How to send new form fields with data from Django views.py?

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I am adding a new field named "user" to the "order" model. I did make migrations. (Bonus question is: why in the sql3db column "user_id" was made, instead of "user"? But ok, I change form.fields['user'] to form.fields['user_id'], as the machine wants...)

I remove unneeded fields from the form in forms.py, and I try to add this fields in views.py (because I don't know how to send "user" to the forms.py, and I think it more secure like this).

And as I can understand - my new fields is absent for "order", when I use form.save(). This field can't be null by design.

You should use user everywhere, not user_id. The "_id" suffix is used to access the raw value of the ForeignKey, usually the id of the related object, but you rarely need to access this — Iain Shelvington
– Iain Shelvington, Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 12:46

willeM_ Van Onsem · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-20 12:46:38Z

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Your form has no user field, hence that will not work. What you can do is alter the object wrapped in the form with:

if form.is_valid():
    form.instance.user = request.user
    form.instance.email = request.user.email
    order = form.save()

answered Oct 20, 2021 at 12:46

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