Question

On my homepage I have a simple search form. The user can enter some filters and in a next step the search results are diplayed on a new page => this all works:

Below a simplified version of the view.py:

def search(request):
    form = SearchForm()
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = SearchForm(request.POST)
        results = search(form)
        return render_to_response('search_results.html',{'results': results},context_instance = RequestContext(request))
    else:
        form = SearchForm()
    return render_to_response('search.html',{'form': form},context_instance = RequestContext(request))

Now the problem:
In a next step I want to add the same searchform in the search_result.html page. The purpose would be that the user can refine the search results using that search form. In an ideal world the search form on search_results.html has already the filters entered in search.html prefilled.

I’m struggling a bit on how to approach this. Should I pass the orginal entered filters as a list to the search_result.html page? How can I do this? And how can I put these values as a default in the form? Maybe I’m overthinking this somehow, but at this moment I don’t see a good solution.

Any feedback, directions are very much appreciated!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Can’t you just make your context dict {'results': results, 'form': form}? This would make the form available again with the previously posted data already bound to the form.