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)

CodePudding user response：

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

CodePudding user response：

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()
        }