[Django]-Passing value along with form in POST data in Django

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You should be able to simply add a hidden input to your form to capture the patient ID:

{% block content %}

<div class="container">
  <h1>Patient Checkin</h1>
  <h2>{{patient.first_name}} {{patient.last_name}}</h2>
</div>
<div class="container">
  <form  action="{% url 'patientRecords:checkinsubmit' %}" method="POST" class="form">
    <input type="hidden" name="patient_id" value="{{patient.patient_id}}" />
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% bootstrap_form form %}
    {% buttons %}
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
    {% endbuttons %}
  </form>
</div>

{% endblock %}

(Note this assumes that the patient ID is accessible from the patient_id property of the patient object.)

Then, in your CheckinSubmit method, you can access this value via request.POST.get('patient_id')

Alternatively, it appears that your check in form loads with the patient ID in the URL. In your CheckinSubmit method, you should be able to access this URL through the request.META.HTTP_REFERER property. You could then parse the URL (e.g., using request.META.HTTP_REFERER.split('/')[len(request.META.HTTP_REFERER.split('/')) - 1] to pull out the patient ID.

👤nb1987

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Example

<form method="post" action = "{% url 'user_search_from_group' %}"> 
      <div class="module-option clearfix">
           <div class="input-append pull-left">
                <input type="hidden" name="groupname" value="{{ gpname }}" />
                {% csrf_token %}
                <input type="text" class="span3" placeholder="Filter by name" id="username3" name="username3" required>
                 <button type="submit" class="btn" name="submit">
                         <i class="icon-search"></i>
                 </button>
           </div>
      </div>
</form>

Here a hidden field is used to pass a value along form.

def user_search_from_group(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        username3 = request.POST.get('username3')
        gname = request.POST.get('groupname')

Using request we are use the value inside view

👤Tono Kuriakose

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