Pure Django Form Tying User To Submitted Form And View - django

Question

I am unsure how to tie a logged in user to a submitted form using regular Django forms. I see alot of examples using ModelForms but none (that I can tell) without using the ModelForms. In my forms.py im having a hard time figuring out how to add the author field. I cannot just add author = forms.ForeignKey or something like that. Then somehow in my view i need to call the author field to be saved into the database (my below example is my best guess and probably not right with the "tenant_form.author = request.user").
I have a model that looks like this and has a user Foreignkey setup:
class AppyModel(models.Model):
author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
date_time_form_filled = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
I have a forms.py:
class TenantForm(forms.Form):
first_name = forms.CharField(required=False, label='First Name')
last_name = forms.CharField(required=False, label='Last Name')
I have a views.py
#login_required
def tenant_create_form_view(request):
tenant_form = TenantForm()
if request.method == 'POST':
tenant_form.author = request.user
tenant_form = TenantForm(request.POST)
if tenant_form.is_valid():
print(tenant_form.cleaned_data)
AppyModel.objects.create(**tenant_form.cleaned_data)
else:
print(tenant_form.errors)
context = {
'form': tenant_form
}
return render(request, 'fill_appy.html', context)

Answer 1

You should add author when the form is valid,
tenant_form = TenantForm()
if request.method == 'POST':
tenant_form = TenantForm(request.POST)
if tenant_form.is_valid():
obj = tenant_form.save(commit=False)
obj.author = request.user #add author here
obj.save()
# .. rest of code