Django, adding excluded properties to the submitted modelform

Question

I\'ve a modelform and I excluded two fields, the create_date and the created_by fields. Now I get the \"Not Null\" error when using the save()

Answer 1

Since you have excluded the fields created_by and create_date in your form, trying to assign them through form.cleaned_data does not make any sense.

Here is what you can do:

If you have a view, you can simply use form.save(commit=False) and then set the value of created_by

def my_view(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = LocationForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            obj = form.save(commit=False)
            obj.created_by = request.user
            obj.save()
        ...
        ...

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If you are using the Admin, you can override the save_model() method to get the desired result.

class LocationAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        obj.created_by = request.user
        obj.save()