Are you trying to get first and last names from the User model? That
would be either self.user.first_name and self.user.last_name (within
model) or student.user.first_name and student.user.last_name (outside
of model). Hope that helps a bit.
On May 4, 8:13 pm, Jonathan Lukens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe are wanting to populate that field automatically and you are
> looking for a custom save() method? This would do the trick:
> ...
> def save(self):
> self.first_name = self.user.first_name
> super(Student, self).save()
>
> You will also want to add blank=True or editable=False to the
> CharField arguments, probably the latter, since if you are doing this
> the the prepopulation from the user.first_name field is going to
> override anything that is input in a form anyway...
>
> On May 4, 6:18 pm, chiefmoamba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am having a problem getting data from the user model in to my model
> > (below). I can get the usernames easy enough using "user =
> > models.ForeignKey(User)", but how then do I get the first_name &
> > last_name in to my model from the user model?
>
> > Any ideas appreciated,
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Ed
>
> > class Student(models.Model):
> > user = models.ForeignKey(User)
> > first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=40)
> > age = models.IntegerField()
> > location = models.CharField(maxlength=40)
>
> > def __str__(self):
> > return self.first_name
>
> > class Admin:
> > list_display = ('user', 'age', 'location',)
> > list_filter = ('user', 'location',)
> > ordering = ('-user',)
> > search_fields = ('user',)
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