USER STORY: post content

[alanjameschapman]

As a teacher I can post content so that I can provide information to students on a topic of my choice.

Acceptance Criteria

• [x] Teacher can CREATE posts via a crispy form
• [x] Teacher is notified of posting
• [x] Teacher can use RTF
• [x] Teacher can cancel posting
• [x] Teacher can approve instantly.
• [x] Validation to ensure title is unique.

Tasks

• [x] Create model
• [x] Add to admin.py
• [x] Create view
• [x] Create template.

[alanjameschapman]

Basic crispy form displayed within new create_post template	Slug, status and RTF can only be edited within admin panel

[alanjameschapman]

Validation to ensure title is unique

Amend view:

if form.is_valid():
            post = form.save(commit=False)  # Don't save the form to the database yet
            post.author = request.user  # Set the author field to the current user
            post.slug = slugify(post.title)
            try:
                post.save()  # Try to save the form to the database
            except IntegrityError as e: # If the slug is not unique, add an error to the form
                if 'slug' in str(e):
                    form.add_error('title', 'A post with this title already exists - please choose a different title. Case, punctuation and spacing are ignored.')
                    return render(request, 'edblog/create_post.html', {'form': form})
                raise e
            return redirect('home')

Amend model:

title = models.CharField(
        max_length=200,
        unique=True,
        error_messages={
            'unique': 'A post with this title already exists - please choose a different title. Case, punctuation and spacing are ignored.',
        },)

User given specific feedback:

[alanjameschapman]

Summernote widget added to forms.py

from django_summernote.widgets import SummernoteWidget
...
class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    ...
    content = forms.CharField(widget=SummernoteWidget())

[alanjameschapman]

Add styled cancel button (anchor tag linked to home) and style submit button:

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" aria-label="Submit">Submit</button>
<a href="{% url 'home' %}" class="btn btn-danger" aria-label="Cancel">Cancel</a>

Screenshot:

[alanjameschapman]

Modify the create_post view to set the status of the post to 0 for "Draft" and 1 for "Published" when the respective button is clicked:

def create_post(request):
    ...
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = PostForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            post = form.save(commit=False)  # Don't save the form to the database yet
            post.author = request.user  # Set the author field to the current user
            post.slug = slugify(post.title)
            if 'submit' in request.POST:
                post.status = 1 # publish the post
            elif 'save_draft' in request.POST:
                post.status = 0 # save the post as a draft
            try:
                post.save()  # Try to save the form to the database

https://github.com/alanjameschapman/whiteboard/assets/137620143/025819b9-b4fb-494c-b5d9-702e6dcc5053