Django form and User data

Question

I have a model that looks like this:

class Client(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, primary_key=True)
user = models.ForeignKey(User)       

class Contract(models.Model):                   
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100, primary_key=True)
    start_date = models.DateField()
    end_date = models.DateField()
    description = models.TextField()   
    client = models.ForeignKey(Client)  
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

How can i configure a django form so that only clients associated with that user show in the field in the form? My initial thought was this in my forms.py:

    client = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Client.objects.filter(user__username = User.username))

But it didn't work. So how else would I go about it?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Creating a dynamic choice field

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Feb 13 '11 at 23:22

Arnaud

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I'm now getting a UnboundLocalError, local variable 'contractForm' referenced before assignment on this line in my view: contractForm = contractForm(request.user) – Dean Feb 13 '11 at 23:46
Isn't the form class `ContractForm`, with a capital C? It should probably read `contractForm = ContractForm(request.user)`. – Arnaud Feb 13 '11 at 23:50
That got it now on to another error. It's saying that __init__() takes at least 2 non-keyword arguments (1 given) – Dean Feb 13 '11 at 23:58
It's hard to say without seeing the code. Can you edit your question to show us what you have so far? – Arnaud Feb 14 '11 at 00:00
Fixed that error. Now on to why the for isn't rendering. The last error was because I was using forms.ChoiceField instead of forms.ModelChoiceField – Dean Feb 14 '11 at 00:02

Django form and User data

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