[Answered ]-Django User Update Form and View

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There’s nothing specific to users here. You have two problems: the first is because of your urls. Your profile view does not end in a slash, so the form’s action of “.” sends it to the parent, “/dashboard”, and it does not go through the processing code at all.

url(r'/dashboard/profile/$'...)

Secondly, the model will not be updated because you have not called the form’s valdation method.

if request.method == 'POST':
    form = profileForm(data=request.POST, instance=request.user)
    if form.is_valid():
        form.save()
        return redirect('somewhere')

Note there is no reason to use the commit=False stuff here; the instance is already the user.

👤Daniel Roseman

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I tried with abstract user and it is working perfectly. First of all I created an app named dashboard. Then overwrite default User model.

Now Update dashboard app – models.py, urls.py, forms.py and views.py

In models.py

class User(AbstractUser):    
    middle_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True, null=True)
    sdl_service_code = models.CharField(choices=SDL_CHOICES, max_length=5)
    account = models.CharField(choices=ACCOUNT_CHOICES, max_length=5)

I made This new User model (in dashboard app) django default User model by updating setting file as below

In settings.py

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'dashboard.User'

In urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('users', ListUserView.as_view(), name='users'),
    path('users/add/', CreateUserView.as_view(), name='users-add'),
    path('users/<int:pk>/', UpdateUserView.as_view(), name='users-edit'),
    )
]

In forms.py

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):            
        middle_name = forms.CharField(required=False, max_length=50)
        password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())
        about_company = form.CharField(required=False, max_length=50)

        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            super(UserForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
            for field in iter(self.fields):
                self.fields[field].widget.attrs.update({
                    'class': 'form-control',
                    'placeholder': '{}'.format(field).replace("_", ' ').capitalize(),

                })

            self.fields['email'].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = 'abc@xyz.com'
            self.fields['email'].required = True
            self.fields['first_name'].required = True
            self.fields['last_name'].required = True
            self.fields['password'].required = True

            if self.instance.pk:
                self.fields['username'].required = False
                self.fields['username'].widget.attrs['readonly'] = True
                self.fields['email'].required = False
                self.fields['email'].widget.attrs['readonly'] = True
                self.fields['password'].widget.attrs['readonly'] = True
                self.fields['password'].required = False

        def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
            self.date_joined = date.today()
            super(UserForm, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
            return self

        class Meta:
            model = User
            fields = '__all__'
            exclude = ('date_joined',)

In views.py

from dashboard.models import User
from django.views.generic import ListView, DetailView, CreateView, UpdateView
from dashboard.forms import UserForm

class CreateUserView(CreateView):
    model = User
    template_name = 'dashboard/user_add.html'
    form_class = UserForm

    def get_success_url(self):
        return '/users'

class UpdateUserView(UpdateView):
    model = User
    form_class = UserForm
    template_name = 'dashboard/user_add.html'
    success_url = '/users'

class ListUserView(ListView):
    model = User
    template_name = 'dashboard/user_list.html'
👤Nids Barthwal

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