Django - preset foreign key value in form field - django

Question

I'm struggling to figure this out and hoping someone here can help me. I have a model, called "Team", which has a ForeignKey field that corresponds to the page I'm showing the ModelForm on ("Department"). Since it's on the page I want to set the ForeignKey in the backend (View or Form) rather than have the user select it.
Following others examples I set it up so the value would be added in the form portion, but when I submit the form I get the following error (followed by the request.POST print out) in the terminal:
<ul class="errorlist"><li>Department<ul class="errorlist"><li>This field is required.</li></ul></li></ul>
<QueryDict: {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': ['KeEJF7KFr6l9dbkmZWA7u4Qg3eKqqFGcB2qq2AIEmilLP87AySi60ig3hJl6TBS0'], 'title': ['test'], 'description': [''], 'events': [''], 'current_status': [''], 'notes': [''], 'impact': [''], 'timeliness': [''], 'likelihood': [''], 'risk': [''], 'summary': [''], 'documents': ['']}>
FORM:
class TeamFormCreate(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Team
fields = ('department', 'title', 'description', 'events', 'current_status', 'notes', 'impact',
'timeliness', 'likelihood', 'risk', 'summary', 'documents')
VIEW:
#login_required
def new_team(request):
if request.method == "POST":
form = TeamFormCreate(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
team = form.save(commit=False)
team.author = request.user
team.modified_date = timezone.now()
team.save()
return redirect('/dashboard/1')
else:
return redirect('/dashboard/1')
else:
cd_id = request.GET.get('id', None)
form = TeamFormCreate(cd_id)
return render(request, 'app/sidebar_team.html', {'form': form})
MODEL:
class Team(models.Model):
department = models.ForeignKey('MyApp.Department', related_name='teams')
author = models.ForeignKey('auth.User')
modified_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
events = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
current_status = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
notes = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
order = models.IntegerField(default=0)
# icon = models.ImageField()
# Document files
summary = models.FileField(upload_to='team', blank=True, null=True)
documents = models.FileField(upload_to='team', blank=True, null=True)
# Ratings
RATING_CHOICES = [(x, x) for x in range(1, 6)]
impact = models.IntegerField(choices=RATING_CHOICES, blank=True, null=True)
timeliness = models.IntegerField(choices=RATING_CHOICES, blank=True, null=True)
likelihood = models.IntegerField(choices=RATING_CHOICES, blank=True, null=True)
risk = models.IntegerField(choices=RATING_CHOICES, blank=True, null=True)
class Meta:
ordering = ['order']
def __str__(self):
return self.title

Answer 1

I was finally able to get this working by changing my View from a function based view to the following class based view.
# Required Imports
from django.views.generic import CreateView
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
class TeamCreate(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):
model = Team
form_class = TeamFormCreate
template_name = 'app/sidebar_team.html'
def get_initial(self):
pk = self.request.GET.get('id')
return {
'department': pk,
}
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form = TeamFormUpdate(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
team = form.save(commit=False)
team.author = request.user
team.modified_date = timezone.now()
team.save()
return redirect('/dashboard/' + str(team.department.id))
else:
return redirect('/dashboard/' + str(form.department.id))