I am new to django,In django1.3 how can I use the Built-in forms like PasswordChangeForm ,PasswordResetForm etc and the same using built-in views.Can any one share some liks or codes ,ideas,am absolutely .new to Django,Thanks in advance
Django by default has all these forms built in views. For all those features, all you need to do is to, point them at relevant URL positions, that map to the specific views.
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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 am having very complex models in my project, that I cannot display easily on HTML page using modelForms.
So I want to to use normal forms instead and store the values in Models.is it possible?
It is possible. You simply create your own form by inheriting forms.Form.
Then get the form input from request in your views and create your object.
In short what you are asking is possible.
Here is the official documentation for forms: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/forms/
What is the right way to make embedded form with manyToMany, oneToMany, etc? I would like to build form rendering like django auto-generated admin (ref).
See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/forms/formsets/ for examples of how to render one or more forms for models that are associated to other models.
I'm trying to replicate the inlines in the Django admin for adding related models on a FKd model on my own non admin ModelForm. In particular, when you use a StackeAdminInline and you get the "+ Add another XXX" bit of Javascript to add more of the related model.
It must be possible if the admin can do it, but I can't find a project with an example of how to do this. Can anyone point me at something? Am using Crispy Forms, although happy not to if need be. I did see https://github.com/runekaagaard/django-crispy-forms-fancy-formsets but seems as though this wasn't preferred by the Crispy maintainers, and was thinking there must be some more Djangoic way of doing this if the admin can do it already.
Thanks!
The JS used by the admin is based on this jQuery plugin http://code.google.com/p/django-dynamic-formset/ which is still reasonably maintained.
We have some models that are have a user as a foreign key. But with about 25000 users in our system, it's a bit daunting to find the one we need.
Is there a solution out there that's better than the select box? Maybe an autocomplete so we can start typing the user name / address? Or just a search box? When switching the related user for these objects, it's getting harder and harder with 25000 unsorted users.
Even just setting it to sort the users by username would be helpful.
I had this problem and my conclusion was to use an autocomplete field instead. It works pretty well in most cases. The only problem is when you have a lot of entries that are mostly the same. For example, in your case, if you type Robert for the name and there's a few hundred Robert entries in the list...
UPDATE
As mentions in shuckc's answer, Django 2.0+ admin as now autocomplete built in.
For older Django or to use outside of the admin (old answer)
There are many apps that add autocomplete to the Django admin:
django-autocomplete-light
django-extensions (ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin)
django-autocomplete (on google code)
django-ajax-selects
django-admin-autocomplete
django-autocomplete (tyrion)
My preferred one is the last one. It's well written, it can be used with the admin and outside of the admin, it works with ManyToManyFields, ForeignKeyFields, CharFields, etc.
I did a fork of this project for my client that adds some niceties like a lookup (loupe) button like the ForeignKeyRawIdWidget.
Django 2.0 admin has autocomplete built in, just set the autocomplete_fields field on the ModelAdmin class. e.g.
class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
ordering = ['date_created']
search_fields = ['question_text']
class ChoiceAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
autocomplete_fields = ['question']
The simplest out-of-the-box solution is to add the field to your ModelAdmin's raw_id_fields -- then you'll get a pop-up window in which you can use the built-in searching/filtering and pagination control's to find and select the object you're after.
If you really want autocomplete, the other answers give a you reasonable starting point.
You can use the ForeignKeyRawIdWidget from django.contrib.admin.widgets. It renders FK relations as an input with a small button along-side which presents a searchable pop up.
There is an app for that (django-autocomplete).