply have to write get def um get initial then let's store this into a variable like called um initial then return the initial okay uh for the purpose of video uh I'm going to provide a initial value for the description and also for the requested till date. Okay. Okay, initial will be I can provide uh the field li will be description and uh the value for the initial like okay and for the uh requested till okay let's confirm the field name here is the shift request model requested date um yeah requested till Okay, for the requested field, I'm going to uh provide the next date. So to do that, I'm going to import date time from date time import date time also for the also the time delta time. Then uh the requested till will be date time dot today. So it will return current date. Then we will uh add a single day to do that time delta of day equal to 1. Okay. Now let's restart the ser server. Okay. Once the server is restarted when you check it inside the hurilla uh for inside the hella and open the form here you can see uh the initial value for the description and the requested till uh initial value is showing over here. So I hope you understood this video. If you any doubt queries you you can ask it inside the comments. Thank you for watching.