Django Hidden Foreign Key in form using Meta model

Question

I am working on a cookbook website using django and have run into a problem with a foreign key field in my form the problem is that when i create my recipe i need to have a foreign key pointing to the cookbook that created this recipe but I don't want the user creating the recipe to see the original_cookbook field (they shouldn't have to) I believe I need to use a widget (HiddenInput) but am I getting confused with the examples given on other sites. Also my friend mentioned something about setting an initial value in the original_cookbook view tl;dr: I want to point the fk to the users cookbook while keeping the original_cookbook field hidden. relevant code: form: ``` class RecipeForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = Recipe ``` model: ``` class Recipe(models.Model): def __unicode__(self): return self.name original_cookbook = models.ForeignKey(Cookbook) #cookbooks = models.ManyToManyField('Cookbook', related_name = 'recipes') name = models.CharField(max_length=200) author = models…

Accepted Answer

Add `exclude = ('original_cookbook',)` to your form's `Meta` class.

Then, in your `if form.is_valid()` code, do something like:

```
....
recipe = form.save(commit=False)
recipe.original_cookbook = whatever_that_is
recipe.save()
...
```

Django Hidden Foreign Key in form using Meta model

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