How to use two different Django Form at the same template?
django, django-forms, django-models, django-templates, django-views
Solution
Use the `prefix` argument so that your field names don't clash.
For example:
alert form = AlertForm(request.POST, prefix='alert')
notifier_form = NotifierForm(request.POST, prefix='notifier')
You need to use the same prefix in your unbound forms.
extra_context = { 'alert_form': AlertForm(prefix='alert'), notifier_form': NotifierForm(prefix='notifier') }
The advantage of using prefix is that you don't need to manually rename the fields, as umnik700 suggests in their answer.
Problem
My forms.py: ``` class AlertForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model=Alert fields = ('high','medium', 'user') widgets = { 'user': forms.HiddenInput() } AlertCountFormset = modelformset_factory(Alert, form = AlertForm) ``` Another Django Form class: ``` class NotifierForm(forms.ModelForm): high = forms.ChoiceField(choices=NOTIFIER_TYPE) medium = forms.ChoiceField(choices=NOTIFIER_TYPE) low = forms.ChoiceField(choices=NOTIFIER_TYPE) def save(self, commit=True): alert = super(NotifierForm, self).save(commit=False) alert.high = self.cleaned_data["high"] alert.medium = self.cleaned_data["medium"] alert.low = self.cleaned_data["low"] alert.save() return alert class Meta: model=Notifier fields = ('high','medium', 'low', 'user') widgets = { 'user': forms.HiddenInput() } NotifierFormset = modelformset_factory(Notifier, form = NotifierForm) ``` Below is for the choice fields: ``` NOTIFIER_TYPE = ( (0, _('E-mail')), (1, _('Skype')), (2, _('IRC')) ) ``` I want to fill these two forms at the same template. So i choose to write same views for both i.e. : ``` def profile_setting(request, slug): if request.method == 'POST': alert_form = AlertForm(request.POST) notifier_form = NotifierForm(request.POST) if alert_form.is_valid() and notifier_form.is_valid(): alert = alert_form.save(commit=False) notifier = notifier_form.save(commit=False) alert.user = request.user.username notifier.user = request.user.username notifier.save() alert.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('profile_setting', args=[slug])) extra_context = { 'alert_form': AlertForm(), 'notifier_form': NotifierForm() } return direct_to_template(request,'users/user_profile_setting.html', extra_context) ``` According to that in my template.html: ``` {% block content %} <h3>{% trans "Alerts limit" %}</h3> <form action="" method="POST">{% csrf_token %} {{ alert_form.as_p }} <input type="submit" value="{% trans 'Update' %}" /> </form> <h3>{% trans "Notifier setting" %}</h3> <form action="" method="POST">{% csrf_token %} {{ notifier_form.as_p }} <input type="submit" value="{% trans 'Update' %}" /> </form> ``` Everything is right, It is saving the data to database also. But the problem is whenever i filled the aler_form and click on the update buttone. it also update the another form with the same value or vice versa. For example if i choose ``` 1 2 3 for high , medium and low for alert_Form ``` Then it also save the same value for notify_form. Why is this happening. Is that something wrong with the views?