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'birthday': person.birthday,
'understands': data['tags_flat'].get('understands', ''),
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=== Edit 4: Adding the Form ===
As you saw while adding the birthday field to the view, a form is being used by thew view to capture the data entered by the user. If you look in the edit_person_info_do(request) function, you should notice this line:
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edit_info_form = mysite.profile.forms.EditInfoForm(request.POST, prefix='edit-tags')
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This tells us that in the forms.py file (mysite.profile.'''forms'''.EditInfoForm), there is a class, EditInfoForm, which may need to be changed.
Open up the 'mysite/forms.py' file and search for EditInfoForm. You should notice a line added for 'irc_nick', so go ahead and edit the class to add a new line for the 'birthday' field.
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irc_nick = django.forms.CharField(required=False, widget=django.forms.TextInput())
birthday = django.forms.DateField(required=False, widget=django.forms.DateInput())
understands = django.forms.CharField(required=False, widget=django.forms.Textarea())
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The next things to do are:
* Make the template changes so the new field can be updated and appears in the profile block.▼
▲* Make the template changes so the new field appears in the profile block.
* [[Making schema changes|Write a migration file]] to add that column to our database.
* Write a test.
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