Making A Field Read Only

[Ray Z]

Hey Everyone,

 Im very new to django and im trying to figure out how to make a field on a forum read only. The field is my date created field that has a automatic timestamp. The form structure im using is a modelform  . Here is my code of my forms.py . I appreciate the help. Thank you everyone !

from django import forms

from django.forms import ModelForm

from .models import StudentCheck

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

class NewStudentForm(forms.ModelForm):

     class Meta:

        model = StudentCheck

        fields = '__all__'  

        labels = {'date_created':_('Date Created'), 'startdate':_('Start Date'), 'esy':_('ESY')}

models.py

from django.db import models

from django.utils import timezone

from django.forms import ModelForm

# Create your models here.

class StudentCheck (models.Model):

    startdate = models.DateField(max_length= 10 )  

    esy = models.BooleanField(default = False)

    ten_month_school_year = models.BooleanField(default= False)

    other = models.BooleanField(default = False)

    intakedate = models.DateField(max_length=10)

    grade = models.CharField(max_length=2)

    date_created = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

    firstname = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    lastname = models.CharField(max_length=60)

    address = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    city = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    state = models.CharField(max_length=30)

    zipcode = models.CharField(max_length=5)

    parent_one_name = models.CharField(max_length= 100)

    parent_one_phone = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    parent_one_email = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    parent_two_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    parent_two_phone = models.CharField(max_length=12)

    parent_two_email = models.CharField(max_length=100)

        

    def __str__(self):

        return self.lastname

class StudentCheckForm (ModelForm):

    class Meta:

         model = StudentCheck

         fields = '__all__'

[Derek]

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/models/fields/#editable