Comments on: Useful form tricks in Django

By: justhamade

justhamade — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:25:28 +0000

I was looking all over for something like this, thanks!

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:27:12 +0000

You would only have to change it if you used a CharField with the username for the ‘owner’ field for some god awful reason – it should be a ForeignKey to User

By: Jessy

Jessy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:24:13 +0000

thanks for your post– #2 was also really helpful for me. FWIW, i dont know if this is a change is django implementation or not, but i had to explicitly call my form with request.user.username, since request.user is the entire user object (which still prints as ‘username’ because presumably it has the __unicode__ method defined).

anyway, many thanks!

By: bastula

bastula — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:17:00 +0000

This helped me out immensely! Thanks for posting this. I did not think to override the field in the init method, unlike suggested in the Django docs.

By: darkdigger

darkdigger — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:59:19 +0000

Thank you so much! I was about to manually create a form, and I stumbled upon your page. Tip #2 is a life saver. It should be front and center in the django documentation.

Thank you for your help!

-Arash

By: wehttam84

wehttam84 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:56 +0000

Is it possible then to use this to overwrite a form in the admin?