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Detail View refers to a view (logic) to display a par ticular instance of a table from the

database with all the necessar y details. It is used to display multiple types of data on

a single page or view, for example, profile of a user. Django provides extra-ordinar y

suppor t for Detail Views but let ’s check how it is done manually through a function-

based view. This ar ticle revolves around Detail View which involves concepts such as

Django Forms, Django Models. 

For Detail View, we need a project with some models and multiple instances which

will be displayed.

Django Detail View – Function Based Views

Illustration of How to create and use Detail view using an Example. Consider a

project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks. 

Refer to the following ar ticles to check how to create a project and an app in

Django. 

How to Create a Basic Project using MV T in Django?

How to Create an App in Django ?

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Af ter you have a project and an app, let ’s create a model of which we will be creating
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instances through our view. In geeks/models.py, 

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# import the standard Django Model

# from built-in library
from django.db import models
  
# declare a new model with a name "GeeksModel"
class GeeksModel(models.Model):
 
    # fields of the model
    title = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    description = models.TextField()
 
    # renames the instances of the model
    # with their title name
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

Af ter creating this model, we need to run two commands in order to create Database

for the same. 

Python manage.py makemigrations

Python manage.py migrate

Now let ’s create some instances of this model using shell, run form bash, 

Python manage.py shell

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Enter following commands 

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>>> from geeks.models import GeeksModel
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>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(

title="title1",

description="description1").save()

>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(

title="title2",

description="description2").save()

>>> GeeksModel.objects.create(

title="title3",

description="description3").save()

Now we have ever ything ready for back end. Verif y that instances have been created

from http://localhost:8000/admin/geeks/geeksmodel/ 

For detail_view one would need some identification to get a par ticular instance of the

model. Usually it is unique primar y key such as id. To specif y this identification we

need to define it in urls.py. Go to geeks/urls.py, 

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from django.urls import path

 
# importing
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urlpatterns = [

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Let ’s create a view and template for the same. In geeks/views.py,

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from django.shortcuts import render

 
# relative import of forms
from .models import GeeksModel
 
# pass id attribute from urls
def detail_view(request, id):
    # dictionary for initial data with
    # field names as keys
    context ={}
 
    # add the dictionary during initialization
    context["data"] = GeeksModel.objects.get(id = id)
         
    return render(request, "detail_view.html", context)

Create a template in templates/Detail_view.html, 

html

<div class="main">
     
    <!-- Specify fields to be displayed -->
    {{ data.title }}<br/>
    {{ data.description }}<br/>
 
</div>

Let ’s check what is there on http://localhost:8000/1 

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Bingo..!! Detail view is working fine. One can also display selected fields according to

type of usage required in multiple forms. Of ten it is not the id which is used to define

the detail view it is the slug. To know more about slug and SlugField visit – Add the

slug field inside Django Model

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