how to pass the ID of a slected item in a list to ORM

[Gerald Brown]

Greetings:

I have a form with a listbox that has people's names and their ID from the database.  I am trying to get the ID from that list for the selected person so I can use it in ORM statements: I.E. v1 = Visit.objects.filter(person_id = ??) where ?? is the ID from the select list.

Has anyone had any experience on how I can accomplish this?

Thanks.

[Anthony Anonde]

Sorry your question is a bit complicated, you have a form that contains a list of names and id, what data types are they contain in? Understand how the list box is structured will help to give you a better ans

[C. Kirby]

So you have a

<select>
  <option>A</option>
  <option>B</option>
  <option>C</option>
</select>


If you make your option tags look like

<option value="{{person.person_id}}">{{person.name}}</option>

The submitted value for the field will be the patient_id, which you then use in your filter statement.

[Gerald Brown]

The ID is an integer as it is the ID for the table. The name is a VARCHAR.

I have had this same problem in the past with other programming
languages.  How to get my head around how to get the ID for a selected item.

[Gerald Brown]

When I inspect the object in Firefox that is what it looks like because it is generated by Django. Does the user have to select an item and then submit it in order for me to get the ID?

Thanks.

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[C. Kirby]

Yes

[Gerald Brown]

Thanks for the reply.

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