Question

For a questionnaire, I want to present a sequence of forms to the user. I’d like to keep the view generic, so that it can present any form instance in the sequence.

Currently, I’m storing a list of the form objects (not instances), and I instantiate each form as it needs to be presented. (e.g. formobject = formslist[3]; form = formobject();).

Is there a more pythonic way of doing this? I’ve considered using a getnext function in the definition of each form, but I still need a place to list the sequence of forms that I want to generate.

The next step will be to introduce some skip-logic, so hardwiring the form sequence is not ideal.

Maybe this will help. This is what I have in my view, using a getnext function. It works from the first form to the second, but then does not serve the third form:

def showform(request):
    if 'formobj' not in locals():
        formobj = StartForm

    if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
        form = formobj(request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
            try:
                form.save()
            except:
                pass
            cd = form.cleaned_data
            formobj = form.get_next()
            form = formobj()
            if formobj == 'done':
                render_to_response('doneform.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request))
            else:
                form = formobj()
    else:
        form = formobj()

    return render_to_response('template.html', {'form': form, 'requestpath': request.get_full_path()}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Answer 1

Have you looked at this for saving data during form wizard steps

Using FormWizard and saving the forms data in between before the completion of the whole process?

Also mentioned in that post is an app called django-merlin which may do what you need. I’ve not personally used it though.

Edit

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Django – form wizard step by step