Creating ability on a web page for a user to upload a note against a watchlist item, see code below. Error – (1054, “Unknown column ‘created_by_id’ in ‘field list'”).

I am using ModelForms, all my models are managed=False which is why I am specifying the PK fields in the models. I have run migrations multiple times and it doesnt detect any changes.

Any help to understand why I am getting this error would be very appreciated.

models.py – related portion

class UserNotes(models.Model):
    note_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
    watchlist = models.ForeignKey('Watchlist', on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
    created_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    note = models.TextField(max_length=1000, blank=True, null=True)

    class Meta:
        managed = False
        db_table = 'user_uploads'

    def __str__(self):
        return f"Note title: {self.title}"

views.py – related portion

        if request.method == "POST":
            add_note_form = UserNote(request.POST)
            if add_note_form.is_valid():
                add_note = add_note_form.save(commit=False)
                print(f"add_note: {add_note}")
                add_note.created_by = request.user
                add_note.save()
                print(f"note saved: {add_note_form}")
                return HttpResponseRedirect(request.path_info)

forms.py – related portion

class UserNote(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = UserNotes
        fields = ['title', 'note']
        widgets = {
            "note": forms.Textarea(attrs={'class': 'user_note'})
        }

        labels = {
            'title': 'Title',
            'note': 'Note'
        }

I thought the form only needed to have fields that were to be presented to the html template included in the Meta? Im trying to add the user after .save(commit=False) so that it is added to the other form fields that are being saved through the model.