8. Content creation wizards¶
Content creation wizards allow you to make use of the toolbar’s Create button in your own applications. It opens up a simple dialog box with the basic fields required to create a new item.
django CMS uses it for creating Pages, but you can add your own models to it.
In the polls_cms_integration application, add a forms.py file:
from django import forms
from polls.models import Poll
class PollWizardForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Poll
exclude = []
Then add a cms_wizards.py file, containing:
from cms.wizards.wizard_base import Wizard
from cms.wizards.wizard_pool import wizard_pool
from polls_cms_integration.forms import PollWizardForm
class PollWizard(Wizard):
pass
poll_wizard = PollWizard(
title="Poll",
weight=200, # determines the ordering of wizards in the Create dialog
form=PollWizardForm,
description="Create a new Poll",
)
wizard_pool.register(poll_wizard)
Refresh the Polls page, hit the Create button in the toolbar - and the wizard dialog will open, offering you a new wizard for creating Polls.
Note
Once again, this particular example is for illustration only. In the case of a Poll, with its multiple Questions associated with it via foreign keys, we really want to be able to edit those questions at the same time too.
That would require a much more sophisticated form and processing than is possible within the scope of this tutorial.