Hi Karen, I did finally get this figured out, but decided not to implement the functionality after all :)
Thanks, Brandon On Dec 5, 7:47 am, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > I want to allow users to change their username in a non-admin form. I > > have a login form already working, and I can successfully show user > > information. I have granted the change user permission to the user > > that is logged in. > > > When I pull in the UserChangeForm from contrib.auth.forms and hand it > > a user instance, the username field is populated correctly. > > > So, I have a simple view action (pseudo code): > > > if request.method == 'POST': > > form = UserChangeForm(data=request.POST) > > if form.is_valid(): > > form.save() > > > but I can never get the form to validate. I can get it to fail > > correctly, but even if I put in a value that I know isn't currently in > > use, the form will still not validate. I tried making a custom form to > > update the username property and do the same validation, just in my > > own form instance, but that didn't work either. The new username > > property wasn't saving to the database. > > > Does anyone have any experience with this form from auth? Any help > > appreciated! > > No, but I'm not sure this has anything to do specifically with auth an its > models/forms. You aren't passing in the user instance when you populate the > form with the POST data. You need to, just as you did when creating the > form for the GET request. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
