set initial value in CreateView from ForeignKey (non-self.request.user)

Question

I am attempting to access ForeignKeys in Class Based Views CreateView. I would like to be able to dynamically set initial values in CBV from ForeignKeys and also dynamically

Answer 1

You need to instantiate your recipe:

class IngredientAddView(CreateView):
    model=Ingredient

    def get_initial(self):
        recipe = get_object_or_404(Recipe, slug=self.kwargs.get('slug'))
        return {
            'recipe':recipe,
        }