Maybe trying with ajax? jquery has some nice functions to deal with ajax post requests.
You can even send files via ajax. >From the server side, you could return JSON objects and parse them on the client (for validation). Cheers On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I'd like to find a way to let my users submit form data without > submitting > it via an actual web form. For example, I have users that would like > to > send their data via email, or perhaps provide it in an excel spread > sheet, > > I'm trying to figure out how to do this and still leverage all the > error > checking associated with my forms (ie, via is_valid). > > I'm thinking that on the server side I could create a form with > initial data, > and then instead of rendering that form, I'd like to just convert it > directly > to a POST data dict, as if the user submitted the form without making > any changes. Then I'd take that POST data, add a bit of additinal > data > that I've gotten from some other source (ie from email or excel), then > run > is_valid(), then do my standard save to my db object. > > Can anyone comment on if this seems like a good approach for doing > this, > and if so, if there is any django support for turning a form directly > into a data dict? > > Thanks! > Margie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Gabriel Gayan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
