[Django]-Django-Userena: adding extra non-null fields to a user's profile

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UserProfile is created after the User is saved by a post_save signal. Even if you override it with your own signal, you won’t have access to the form data from there.

The easiest solution is to just allow start_year to be NULL. It’s not necessary to enforce this at the database level, and you can make the field required in all forms either way:

start_year = models.IntegerField(max_length=4, blank=False, null=True)

Your custom form already enforces that the field is required, so you’re done.

UPDATE (from comment)

Custom form, yes, but you can still use a ModelForm:

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['start_year'].required = True

UPDATE (again)

Actually, I didn’t think before my last update. I put blank=False on the start_year field in my example. That will force that the field is required in all ModelForms by default. You don’t need a custom ModelForm at all. However, I left the previous update for posterity.

👤Chris Pratt

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