AKK, the previous response from Daniel Roseman completely answers your
question - the user field is HIDDEN on the form and AUTOMATICALLY
filled in the form handling action.
You should read the Django 'topics', I think.
On Jul 27, 10:52 pm, AKK <andrewkenyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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