AutoForms is a custom form engine for Django that allows users to declare forms at runtime, serialize form data, and dynamically generate forms. It can be used for polling, information collecting, custom forms in workflows, and dynamic forms in Django apps. Key features include declaring forms programmatically, previewing forms, setting advanced field options, customizing error messages, collecting and accessing submitted form data, and displaying stored data.

1. AutoForms
A custom form engine for Django
@jeff_kit
http://jeffkit.info

2. AutoForms is ...
• A custom form engine for django
• Django Form ++
• Declare form at runtime
• Form serialization
• http://autoforms.sandbox.jeffkit.info

3. Who needs AutoForms
• Polling
• information collecting
• custom form in workflow
• a dynamic form in your Django app
• PAAS made in china

4. You may seen her before

5. How to ...

6. installation
• git clone git://github.com/jeffkit/autoforms
• cd autoforms
• python setup.py install

7. config ur Django project
• Append ‘autoforms’ to INSTALL_APPS in
settings.py
• Append “(r'^form/', include('autoforms.urls'))”
to urlpatterns in urls.py
• python manage.py syncdb
• And ....... Rock n’ Roll it !

8. Form Administration

9. Create a Form

11. Supported field types

12. Preview the form

13. Preview the form
How?

14. ADV Field setting
• default value,datasource,validator......
• Custom Field Widget
• Custom Error message

15. Advantage setting

16. Advantage
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17. Advantage
Supported Widget types
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18. Widget Parameters

19. Widget Parameters
json string

20. Widget Parameters
json string
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21. Widget Parameters
json string
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22. Custom error message

23. Custom error message

24. Custom error message

25. Custom error message

26. Collecting form data
• fill a form @ form/fill/{form-id}/
• overview data @ form/overview/{form-id}/

27. Code Code Code
• OK here comes the high level API
• First of all:
• from autoforms.models import Form

28. Get a Form
• Empty Form
• form = Form.objects.get(pk=id).as_form()
• Form with data
• data = request.POST
• form = Form.objects.get(pk=id).as_form(data)
• ‘form’ could be a django.forms.Form object!

29. render a form
• form.as_p()
• form.as_table()
• form.as_ul()
• That’s the regular Django Form api!

30. Save form data
• data = request.POST
• form.persist(data)

31. Load stored form datas
• datas = form.search(page,size,fields,*args,**kw)

32. Play with datas
• for data in datas:
• print data.name,data.email,data.message
• ‘data’ is an instance of
autoforms.models.FormInstance

33. A fancy tag
• {% datalist page=1 pagesize=10
fields=name,email template=your-app/your-
template.html %}
• Diaplay your form data in a table.
• All parameters are optional !

34. Sth u can do with autoforms

35. Poll/Collecting service
• TODOs:
• A nice form style
• An Embedable (iframe ) form page
• Simple statis logic and charts

36. Form storage service
• TODOs:
• A better form data storage backend
• A Pice of javascript code

37. PAAS made in China?!
• a Form is a model
• develop on line with “form + script”
• ok,it’s just a joke :P

38. TODO
• i18N
• custom widget
• save the files
• a MongoDB form data storage backend
• custom validator

39. Questions?

40. Thank you!