Trying to make an employee clock-in/clock-out app...

[Alexander Joseph]

I'm trying to make an employee clock-in/clock-out app but running into some problems. 

Here is my model...

class ClockPunch(models.Model):

    employee = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)

    date = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)

    punched_in = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    punch_in_time = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)

    punch_in_ip = models.GenericIPAddressField(blank=True, null=True)

    punched_out = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    punch_out_time = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)

    punch_out_ip = models.GenericIPAddressField(blank=True, null=True)

    hours_for_the_day = models.DecimalField(max_digits=4, decimal_places=2, default="0.00", blank=True, null=True)

    class Meta:

        ordering = ['date', ]

    def __str__(self):

        return self.pk

Here are my 2 views (one for punching in and one for punching out...

class ClockPunchInView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):

    context_object_name = "clock_punch"

    fields = ['punch_in_time', 'punched_in',]

    model = ClockPunch

    template_name = 'pages/layout.html'

    success_url = '/'

    def form_valid(self, form):

        object = form.save(commit=False)

        object.employee = self.request.user

        object.punch_in_time = timezone.now()

        object.punched_in = True

        object.save()

        return super(ClockPunchInView, self).form_valid(form)

class ClockPunchOutView(LoginRequiredMixin, CreateView):

    context_object_name = "clock_punch"

    model = ClockPunch

    fields = ['punch_out_time', 'punched_out',]

    #form_class = PunchOutForm

    template_name = 'pages/layout.html'

    success_url = '/'

    def form_valid(self, form):

        object = form.save(commit=False)

        last_entry = ClockPunch.objects.filter(employee=self.request.user).order_by("-punch_in_time").first()

        if last_entry.punched_in:

            object.employee = self.request.user

            object.punch_out_time = timezone.now()

            object.punched_out = True

            object.save()

            return super(ClockPunchOutView, self).form_valid(form)

        else:

            return redirect('/')

and my form is just at the top of my navbar...

<form method='POST' action='{% url 'administration:clock_in' %}'>

      {% csrf_token %}

      <input type="submit" style="margin-right:6px;" type="button" class="btn btn-success" value="Clock-in"></button>

    </form>

    <form method='POST' action='{% url 'administration:clock_out' %}'>

      {% csrf_token %}

      <input type="submit" style="margin-right:6px;" type="button" class="btn btn-danger" value="Clock-out"></button>

    </form>

First of all, is there a better way to go about this? I had problems making the ClockPunchOutView an update view where I update the last entry because it wanted a pk for the record to update passed to it through the URL, so I guess I'll just make every entry a new entry even though entries for clocking/punching out will have a null value in all the punch-in/clock-in fields and vice versa.

One problem I'm running into is in my ClockPunchOutView form_valid method I'm trying to get the last entry so I know whether the user is punched-in however it acts as if last_entry.punched_in is not True, even though it is True. There must be a problem somewhere in my

last_entry = ClockPunch.objects.filter(employee=self.request.user).order_by("-punch_in_time").first()

Thanks for any help you can give

[mazz ahmed]

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/models/querysets/

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