Django - submit button value - django

Question

I'm trying to send the value of a button when a form is submitted using the POST method.
{% block content %}
<div class="modal-dialog modal-lg" role="document">
<form action="" method="post" id="news-create" class="form">{% csrf_token %}
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
<span aria-hidden="true">×</span>
<span class="sr-only">Close</span>
</button>
<h4 class="modal-title">Add News</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
{{ form }}
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" name="save" value="Save" />
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" name="save_new" value="Save as new" />
</div>
</div><!-- /.modal-content -->
</form>
</div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->
<script>
var form_options = { target: '#modal', success: function(response) {} };
$('#news-create').ajaxForm(form_options);
</script>
{% endblock content %}
But when I print the QueryDict request.POST inside the file view.py the value of the button is not present.
How can I get the value? I need to perform different action based on the button clicked.
At the moment I'm using a bootstrap modal view to render a form (UpdateView) based on a model.
Thanks for the support

Answer 1

To send the value of the submit button the name attribute of that button should be "submit".
So try it like this:
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" name="submit" value="Save" />
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" name="submit" value="Save as new" />
Then you can do request.POST.get('submit') on your views to get the value of the button which was clicked.
You can also use checkbox for this kinds of things.