Django admin: How to allow users to edit the profile?

Question 1

Your code

user = User.objects.get(username=request.user)
//equivalent to ex. (jay=1)

Maybe you should change this line to

user = User.objects.get(username=request.user.username)

or

user = User.objects.get(pk=request.user.id)

Based in your code you define fields that are not in the User model

user = User.objects.get(username= request.user)
user.name=request.POST.get('name')
user.address=request.POST.get('address') <-----
user.designation=request.POST.get('designation') <----                        
user.email=request.POST.get('email') 
user.role=request.POST.get('role') <-----
user.project=request.POST.get('project') <----                       
user.task=request.POST.get('task') <-----
user.save()

I don't know where these fields came from. If you wish to save those information, you must define a separate model for that fields.

UPDATE:

@login_required
def edit_profile(request):
    if request.POST:
        user = User.objects.get(pk=request.user.id)
        user.username=request.POST.get('user')                    
        user.email=request.POST.get('email') 
        user.save()

        employee = Employee.objects.get(user=request.user)
        employee.name=request.POST.get('name')
        employee.address=request.POST.get('address')
        employee.designation=request.POST.get('designation')                        
        employee.role=request.POST.get('role')
        employee.project=request.POST.get('project')                        
        employee.task=request.POST.get('task')
        employee.save()

        return HttpResponseRedirect('/view_profile/')            

    user_profile = request.user.get_profile()
    return render_to_response('edit_profile.html',{
        'profile':user_profile 
    },context_instance=RequestContext(request))


<form action="." method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}    
    User:
    <input type="text" name="user" value="{{ profile.user.username}}" /><br />
    Name:
    <input type="text" name="name" value="{{ profile.name}}" /><br />

    Address:
    <input type="text" name="address" value="{{ profile.address}}" /><br />
    Designation:
    <input type="text" name="designation" value="{{ profile.designation}}" /><br />

    Email:
    <input type="text" name="email" value="{{ profile.email}}" /><br />
    Role:
    <input type="text" name="role" value="{{ profile.role}}" /><br />

    Project:
    <input type="text" name="project" value="{{ profile.project}}" /><br />
    Task:
    <input type="text" name="task" value="{{ profile.task}}" /><br />

    <input type="submit" value="Save Changes" name="save" />
    <input type="reset" value="Cancel" name="cancel" />
    <br/>
</form>

That's the way to save it but sorry I don't know your Employee model fields exactly so I just guess on it based on the variables you use.

Question 2

If I remember correctly, request.user is an instance of the Django model for the user who made the request, so the line...

user = User.objects.get(username= request.user)

...could simply be...

user = request.user

...but I could be wrong.

Update

It occurs to me that, if the original version of the code, which contained the line...

user = User.objects.get(username= request.user)

...didn't raise an exception, then it's possible it's not even being executed. If you're running from the Django built-in runserver command, try printing out the contents of the request variable at the top of the function.

Question 3

class ProfileView(UpdateView):
    model = User
    template_name = 'profile.html'
    slug_url_kwarg = 'username'
    slug_field = 'username'

    def get_object(self, queryset=None):
        obj = super(ProfileView, self).get_object(queryset)
        if not self.request.user or self.request.user.pk != obj.pk:
            raise Http404('nope')
        return obj

url route:

url(r'profileedit/(?P<username>[a-z-\d-]+)/$', ProfileView.as_view(), name='profile_view')

and template is obvious, I guess

Question 4

you can create a new form like this (myExample):

class userForm(ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Usuario
        fields = ['userName','name', 'lastName', 'email', 'description', 'image']}

Then in your views file and your method add the Form with an Object Instance Like:

myUser = User.objects.get(id=request.session['userId'])
form = userForm(request.POST, instance=myUser)

now you can pass this form with the fields full