Daniel, thanks for pointing that out, the amended code now does what it was supposed to do. makes perfect sense when you explained it. i already had the slug and user excluded, which is why it allowed me to add them but didn't validate them im guessing.
chained fk's was down to the error message. i thought that my link from survey to venue to userprofile to user might have been the issue. On Mar 27, 2:03 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > On Sunday, March 27, 2011 9:41:53 AM UTC+1, shofty wrote: > > > this is the view code... > > > u = get_object_or_404(UserProfile, user=request.user) > > if request.method == "POST": > > # submitted the add venue form > > venue_form = VenueForm(request.POST) > > venue_form.user = u > > venue_form.slug = slugify(request.POST['name']) > > if venue_form.is_valid(): > > venue_form.save() > > The lines starting with `venue_form.user` and `venue_form.slug` aren't doing > what you intend. They aren't setting the value of the form's fields to > anything - they are just setting arbitrary attributes on the form, which are > ignored. > > What you mean to do is this: > > venue_form = VenueForm(request.POST) > if venue_form.is_valid(): > venue = venue_form.save(commit=False) > venue.user = u > venue.slug = slugify(venue.name) > venue.save() > > To make this work, you'll probably need to add the user and slug fields to > the form's `exclude` tuple. > > I don't know what this has to do with "chained FKs", though. > -- > DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
