How to achieve formView and ListView on one page [DJANGO 1.8] -

i trying create page following layout:

|---------------------------------------------------------------- |  |----------------------------------| |  |  see details: owner (dropdown)   | -> form |  |----------------------------------| | |  |----------------------------------| |  |  computer brand: dell            | -> list of computers |  |  member_field1                   | |  |  member_field2                   | |  |  ------------------------------- | |  |  computer brand: asus         v  |  -> first computer should have |  |  ------------------------------- |     of details visible |  |  computer brand: tamagochi    v  |     while next ones should  |  |                                  |     collapsed    

my functionality when user selects owner dropdown redirected /owner/id/ , have details of computers associated him displayed bellow.

i have default "create new owner" field in dropdown first possible choice , see below create owner form.

i have been struggling hours trying understand of views, generic views , things.

things have (those not real examples code not compiled shows general things have in app right now):

# models class computer(models.model):     brand = models.charfield(max_length=10)     member_field1     member_field2     owner = models.foreignkey('owner')  class owner(models.model):     name = models.charfield(max_length=10)  # forms class ownerform(forms.form):     owner = forms.modelchoicefield(queryset=owner.objects.all())  # views class computerownerdetailview(generic.detailview):     model = computer     template_name = 'computer_owner_detail.html'      def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):         context = super.get_context_data         context['owner_chooser_form'] = ownerform(initial = {'field1':context['object'].id})         context['owned_computers_list'] = computer.objects.all()[:10]         return context  # urls url(r'^owner/(?p<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.computerownerdetailview.as_view(), name='owner_detail'),  # template {% extends 'android/index.html' %} {% block where_it_has_to_go_in_base %}  <form method="post" class="post-form">{% csrf_token %}         {{ owner_chooser_form.as_p }}         <button type="submit" class="save btn btn-default">save</button </form>  {% if computer_owner_detail %} <ul>   {% computer in computer_owner_detail %}   <li>{{ computer.brand }}</li>   {% endfor %} </ul> {% else %}  <p> no computer defined yet </p> {% endif %}   {% endblock %} 

there several problems (questions) have this.

1. ownerform(initial = {'field1':context['object'].id}) => not preselect owner

2. context['owned_computers_list'] = computer.objects.all()[:10] => gets computers - want filter them owner have no access owner in method

i pretty sure whole architecture wrong. shouldn't using detailsview since not presenting details model have attached view ( computerownerdetailview -> computer ). not know how achieve required functionality.

right when submit form gets me same url post, can not handle post ( or @ least couldn't find way ) in current setup can see new id of owner user has selected dropdown , redirect owner/new_id/ computers associated new owner listed

can please me.

thank you

add following view:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse  class computerownerdetailview(generic.formview):  ...      def form_valid(self,form):         owner = get_object_or_404(owner,pk=form.cleaned_data['owner']         return httpresponseredirect(reverse('owner_details',owner.id)) 

if want custom page instead of 404:

from django.core.exceptions import objectdoesnotexist  def form_valid(self,form):     try:         owner = owner(pk=form.cleaned_data['owner']         ulr = reverse('owner_details',owner.id)     except objectdoesnotexist:         url = reverse("another-view")     return httpresponseredirect(url)