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Vicente Antonio G. Reyes
Vicente Antonio G. Reyes

Reputation: 654

2 Forms in a django template using cookiecutter-django

I'm creating 2 forms on one template in cookiecutter-django. I have both forms working on a normal django project but when I migrated them to cookiecutter-django, the forms did not work on the user_detail template.

This is the forms.py

class NarrateForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Narrate
        fields = [
            'title',
            'body',
        ]
        exclude = ('status',)


class TranslateForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Translate
        fields = [
            'title',
            'body',
        ]
        exclude = ('status',)

These are the views.py of forms that I have:

class TranslateFormView(FormView):
    form_class = TranslateForm
    template_name = 'user_detail.html'

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        add_translation = self.form_class(request.POST)
        add_narration = NarrateForm()
        if add_translation.is_valid():
            add_translation.save()
            return self.render_to_response(
                self.get_context_data(
                    success=True
                )
            )
        else:
            return self.render_to_response(
                self.get_context_data(
                    add_translation=add_translation,
                )
            )

class NarrateFormView(FormView):
    form_class = NarrateForm
    template_name = 'users/user_detail.html'

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        add_narration = self.form_class(request.POST)
        add_translation = TranslateForm()
        if add_narration.is_valid():
            add_narration.save()
            return self.render_to_response(
                self.get_context_data(
                    success=True
                )
            )
        else:
            return self.render_to_response(
                self.get_context_data(
                    add_narration=add_narration,
                )
            )

Now this is the view of the user_details from cookiecutter-django

class UserDetailView(LoginRequiredMixin, DetailView):

    model = User
    slug_field = "username"
    slug_url_kwarg = "username"


user_detail_view = UserDetailView.as_view()

This is the code on the template which works on the old django project

<form method="POST" action="#">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ add_narration }}
    <button type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Narration">Submit Narration</button>
</form>

<form method="POST" action="#">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ add_translation }}
    <button type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Narration">Submit Narration</button>
</form>

I've been trying to make this work for more than 2 hours already and had no luck.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 272

Answers (2)

Ombwayo Michael
Ombwayo Michael

Reputation: 13

give the submit inputs different names as shown here

<form method="POST" action="#">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ add_narration }}
    <button type="submit" name="narrationsubmit" value="Send Narration">Submit Narration</button>
</form>

<form method="POST" action="#">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ add_translation }}
    <button type="submit" name="transaltionsubmit" value="Send Narration">Submit Narration</button>
</form>

Then handle them as below in your view. 

def handleforms(request):
    if request.method =="POST" and "narrationsubmit" in request.post:
        //process
    elif request.method =="POST" and "transaltionsubmit" in request.post:
        //process

NB: this is for a function based view. format it for a CBV

Upvotes: 1

andhrelja
andhrelja

Reputation: 21

A possible solution could be creating a basic form (extend django.forms.Form) in the forms.py file, manually creating the fields and the modela later on in the views.py file.

Upvotes: 1

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