Passing Value Along With Form In Post Data In Django

When I render the form in HTML, I use this view. the patient_id is used to denote what patient the check in is for and for name display and such. def Checkin(request, patient_id):

Solution 1:

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

{% block content %}

<divclass="container"><h1>Patient Checkin</h1><h2>{{patient.first_name}} {{patient.last_name}}</h2></div><divclass="container"><formaction="{% url 'patientRecords:checkinsubmit' %}"method="POST"class="form"><inputtype="hidden"name="patient_id"value="{{patient.patient_id}}" />
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% bootstrap_form form %}
    {% buttons %}
        <buttontype="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.

Solution 2:

Example

<formmethod="post"action = "{% url 'user_search_from_group' %}"><divclass="module-option clearfix"><divclass="input-append pull-left"><inputtype="hidden"name="groupname"value="{{ gpname }}" />
                {% csrf_token %}
                <inputtype="text"class="span3"placeholder="Filter by name"id="username3"name="username3"required><buttontype="submit"class="btn"name="submit"><iclass="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