django form use excluded field - django

Question

with django 1.5.1 I try to use the django form for one of my models.
I dont want to add the "user" field (Foreignkey) somewhere in the code instead of letting the user deceide whoes new character it is.
My Code:
Model:
class Character(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User)
creation = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, verbose_name='Creation Date')
name = models.CharField(max_length=32)
portrait = models.ForeignKey(Portrait)
faction = models.ForeignKey(Faction)
origin = models.ForeignKey(Origin)
The form:
class CreateCharacterForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Character
fields = ['name', 'portrait', 'faction', 'origin']
The view:
def create_character(request, user_id):
user = User.objects.get(id=user_id)
if request.POST:
new_char_form = CreateCharacterForm(request.POST)
if new_char_form.is_valid():
new_char_form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('%s/characters/' % user_id)
else:
return render_to_response('create.html',
{'user': user, 'create_char':new_char_form},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
create_char = CreateCharacterForm
return render_to_response('create.html',
{'user': user, 'create_char': create_char},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
I have tried to use a instance to incluse the userid already. i've tried to save the userid to the form before saving it, or changing the save() from my form.
I keep getting the error that character.user cant be null
I have to tell that im pretty new to django and im sure one way or another it should be possible
Can someone please help me out?

Answer 1

Its explained well in document model form selecting fields to use
You have to do something like this in your view
...
if request.POST:
new_char_form = CreateCharacterForm(request.POST)
if new_char_form.is_valid():
#save form with commit=False
new_char_obj = new_char_form.save(commit=False)
#set user and save
new_char_obj.user = user
new_char_obj.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('%s/characters/' % user_id)
else:
...