I tried that before your answer arrived and it worked like a charm. I just excluded the author field from the form and kept everything else the same. It works perfectly, as the user was already passed to the author field in the view. A logged in user can now automatically post a story now through the form and it appears under their username.
So simple. I asked elsewhere and received extremely convoluted answers that caused more confusion and chaos rather than comfort. Thank you for reaffirming. Although, I didn't have to override the form (new_story.save()) to make it work. I should probably just leave it alone and enjoy the functionality! On Feb 24, 11:02 pm, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > Read the Django docs about ModelForms, then use the 'exclude' kwarg to > exclude the author from your ModelForm. > > Then, use request.user to get the appropriate user in your view and pass > that to the form save(), which you must override to accept the extra > argument, and use that user in the save() method to set the author directly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
