Re: Django FormPreview: Save form data to database

Yeah, that's actually what I was doing before, but as far as I can tell formtools prevents that possibility. Do you know of some way to create the desired 'preview page' behavior while using CreateView?

On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 4:30:26 AM UTC-7, ludovic coues wrote:

If you want to create a Job object and save it to database, I highly
recommend the CreateView

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/class-based-views/generic-editing/#django.views.generic.edit.CreateView

2017-03-09 2:17 GMT+01:00 jthewriter <miller...@gmail.com>:
> Probably a simple question but having trouble implementing a form preview
> page using django-formtools. I've configured everything per the docs. I'm
> stuck on what to add to the done() method to save the data to db.
>
>
> forms.py
>
> class JobForm(ModelForm):
>     class Meta:
>         model = Job
>         fields = ('title', 'category', 'company', 'website',
> 'description',)
>
> class JobFormPreview(FormPreview):
>     def done(self, request, cleaned_data):
>         # add what here to save form data as object?
>         return HttpResponseRedirect('/success')
>
>
> urls.py
>
> ...
> url(r'^jobs/new/$',
>     JobFormPreview(JobForm),
>     name='job_form'),
> ...
>
>
> Using the default templates. The form and preview both render fine, but
> obviously data doesn't save on submit. Tried self.form.save() but get an
> error save() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'.
>
>
> I appreciate any guidance.
>
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