Question

User goes to a page which has a SELECT choice list. Once he picks a choice, without submit button, but rather by SELECTION, we render a new page which is process by a different view (in a different app).

CHOICES = {('EDIT','EDIT'), ('ASSIGN', 'ASSIGN'), # etc # }
select = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Select(choices=CHOICES))

Now, I am pretty clueless how to go about writing my view.

choice_view.py renders choice.html; then choosing EDIT process by edit.py with some parameters.

http://localhost/url_1/ then (after selecting edit goes to) http://localhost/url_2/

Can someone lead me in the right direction?

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can try the following:

Firstly, define a URL for http://localhost/url_2/ with its name, parameters and view which it would run. Here, the view lies in the file edit.py.

Then, in the template of http://localhost/url_1/, i.e., choice.html, write a JQuery code defining the onChange function for the select field. In the onChange function, call the URL of http://localhost/url_2/ by its name and passing the select field value as parameter to it. You can use window.location.href for calling the URL. This would redirect you to http://localhost/url_2/.

In the view inside edit.py, you can write the code of the process further.