I am working on a django project with complex forms. In one of my form fields I need following functionality...... Its the text field. As the user starts typing the value the suggestions from existing database should appear in dropdown. Can anyone help me out with this ? Just similar to autocomplete but able to add new values.
This is going to be something in the JQuery/AJAX side of things, not Django. I would read up on the autocomplete functions of JQuery and use AJAX to call your DJango code and receive a populated list, which then displays to the user.
JQuery Autocomplete - Custom Data
If you don't want to deal with JavaScript, you can use a django application called django-autocomplete-light.
You can learn more about it (and get it) here: https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light
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I'm about to create a form in my website made in Django with elements that have complex input types from different plugins (like calendar plugins). Also, I'll be using a Validator plugin which validates the input before submission.
My question is do I need to create forms.py and like model the form or can I just create the form manually? The former seems like a very hassle process. Which one is more efficient and recommended?
As #dmitryro said you can create your forms manually in the templates and then getting in the request. It's recommended to use the forms api provided by Django since it allows you to reuse, validate, and customize your forms.
As to whether or not it is a good practice that depends completely on you but if you are trying to scale an application I would recommend use the forms.
It is good to use Django's built in form.
If we use django's form then we only have to write python code and django will create corresponding html for it. And our code will be short and clean.
I'm developing a Django app which has database driven form fields. I've followed this guide which seems to work so far.
I'm using Twitter Bootstrap and would like to split my fields into tabs. What would be the Django way to do this? Should I append the group label to the id of the form fields and somehow do the magic in the template? Should I use multiple forms in the same view (seems complicated)?
The end result HTML wise is to enclose the input fields in the correct div elements with the group's id like so.
I recently required the very same thing.
After some research, I used django-crispy-forms, which worked quite well. A more detailed instructions about the tabs (and the need of .js file for animation) can be found here, in the 'tabs' section.
I'm new to python and the Django framework. I am dealing with lots of forms in my application which is half way developed by the person working in this position earlier. I now need to change the form to incorporate the "Add additional details" button to my existing form.
Can anyone help me out with this? Do let me know in case you need any additional information from my end.
I suggest you read the Forms documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/?from=olddocs
I don't really understand what you mean by "Add additional details". I'm assuming you want to just add additional items to your form.py of your app, be it model data? Again read the doc's they really helped me.
Is the form using an (inline) formset?
You need to use javascript or jQuery to insert a new set of fields into the web page. The formset management values need to be updated as well.
See this snippet or this plugin
I want to ask you how it will be better to implement: using Sitecore WebForms for Marketers module or in standard .ascx sublayout.
So I need to implement huge form with dynamic dropdowns, date pickers, checkboxes, radiobuttons, etc. This form contains also dynamic adding new controls (see description in attachment above). So is it possible to create this form in Sitecore WebForms for Marketers module or it will be easier to write it as standard form in ascx.
This form will be saved to sitecore database.
Please answer if somebody have already done smth like this.
Thanks.
To my kowledge it isn't possible to do this out of the box with WFFM in Sitecore.
I guess the first question to ask is: do you or your customer want/need to be able to manage forms themselves without developer interaction?
If the answer to this question is yes, then you could try to implement this with WFFM, otherwise it may be easier to just implement as a normal sublayout.
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One other thing you could also do is to create a form, then use the 'export to ascx' function. You can look at the generated code to see how the data is written to the WFFM database - this way you can have your custom form functionality but still leverage the reporting functionality in the Sitecore client. If you have some decision tree-like logic for displaying the different fields you could probably drive this from Sitecore content items as well.
As per my knowledge you can create this form with the help of Web form for marketer but in this case you need to create some custom fields and update these fields as per your requirement.
To Create custom field create field under /sitecore/system/Modules/Web Forms for Marketers/Settings/Field Types/Custom location and in custom field define your created custom class and assembly.
You can update design by applying your custom css classes.
Class you can create under /sitecore/system/Modules/Web Forms for Marketers/Settings/Meta data/Css Classes location and apply class on specific control.
I have a model in my Django project with a member which is a char field. Basically data in this field will be entered as comma-separated values.
Without a long-winded explanation of what the overall goal of this is, basically rather than having the admin interface use a simple text field, I'd rather have have some custom HTML for the form so I can just use checkboxes and assemble the values of the checked boxes into a CSV string myself once the form is submitted.
Most of the django customization I was able to find on Google didn't answer my particular problem.
If I understand your question correctly I think you want to search for writing custom widgets. Perhaps start here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/