Error creating new Project/Task

[Joao-oliveiraf]

Hi! I've been trying to use the Tasks feature to create new Projects and I was getting this error:

The error happens on the method below, on tasks/site/tasksbasemodeladmin.py

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        if "next_step" in form.changed_data:
            if obj.responsible.count() == 1 and obj.responsible.get() != request.user:
                obj.next_step += f" ({request.user})"
            obj.add_to_workflow(f'{obj.next_step}.')

        if "next_step_date" in form.changed_data:
            if (
                    all((obj.next_step_date, obj.due_date))
                    and obj.next_step_date > obj.due_date
            ):
                html_msg = (
                    get_trans_for_user(NEXT_STEP_DATE_WARNING, request.user)
                    + f'<a href="{obj.get_absolute_url()}"> {obj.name}  ({obj.owner})</a>'
                )
                save_message(request.user, html_msg, "INFO")

        super().save_model(request, obj, form, change)

From what I gather, when entering the very first if check, the logic within tries to perform a relational operation of this object with another, but this object we are trying to save doenst quite exists yet, so we cannot access it's "ID" field.

I've created a workaround setting the model to allow blank values, this way I can avoid this condition altogether

    next_step = models.CharField(
        max_length=250,
        verbose_name=_("Next step"),
        help_text=_("Describe briefly what needs to be done in the next step."),
        blank=True,
    )

After making the migrations Project creation was working and the "next step" was defaulting to "Acquainted with the project"

Hope that this helps somehow!

[DjangoCRM]

Thanks for reporting.
The error occurred in the code execution flow of the admin site, which is different from the CRM site.
Typically, projects are created by users on the CRM website. In this case, the fields next_step and next_step_date are not added to the form (but filled in automatically). Therefore, the error does not occur.
Since filling in the fields next_step and next_step_date is important for teamwork, it is better to also exclude adding these fields to the form on the admin site when creating a project (to have them filled in automatically).
This can be done in method tasks.admin.ProjectAdmin.get_fieldsets().