Example
If we have a Model as following,
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserModuleProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User)
expired = models.DateTimeField()
admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
employee_id = models.CharField(max_length=50)
organisation_name = models.ForeignKey('Organizations', on_delete=models.PROTECT)
country = models.CharField(max_length=100)
position = models.CharField(max_length=100)
def __str__(self):
return self.user
And a model form which uses this model as following,
from .models import UserModuleProfile, from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django import forms
class UserProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
admin = forms.BooleanField(label="Make this User Admin",widget=forms.CheckboxInput(),required=False)
employee_id = forms.CharField(label="Employee Id ")
organisation_name = forms.ModelChoiceField(label='Organisation Name',required=True,queryset=Organizations.objects.all(),empty_label="Select an Organization")
country = forms.CharField(label="Country")
position = forms.CharField(label="Position")
class Meta:
model = UserModuleProfile
fields = ('admin','employee_id','organisation_name','country','position',)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
admin_check = kwargs.pop('admin_check', False)
super(UserProfileForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
if not admin_check:
del self.fields['admin']
Notice that below the Meta class in form I added a init function which we can use while initializing the form from views.py to delete a form field (or some other actions). I will explain this later.
So This form can be used by for user registration purposes and we want all the fields defined in the Meta class of the form. But what if we want to use the same form when we edit the user but when we do we don't want to show the admin field of the form?
We can simply send an additional argument when we initialize the form based on some logic and delete the admin field from backend.
def edit_profile(request,user_id):
context = RequestContext(request)
user = get_object_or_404(User, id=user_id)
profile = get_object_or_404(UserModuleProfile, user_id=user_id)
admin_check = False
if request.user.is_superuser:
admin_check = True
# If it's a HTTP POST, we're interested in processing form data.
if request.method == 'POST':
# Attempt to grab information from the raw form information.
profile_form = UserProfileForm(data=request.POST,instance=profile,admin_check=admin_check)
# If the form is valid...
if profile_form.is_valid():
form_bool = request.POST.get("admin", "xxx")
if form_bool == "xxx":
form_bool_value = False
else:
form_bool_value = True
profile = profile_form.save(commit=False)
profile.user = user
profile.admin = form_bool_value
profile.save()
edited = True
else:
print profile_form.errors
# Not a HTTP POST, so we render our form using ModelForm instance.
# These forms will be blank, ready for user input.
else:
profile_form = UserProfileForm(instance = profile,admin_check=admin_check)
return render_to_response(
'usermodule/edit_user.html',
{'id':user_id, 'profile_form': profile_form, 'edited': edited, 'user':user},
context)
As you can see I have shown here a simple edit example using the form we created earlier. Notice when I initialized the form i passed an additional admin_check variable which contains either True or False.
profile_form = UserProfileForm(instance = profile,admin_check=admin_check)
Now If you notice the form we wrote earlier you can see that in the init we try to catch the admin_check param that we pass from here. If the value is False we simply delete the admin Field from the form and use it. And Since this is a model form admin field could not be null in the model we simply check if the form post had admin field in the form post, if not we set it to False in the view code in following code of the view.
form_bool = request.POST.get("admin", "xxx")
if form_bool == "xxx":
form_bool_value = False
else:
form_bool_value = True
