Question

To illustrate what I am trying to do I will use an example:

I have a create recipe form and within this form I intend to have some character fields and two other forms:
1. A steps form
2. An ingredients form

for each of these forms I want to have a button that allows you to add another step or another ingredient.

Here is a screenshot of what I have so far to give you an idea.

Then I need to compact all of the fields and forms into the single create_recipe form.

Has anyone tried to do something like this before?

I can attach some of the code I have if that would be helpful.

Thanks,

katie

Answer 1

I would set it up as follows:

1. Create a recipe form
2. Create a steps form and based on that a steps formset
3. Create a ingredient form and based on that a ingredient formset
4. Add the recipe form, steps formset and ingredient formset to your template.
5. Build the handling of those 3 in your underlying view
6. Make your formsets dynamic, i.e. add and delete buttons, with http://code.google.com/p/django-dynamic-formset/

This link might be very helpful for some implementation details: http://haineault.com/blog/155/