Using Django Cleaned_data To Reset Data Before Commit To Db

I started this thread and managed to figure out the issue yesterday. However, another related issue has occurred. When I have a 2nd select list in the model, and I select '8888' or

Solution 1:

I never discovered the answer to this issue.

However, a workaround is that on form submit when 8888 or 9999 is selected and there are no errors, I manually set the value to 1 using jquery:

$('#id_of_element_type').val('1');

I hope that this will assist someone.