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Python Django Basics Django Templates Step by Step

Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
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Posted by Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
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is there a way to save steps to courses from the views.py file, or in the terminal/ not using the admin page?

I'm making a web app similar to this in the sense that I have a User object (think Course) and a whole bunch of devices that I want to register to the User (think Step). However I'm trying to do it from my views.py page and make a device registration html page that submits a DeviceForm to be saved. However, rather than Creating a Device object and updating the User object I'm running into the issue that my code is trying to create a new Device and User object which causes issues with the User object already existing. I'm using MongoDB as my database so the issue might be arising there.

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Sure. You can create the related model instance, say Step, and then set it's FK to the first model. So, fetch a Course, set that as the course attribute's value on the Step instance you just created. Save the Step and now it'll show up in the Course's step_set.all() queryset.