Setting some fields to be automatically filled in using CreateVeiw in Django
I'm using Django's CreateView in order to fill a form and I want some of the fields to be automatically filled in, looking for ides how I could that. the fields that I want to be filled in automatically are company, recruiter and date
this is what the views file looks like:
class CreateNewJobForm(CreateView):
model = Job
fields = (
'title', 'company', 'recruiter', 'job_type', 'work_from', 'description', 'city', 'address', 'title_keywords',
'date_created')
template_name = 'create_new_job_form.html'
success_url = '/job_created_successfully'
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.recruiter = self.get_name()
return super(CreateNewJobForm, self).form_valid(form)
and this is what the models file looks like:
class Recruiter(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
company = models.ForeignKey(Company, on_delete=models.RESTRICT, related_name='recruiters')
email = models.EmailField(max_length=255)
phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=15, blank=True)
Automatically assign the value
We can assign a value without showing this in the form. In that case, you remove the company
, recruiter
, and date_created
fields from the fields
, and fill these in in the form_valid
method:
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
class CreateNewJobForm(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Job
fields = ('title', 'job_type', 'work_from', 'description', 'city', 'address', 'title_keywords')
template_name = 'create_new_job_form.html'
success_url = '/job_created_successfully'
def form_valid(self, form):
recruiter = form.instance.recruiter = self.request.user.recruiter
form.instance.company_id = recruiter.company_id
return super().form_valid(form)
for the date_created
, you can work with the auto_now_add=True
parameter [Django-doc] of the DateTimeField
:
class Job(models.Model):
# …
date_created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
Provide an initial value
We can also provide an initial value for the form by overriding the .get_initial()
method [Django-doc]:
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
from django.utils.timezone import now
class CreateNewJobForm(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Job
fields = ('title', 'job_type', 'work_from', 'description', 'city', 'address', 'title_keywords', 'company', 'recruiter', 'date_created')
template_name = 'create_new_job_form.html'
success_url = '/job_created_successfully'
def get_initial(self):
recruiter = self.request.user.recruiter
return {
'recruiter': recruiter,
'company': recruiter.company,
'date_created': now()
}
Something like that should work just fine :
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.user = self.request.user # assuming you want the current login user to be set to the user
return super(CreateNewJobForm, self).form_valid(form)
It is just an example but in short you can access attributes of your model by accessing the instance of your form like that form.instance.yourfield