Auto populate DateTimeField not working in django forms - django

Question

I am getting below error when I use auto_now_add in my Model Form.
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'auto_now_add'
Here is my model field
modified = models.DateTimeField(blank = True)
Declaration in form. I have seen in one of the posts DateTimeField Not Working
to add initial = datetime.datetime.now for auto populating
import datetime
modified = forms.DateTimeField(initial = datetime.datetime.now) - When I use this no error is coming but datetime was not auto populating.
I have used the same in self.fields['modified'] - Still no use
Any of the above statements were not working. Some one help me on this.
I am pasting all my model class and Model Form here
Model Class
class Users(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
role = models.ForeignKey(RolesConfig, db_column = 'role')
level = models.ForeignKey(LevelConfig, db_column = 'level')
team_name = models.ForeignKey(TeamNamesConfig, db_column = 'team_name')
location = models.ForeignKey(LocationConfig, db_column = 'location')
modified = models.DateTimeField(blank = True)
class Meta:
db_table = u'users'
def __str__(self):
return "%s" % (self.ldap)
def __unicode__(self):
return u'%s' % (self.ldap)
I have modified the field in phpmyadmin
This is my ModelForm
class TargetForm(forms.ModelForm):
modified = forms DateTimeField(initial = datetime.datetime.now)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(MMPodTargetForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['modified'] = forms.DateTimeField(initial = datetime.datetime.now)
class Meta:
model = models.Users
I need to get current date and time autopopulated in the form, when the form loads. Tell me whats wrong in my code.

Answer 1

I think the error is because you're adding the auto_now_add extra argument to your form instead of to your mode. Try changing your model to the following to see if that fixes the problem (untested):
class Users(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
role = models.ForeignKey(RolesConfig, db_column = 'role')
level = models.ForeignKey(LevelConfig, db_column = 'level')
team_name = models.ForeignKey(TeamNamesConfig, db_column = 'team_name')
location = models.ForeignKey(LocationConfig, db_column = 'location')
modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
class Meta:
db_table = u'users'
def __str__(self):
return "%s" % (self.ldap)
def __unicode__(self):
return u'%s' % (self.ldap)