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Material design for django forms and admin

Project description

Material design for Django Forms and Admin. Template driven.

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Overview

  • Forms - new way to render django forms

    • Strong python/html code separation

    • Easy redefinition of particular fields rendering

    • Complex form layout support

  • Frontend - Quick starter template for modular ERP-like applications developent

  • Admin - Material-designed django admin

Demo: http://forms.viewflow.io/

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Installation

django-material tested with Python 2.7/3.4, django 1.8, django 1.9:

pip install django-material

Forms

Add material into INSTALLED_APPS settings

INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'material',
     ...
)

Include material javascript and styles along with jQuery into your base template.

{% include 'material/includes/material_css.html' %}
<script src="{% static 'material/js/jquery-2.2.0.js' %}"></script>
{% include 'material/includes/material_js.html' %}

Load the material_form template tag library

{% load material_form %}

And render your form with {% form %} template tag

<form method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% form form=form %}{% endform %}
    <button type="submit" name="_submit" class="btn">Submit</button>
</form>

Template tags

django-material forms processing is built around simple concept called part. part is like django template block, it has a default value and could be overriden. But parts are created dynamically for each form field, which allows you to redefine specific form field html render output.

Here is the example of rendering form with but prefix email field with email icon.

<form method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% form %}
        {% part form.email prefix %}<div class="input-group-addon">@</div>{% endpart %}
    {% endform %}
    <button type="submit" name="_submit" class="btn">Submit</button>
</form>

There is a lot of other parts declared in default templates. See template code for details. If your widget is so special, you can completly override its rendering

{% part form.my_field %}any html code here{% endpart %}

Layout

Layout object is the way to specify relative fields placements and sizes.

from material import *

layout = Layout(
    Row('shipment_no', 'description')
    Fieldset("Add to inventory",
             Row(Span3('product_name'), 'tags'),
             Row('vendor', 'product_type'),
             Row(Column('sku',
                        'stock_level',
                        span_columns=4),
                 'gender', 'desired_gender'),
             Row('cost_price', Span2('wholesale_price'), 'retail_price')))

SpanXX elements are not to material grid classes, but used to determine relative fields width. Each row occupies 12 grid columns. Elements in Row(‘elem1’, ‘elem2’) would be rendered in 6 grid coulmns each, and in Row(Span2(‘elem1’), ‘elem2’) elem1 would be rendered in 8 grid columns, and elem2 in 4 grid columns.

Layouts rendering itself is specified in template.

ModelForm Views

Material forms library provides LayoutMixin for model form views, populates form fields list directly from layout object

from django import generic
from viewform import LayoutMixin

class SampleView(LayoutMixin, generic.ModelFormView):
    layout = Layout(...)

Frontend

Frontend template assumes that your application contains a set of top level modules each one could restrict user access level and have own submenu.

To quick start add material.frontend into INSTALLED_APPS settings

INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'material',
     'material.frontend',
     ...
)

Add frontend urls into global urlconf module at urls.py

from material.frontend import urls as frontend_urls

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'', include(frontend_urls)),
]

The fronend module perform all required settings modification (add middleware, context_processors and template tags), automagically till MATERIAL_FRONTEND_AUTOREGISTER settings set to False.

To create a new module make a modules.py file, inside app directory, with following content

from material.frontend import Module

class Sample(Module):
    icon = 'mdi-image-compare'

By default module expose a single view that renders html template from <module_name>/index.html file.

You can override Module.get_urls() method to provide module url config that would be automatically included into global urls.

To provide custom module menu, just create a template <module_name>/menu.html.

You can disable modules autodiscovery and explicitly list enabled modules in the MODULES setting

MODULES = (
    'my_app.modules.Sample'
)

Admin

Add material.admin into INSTALLED_APPS settings

INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'material',
     'material.admin',
     ...
)

NOTE: ‘material.admin’ must be added before ‘django.contrib.admin’

Ensure that django.template.context_processors.request in your template context processor settings list

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        ...
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                ...
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                ...
            ],
        },
    },
]

You can provide a custom admin site module in the MATERIAL_ADMIN_SITE setting

MATERIAL_ADMIN_SITE = 'mymodule.admin.admin_site'

Admin support development is on initial stage. Only basic admin features are available.


Changelog

0.6.0 2016-02-22 - Alpha

  • First release with full django stardard widgets support

  • Forms - New per-widget demos on http://forms.viewflow.io/demo/widget/

  • Forms - Many widget behaviour fixes (DecimalInput, Select, MultiSelect, RadioInput)

  • Forms - Disable change datetime on mouse wheel

  • Admin - Style fixes and improvements

  • Admin - Custom form layouts support (ex: http://forms.viewflow.io/admin/sales/shipment/add/)

  • Admin - Admin css/js files moded to separate templates. Fix static files issue with CDN

  • Admin - Move All js/css dependencies inside the package. Meke it intranet app fiendly.

  • Frontend - Style fixes and improvements

  • Frontend - Fix load indicator on pjax back

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