django-generic-views

I am new to django (1.2.4). I have created some crud with generic views. But How can I show something like "The student was added successfully" when student is created using django's messaging framework? As far as I know, there isn't a straightforward way of doing this using traditional generic views. I've always felt that the documentation on generic views was pretty lacking and so never used them. In theory you could use a decorator by making the assumption that a redirect meant a successful submission. So you could write something like this (none of this code has been tested): urls.py : try

These two pieces of code are identical at the first blush: class IndexView(generic.ListView): template_name = 'polls/index.html' context_object_name = 'latest_poll_list' queryset = Poll.active.order_by('-pub_date')[:5] and class IndexView(generic.ListView): template_name = 'polls/index.html' context_object_name = 'latest_poll_list' def get_queryset(self): return Poll.active.order_by('-pub_date')[:5] Is there any difference between them? And if it is: What approach is better? Or when setting queryset variable is better than override the get_queryset method? And vice versa. In your example,

I have a model named Domain which looks like this: class Domain(models.Model): """ Model for storing the company domains """ user = models.ForeignKey( User ) host = models.CharField( null=False, verbose_name="Host", max_length=128, unique=True ) I'd like to use Django's generic views for doing CRUD operations on this. There is one field in this model that needs user input but the foreign key field doesn't need any user input. How can I exclude that field from the form that my generic view generates but assign it the value of the current authenticated user. Thanks. Have a look at Russel's

I've been impressed how rapidly a functional website can go together with generic views in the tutorials. Also, the workflow for form processing is nice. I used the ModelForm helper class to create a form from a model I made and was delighted to see that so much functionality came together. When I used the generic list_detail.object_detail I was disappointed that all that I could display were fields individually. I knew the ModelForm class contained information for rendering, so I wanted to use the ModelForm with a generic view. I was asking around on stackoverflow to get some direction, and