Fast Forms With UpdateView – Building SaaS #44

Building SaaS (86 Part Series)

1 Building SaaS with Python and Django #1
2 Reporting scraped data – Building SaaS #2
… 82 more parts…
3 Multiple Stripe plans – Building SaaS #3
4 Using a background scheduler – Building SaaS #4
5 Updating data models – Building SaaS #5
6 Third party integration modeling – Building SaaS #6
7 Displaying third party data – Building SaaS #7
8 Connecting third party services – Building SaaS #8
9 Finishing third party integration – Building SaaS #9
10 Admin dashboards – Building SaaS #10
11 Semi-automated tasks – Building SaaS #11
12 Automation aides – Building SaaS #12
13 Deploying with Ansible – Building SaaS #13
14 Ansible Cranked to 11 – Building SaaS #14
15 Feature Flags with Django Waffle – Building SaaS #15
16 Feature Flags in Action – Building SaaS #16
17 Canceling Stripe Subscriptions – Building SaaS #17
18 Completing Account Deactivation – Building SaaS #18
19 Pip-tools and App Packaging – Building SaaS #19
20 Making a Shiv App – Building SaaS #20
21 Shiv zipapps and CI – Building SaaS #21
22 Upload to S3 with CircleCI orbs – Building SaaS #22
23 It’s Alive! A Django Shiv app – Building SaaS #23
24 In the Guts of a Shiv App – Building SaaS #24
25 It’s Permissions, Dummy! – Building SaaS #25
26 Connecting Shiv Apps with Ansible – Building SaaS #26
27 Plug the Shiv App Into Nginx – Building SaaS #27
28 Webpack and collectstatic in CI – Building SaaS #28
29 Add Static Assets to Deployment – Building SaaS #29
30 Ripping Out Node.js – Building SaaS #30
31 Celery In A Shiv App – Building SaaS #31
32 wal-e Postgres Backups – Building SaaS #32
33 Get Out, Git! – Building SaaS #33
34 Bring in the WhiteNoise, Bring in Da Funk – Building SaaS #34
35 Deploying WhiteNoise – Building SaaS #35
36 Configurama – Building SaaS #36
37 Lessons From A Failed SaaS – Building SaaS #37
38 New Project, Who Dis? – Building SaaS #38
39 django-environ and django-debug-toolbar – Building SaaS #39
40 Make A Custom User Model – Building SaaS #40
41 User Accounts With django-allauth – Building SaaS #41
42 Add Styles To Templates – Building SaaS #42
43 Use Tailwind On A Template – Building SaaS #43
44 Fast Forms With UpdateView – Building SaaS #44
45 Templates and Logic – Building SaaS #45
46 A Week At A Time – Building SaaS #46
47 How To Style Sign Up – Building SaaS #47
48 Onboarding – Building SaaS #48
49 Starting the Onboarding Flow – Building SaaS #49
50 Onboarding Continuity – Building SaaS #50
51 Onboarding Forms – Building SaaS #51
52 Consistent Onboarding – Building SaaS #52
53 More Onboarding Goodness – Building SaaS #53
54 User Testing Feedback – Building SaaS #54
55 Remodeling Data Relationships – Building SaaS #55
56 How To Fix A Bug – Building SaaS #56
57 Switch A Django Project To Use Pytest – Building SaaS #57
58 Bread and Butter Django – Building SaaS #58
59 Designing A View – Building SaaS #59
60 A View From Start To Finish – Building SaaS #60
61 Hackathon App – Building SaaS #61
62 Hackathon App Part 2 – Building SaaS #62
63 The Home Stretch – Building SaaS #63
64 Enrolling Students – Building SaaS #64
65 Docs, Bugs, and Reports – Building SaaS #66
66 Handle Default Values – Building SaaS #65
67 Give Me A Break… Day – Building SaaS #67
68 Rendering Calendars – Building SaaS #68
69 Polishing and Usability – Building SaaS #69
70 Predicting The Future – Building SaaS #70
71 Custom Form Validation – Building SaaS #71
72 Displaying Breaks – Building SaaS #72
73 Dynamically Regrouping QuerySets In Templates – Building SaaS #73
74 Check Web App Security With Bandit – Building SaaS #74
75 Make A Landing Page – Building SaaS #75
76 Capped Social Network – Building SaaS #76
77 Sending Invites – Building SaaS #77
78 Create A Form Template – Building SaaS #78
79 WhiteNoise Shenanigans – Building SaaS #79
80 Reordering Models – Building SaaS #80
81 Finishing Onboarding – Building SaaS #81
82 Customer Feedback – Building SaaS #82
83 Empty States – Building SaaS #83
84 Refactoring Enrollment – Building SaaS #84
85 Customer Docs – Building SaaS #85
86 Testing Email Designs – Building SaaS #86

In this episode, we worked on an edit view. We used Django’s generic UpdateView to aid the process and test drove the creation of the view to verify things every step of the way.

We worked on a view to make it possible to edit the CourseTask model that are the actions that a student must complete for a course.

To complete the form quickly, I took advantage of Django’s ModelForm views. These views are designed to make forms rapidly from existing models.

The first thing I did was create a test that would try to edit a course task from the URL where the task can be edited. The first test was a GET request to make sure that we can render a form for the given task.

We took a break to chat about other frameworks and philosophies around those choices.

On the new view, I used get_queryset to filter to the tasks associated with the user’s school. To connect the view to the view’s URL uuid parameter, we had to set slug_field and slug_url_kwarg to uuid. Finally, I set the fields that we want to edit on the model record.

After that was done, the view required the creation of a courses/coursetask_form.html template. We created an empty file and the initial test passed!

With the happy test done, I added more tests to check the other constraints that the view needs to have.

Before jumping into the template of the form, I modified the daily view that is supposed to link to this view to do the proper linking.

To finish the stream, I spent a bit of time adding initial styles and structure to the form view templates.

This article first appeared on mattlayman.com.

Building SaaS (86 Part Series)

1 Building SaaS with Python and Django #1
2 Reporting scraped data – Building SaaS #2
… 82 more parts…
3 Multiple Stripe plans – Building SaaS #3
4 Using a background scheduler – Building SaaS #4
5 Updating data models – Building SaaS #5
6 Third party integration modeling – Building SaaS #6
7 Displaying third party data – Building SaaS #7
8 Connecting third party services – Building SaaS #8
9 Finishing third party integration – Building SaaS #9
10 Admin dashboards – Building SaaS #10
11 Semi-automated tasks – Building SaaS #11
12 Automation aides – Building SaaS #12
13 Deploying with Ansible – Building SaaS #13
14 Ansible Cranked to 11 – Building SaaS #14
15 Feature Flags with Django Waffle – Building SaaS #15
16 Feature Flags in Action – Building SaaS #16
17 Canceling Stripe Subscriptions – Building SaaS #17
18 Completing Account Deactivation – Building SaaS #18
19 Pip-tools and App Packaging – Building SaaS #19
20 Making a Shiv App – Building SaaS #20
21 Shiv zipapps and CI – Building SaaS #21
22 Upload to S3 with CircleCI orbs – Building SaaS #22
23 It’s Alive! A Django Shiv app – Building SaaS #23
24 In the Guts of a Shiv App – Building SaaS #24
25 It’s Permissions, Dummy! – Building SaaS #25
26 Connecting Shiv Apps with Ansible – Building SaaS #26
27 Plug the Shiv App Into Nginx – Building SaaS #27
28 Webpack and collectstatic in CI – Building SaaS #28
29 Add Static Assets to Deployment – Building SaaS #29
30 Ripping Out Node.js – Building SaaS #30
31 Celery In A Shiv App – Building SaaS #31
32 wal-e Postgres Backups – Building SaaS #32
33 Get Out, Git! – Building SaaS #33
34 Bring in the WhiteNoise, Bring in Da Funk – Building SaaS #34
35 Deploying WhiteNoise – Building SaaS #35
36 Configurama – Building SaaS #36
37 Lessons From A Failed SaaS – Building SaaS #37
38 New Project, Who Dis? – Building SaaS #38
39 django-environ and django-debug-toolbar – Building SaaS #39
40 Make A Custom User Model – Building SaaS #40
41 User Accounts With django-allauth – Building SaaS #41
42 Add Styles To Templates – Building SaaS #42
43 Use Tailwind On A Template – Building SaaS #43
44 Fast Forms With UpdateView – Building SaaS #44
45 Templates and Logic – Building SaaS #45
46 A Week At A Time – Building SaaS #46
47 How To Style Sign Up – Building SaaS #47
48 Onboarding – Building SaaS #48
49 Starting the Onboarding Flow – Building SaaS #49
50 Onboarding Continuity – Building SaaS #50
51 Onboarding Forms – Building SaaS #51
52 Consistent Onboarding – Building SaaS #52
53 More Onboarding Goodness – Building SaaS #53
54 User Testing Feedback – Building SaaS #54
55 Remodeling Data Relationships – Building SaaS #55
56 How To Fix A Bug – Building SaaS #56
57 Switch A Django Project To Use Pytest – Building SaaS #57
58 Bread and Butter Django – Building SaaS #58
59 Designing A View – Building SaaS #59
60 A View From Start To Finish – Building SaaS #60
61 Hackathon App – Building SaaS #61
62 Hackathon App Part 2 – Building SaaS #62
63 The Home Stretch – Building SaaS #63
64 Enrolling Students – Building SaaS #64
65 Docs, Bugs, and Reports – Building SaaS #66
66 Handle Default Values – Building SaaS #65
67 Give Me A Break… Day – Building SaaS #67
68 Rendering Calendars – Building SaaS #68
69 Polishing and Usability – Building SaaS #69
70 Predicting The Future – Building SaaS #70
71 Custom Form Validation – Building SaaS #71
72 Displaying Breaks – Building SaaS #72
73 Dynamically Regrouping QuerySets In Templates – Building SaaS #73
74 Check Web App Security With Bandit – Building SaaS #74
75 Make A Landing Page – Building SaaS #75
76 Capped Social Network – Building SaaS #76
77 Sending Invites – Building SaaS #77
78 Create A Form Template – Building SaaS #78
79 WhiteNoise Shenanigans – Building SaaS #79
80 Reordering Models – Building SaaS #80
81 Finishing Onboarding – Building SaaS #81
82 Customer Feedback – Building SaaS #82
83 Empty States – Building SaaS #83
84 Refactoring Enrollment – Building SaaS #84
85 Customer Docs – Building SaaS #85
86 Testing Email Designs – Building SaaS #86

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