Why would it make sense to switch from different form type?
I use below form to get information that I like to save to user database?
Part of information I need ot update goes to Additional user info class, I
would like to stay in my own form.
-Thanks
maanantai 19. tammikuuta 2015 11.26.47 UTC+2 Daniel Roseman kirjoitti:
>
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 09:22:02 UTC, joulumaa wrote:
>>
>> I have created user earlier in code with email address and password.
>> Created users work fine.
>> Now in later phase I asked more information and would like to fill in
>> first_name and last_name.
>> Code shows old first_name and last_name properly if set in admin view,
>> but logged in user cannot save his information for some reason?
>>
>> p=User.objects.get(username=request.user.username)
>> if request.method == 'POST':
>> form = AdditionalCandidateInfo(request.POST)
>> if form.is_valid():
>> p.first_name=form.cleaned_data['first_name']
>> p.last_name=form.cleaned_data['last_name']
>> p.save()
>> return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
>> else:
>> form =
>> AdditionalCandidateInfo(initial={'first_name':p.first_name,'last_name':p.last_name})
>>
>>
>> -thanks for help
>>
>
> You should be using a ModelForm, and pass the `instance` argument when
> instantiating the form.
>
> Also there's no point querying User: `request.user` is *already* the
> relevant User instance.
> --
> DR.
>
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