user = User.objects.get(username__exact='bob') Works fine for me, you may want to try get since it will throw an exception if there is no matching user. Then you know the problem is elsewhere.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:30 AM, kamilski81 <kamilsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to save a form by doing the following: > > #Goal has a User ForeignKey (django.contrib.auth.models.User) > --------- > class GoalForm(ModelForm): > class Meta: > model = Goal > ----------- > class Goal(models.Model): > user = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False) > ---------- > view.py => > from django.contrib.auth.models import User > . > . > QuerySetUser = User.objects.filter(username__icontains='myusername') > goal = Goal(user=QuerySetUser[0]) > form = GoalForm(request.POST, goal) > . > But i'm getting the error : > (1048, "Column 'user_id' cannot be null") > > Any idea how I can pull a user from the database and save a goal? Or > set the user_id? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- "The UNIX system has a command, nice ... in order to be nice to the other users. Nobody ever uses it." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
