Pass current user to initial for CreateView in Django

Question

In my project I have User model from standard auth Django model and the Todo model. User can have many Todo.

When signed in user c

Answer 1

You need to use the form_valid method instead of get_initial. Something like this:

def form_valid(self, form):
    form.instance.user = self.request.user
    return super(TodoView, self).form_valid(form)

I have never used get_initial, but I guess it doesn't do anything because you don't include the user field. That wouldn't be useful anyway, because you don't want the user to be able to change the value.