Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Execute these steps one by one to add the modal dialog as an intermediate step between the list view and the detail view:

1. First, in the URL configuration of the locations app, add a rule for the response of the modal dialog:

# myproject/apps/locations/urls.pyfrom django.urls import pathfrom .views import LocationList, LocationDetailurlpatterns = [    path("", LocationList.as_view(), name="location_list"),    path("add/", add_or_change_location, name="add_location"),    path("<uuid:pk>/", LocationDetail.as_view(),      name="location_detail"),    path(        "<uuid:pk>/modal/",        LocationDetail.as_view(template_name=         "locations/location_detail_modal.html"),        name="location_detail_modal",    ),]

2. Create a template for the modal dialog:

{# locations/location_detail_modal.html ...