Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 5

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we learn how to use Django's forms library (formerly referred to as newforms) to allow users of the site to be able to add new events to the system. We cover using ModelForms and how that allows us to tie a form instance to a model instance, and how it enables us to use only a subset of fields on the model to generate the form.

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

NewForms Admin I

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover converting an existing application to the NewForms-Admin Branch of Django. We will cover hooking the NewForms-Admin into our urls.py module, extracting out the inner Admin class information into a NewForms-Admin class, handling the prepopulate_from, and organizing our admin class information into a separate module.

  • Running Time: 21:09
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

NewForms Personalization

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover NewForms Personalization. Often you have a drop down or some other field in your NewForm that you need to have personalized, or changed based on the logged in user or other instance criteria. This screencast will show you how to accomplish that in your applications.

  • Running Time: 13:31
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