I am trying to work on a django-based project/website that logs who took out our dogs last. I am very new to django so please bear with lack of knowledge in the field. I currently have my project set up so that I have models based on users/family members, the families' dogs, posts (logs of when and who took out the dogs), and actions, which is a child class that uses the dog and post models as foreign keys to see if the dogs peed and or pooped when they were taken out. The part that I am stuck on is trying to figure out how I create the post form. Since we have two dogs I need the form/post page to display a set of check boxes (for peeing and pooping actions) for each dog model that exists. While I can successfully display one action set, I run into the difficulty of trying to display the correct number of action sets and also to post the set of actions and the post itself. I have been trying to work with the formset_factory function but I am confused as to how I get it to function properly. Can anyone help? I have been stuck on this problem for quite a while and any support would be greatly appreciated.
models.py:
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.urls import reverse
class Dog(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length = 20)
class Post(models.Model):
walker = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete = models.CASCADE)
time_posted = models.DateTimeField(default = timezone.now)
issues = models.TextField(max_length = 300)
class Action(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete = models.CASCADE)
dog = models.ForeignKey(Dog, on_delete = models.CASCADE)
peed = models.BooleanField(default = False)
pooped = models.BooleanField(default = False)
forms.py:
from django import forms
from django.forms import formset_factory
from dog_log_app.models import *
class Log_Form(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = ("issues",)
class Action_Form(forms.Form):
peed = forms.BooleanField(initial = False, required = False)
pooped = forms.BooleanField(initial = False, required = False)
views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.forms import formset_factory, modelformset_factory
from .models import Post, Dog, Action
from dog_log_app.forms import *
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
def home(request):
context = {
'posts': Post.objects.all().order_by('-time_posted'),
'actions': Action.objects.all(),
'dogs': Dog.objects.all()
}
return render(request, 'dog_log_app/home.html', context)
def post(request):
form_post = Log_Form(request.POST or None)
form_actions = modelformset_factory(Action, fields = ('peed', 'pooped'), extra = Dog.objects.count())
if request.method == 'POST':
form_post = Log_Form(request.POST)
if form_post.is_valid() and form_actions.is_valid():
post_save = form_post.save(commit = False)
post_save.walker = request.user
post_save.save()
form_actions.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('..')
context = {
'post': form_post,
'action': formset_factory(Action_Form, extra = Dog.objects.count()),
'dogs': Dog.objects.all()
}
return render(request, 'dog_log_app/post_form.html', context)
post_form.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Post</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
<fieldset>
<legend>Create Post</legend>
<h3>{{dogs.name}}</h3>
<p>{{action.as_p}}</p>
<p>{{post.as_p}}</p>
</fieldset>
<div>
<button type="submit" value="Ok">Post</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
what you can try would be to use ajax to add the amount you want, what I usually do is use the form:
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django.forms.models import inlineformset_factory
class PostForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = (
'issues',
)
class ActionForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Action
fields = (
'peed', 'pooped'
)
ActionFormSet = inlineformset_factory(
Post, Action, form=ActionForm,
fields = ['peed', 'pooped'], extra=1, can_delete=True,
)
With the forms created, we move on to the views, which will be class-based for convenience:
from django.db import transaction
from django.views.generic import CreateView, UpdateView
from .models import Post
from .forms import PostForm, ActionFormSet
class PostCreateView(CreateView):
template_name = 'your template'
form_class = PostForm
success_url = reverse_lazy('your url')
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
data = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
if self.request.POST:
data['formset'] = ActionFormSet(self.request.POST)
else:
data['formset'] = ActionFormSet()
return data
def form_valid(self, form):
context = self.get_context_data()
formset = context['formset']
with transaction.atomic():
self.object = form.save()
if formset.is_valid():
formset.instance = self.object
formset.instance.walker = self.request.user
formset.save()
return super().form_valid(form)
class PostUpdateView(UpdateView):
template_name = 'your template'
form_class = PostForm
model = Post
success_url = reverse_lazy('your url')
def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
data = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
if self.request.POST:
data['formset'] = ActionFormSet(
self.request.POST, instance=self.object)
else:
data['formset'] = ActionFormSet(instance=self.object)
return data
def form_valid(self, form):
context = self.get_context_data()
formset = context['formset']
with transaction.atomic():
self.object = form.save()
if formset.is_valid():
formset.instance = self.object
formset.save()
return super().form_valid(form)
and to display the information you can use a jquery library for the dynamic information on saving: enter link description here With that the configuration is much easier
An example template would be:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
<div class="container">
<div class="card">
<div class="card-content">
<h2>Agregar Proyecto</h2>
<div class="col-md-4">
<form id="form-container" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<h2>Actions</h2>
<table>
{{ formset.management_form }}
{% for form in formset %}
{% if forloop.first %}
<thead>
<tr>
{% for field in form.visible_fields %}
<th>{{ field.label|capfirst }}</th>
{% endfor %}
</tr>
</thead>
{% endif %}
<tr id="projects_data">
{% for field in form.visible_fields %}
<td>
{# Include the hidden fields in the form #}
{% if forloop.first %}
{% for hidden in form.hidden_fields %}
{{ hidden }}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{{ field.errors.as_ul }}
{{ field }}
</td>
{% endfor %}
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">{{ message }}</button>
<a href="{{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }}" class="btn btn-danger">Cancel</a>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block script %}
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('#projects_data').formset({
prefix: '{{ formset.prefix }}',
addText: 'create',
deleteText: 'remove',
});
})
</script>
{% endblock %}
and in that way add data dynamically.
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