Question

I want to make a view where the user can change the attributes for his User object: first_name, last_name and email address. Django has a built in UserCreationForm for creating users. I already have an extended version that also includes email, first_name and last_name. Now I am trying to extend that one to not include the password and username.

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
class ExtendedUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'password1', 'password2', 
                  'email', "first_name", 'last_name' )

class UserEditForm(ExtendedUserCreationForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        exclude = ('username', 'password1', 'password2')

The UserEditForm I am looking for will of course not be able to create new instances, but it will only be used to edit existing instances:

form = UserEditForm(instance=request.user)

However, the username field and password fields are still shown. How can I exclude these?

Answer 1

It’s not a bad idea to have a look at a class you subclass. password1 and password2 fields are defined in form directly, not in the model. So exclude and fields will have no effect on them. Just make your own ModelForm as @MatthewSchinckel suggests.