Thanks, that will work for time.
I want the username value to be added without the user typing it in
because they can type anything and its a bit silly to get them
to type in there username everytime they want to comment. So i want
the {{ user.username }} value to be automatically detected and entered
but i don't know if you can do this with a model based form or if you
have to manually create it.
On 27 July, 12:35, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 12:15 am, AKK <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have a form based on a model which allows users to add comment.
> > A comment is made up of the comment is about, the body, the date and
> > time and also who made the comment.
>
> > I am mainly interested in the datetime and user fields. What i would
> > like to know is how i can automatically have these entered. For the
> > username i know if i created the form myself i could have a hidden
> > field with the value of {{ user.username }}. I'm not sure how i could
> > automatically specify the time. But since the form is created
> > automatically i could do with some help.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Andrew
>
> If you want values to be entered without user interaction, then
> there's no point in having them in the form at all. Use the 'exclude'
> property in the form's Meta class to exclude user, date and time. Then
> in your view, when you save the form use commit=False, then add the
> values you want to the model instance before saving.
>
> ...
> if form.is_valid():
> instance = form.save(commit=False)
> instance.user = request.user
> instance.datetime = datetime.datetime.now()
> instance.save()
>
> Alternatively, you might want to use the auto_now_add parameter in the
> model definition for the datetime field.
> --
> DR
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