Complex content type

[Said Akhmedbayev]

Need to build a content type that accepts inputs from users. Those inputs must be stored in database alone with information who entered it (user's information like user name). 

Here is what I am looking to build:

 Here is how my models.py looks at the moment. 

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from django.db import models

# Create your models here.

class Unit(models.Model):

    unit_number = models.PositiveIntegerField(blank=True, null=True, default=1)

    title = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True, null=True)

    scripture_ref = models.CharField(max_length=250, blank=True, null=True)

    def __str__(self):

        return self.title

class Subsection(models.Model):

    title = models.CharField(max_length=150, blank=True, null=True)

    subsection_text = models.TextField(default='SUBSECTION TEXT')

    unit = models.ForeignKey(Unit, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

class Question(models.Model):

    question_text = models.CharField(max_length=2000, default='QUESTION TEXT')

    subsection = models.ForeignKey(Subsection, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    

    

class Answer(models.Model):

    answer = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True) # this field I want to store alone with question_text and answered_by fields

    answered_by = models.ForeignKey(User, blank=True, null=True, related_name='answers')

I am probably asking a lot, but I hope that there will be someone who can help. My question is what should I do with models.py, forms.py and views.py to put together this kind of content type?

Thank you in advance!

[Avraham Serour]

what's so special about your content type? It seems you are just storing text.

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[Said Akhmedbayev]

Avraham, I understand that the content type is not any special or complex for you. Probably, I should wrote "complex content type for me". Anyways, can you provide any instructions for how can make this kind of content type?

[ludovic coues]

I have some trouble trying to understand what you means by "content type". That terms refer to the content of a file. For exemple, text/plain for plain text file or image/png for an image encoded as png.

What you show look like a standard form. If you need basic pointer on how to use a form, saving it's data along with current logged-in user, you might want to have a look at the django girls tutorial. Specifically, http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/django_forms/ is about django forms.

[Said Akhmedbayev]

Thank you ludovic and sorry for not being able to clearly explain what I want to do :-(. You are right, I want to show a user a simple django form, but I cannot figure out how to save an individual answer alone with its correspondence question's id and user's id

So my table for "Answer" model will look like:

user_id       question_id             answer

     01                    01                 text of an answer

     01                    02                 text of an answer

     02                    01                 text of an answer

     02                    02                 text of an answer

     03                    01                 text of an answer

     03                    02                 text of an answer

[ludovic coues]

You might want to add a foreign key in the answer model pointing to
the question.
Then in the view to show the form, create an answer object with it's
question FK assigned to the question and create a form from that
answer. In the view processing the form, you should get that object
back, with the question and the text filled. Complete it with the
user, as shown in the django girls tutorial and save your answer.

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[Said Akhmedbayev]

Ludovic, would you be so kind to help me and put together some example code of what I should  place in the forms.py and the views.py? I would greatly appreciate.

[ludovic coues]

There is such example in the django girls tutorial I linked earlier.

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[Aaron Cannon]

To your Answer class, you could just add a field like:

question = models.ForeignKey(Question, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

It may be as simple as that.

Does that help?

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