Finally - FIXED! After a some experimenting with the command line I found out that I can not access the foreign key field if there is no actual record.
So this throws the error as well: >>> doc = main_documents.objects.create(doc_name="test", doc_description="description") >>> doc.created_by But after assigning a value, created_by is available: >>> from accounts.models import UserAccount >>> user = UserAccount.objects.get(pk=1) >>> doc.created_by = user >>> doc.created_by <UserAccount: [email protected]> So finally I changed my code to this: (maybe there is some more elegant way, but currently the main thing is that it works now :-) def doc_details(request, doc_id=None): > > isNewRecord = False > > if doc_id is not None: > document = main_documents.objects.get(pk = doc_id) > else: > document = None > isNewRecord = True > > if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted... > form = DocumentForm(request.POST, instance=document) # A form > bound to the POST data > if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass > document = form.save(commit=False) > if isNewRecord or document.created_by is None: > document.created_by = request.user > document.save() > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
