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So I set up a login view, and upon successful login I'd like to go to a page of my choice by referencing another class based view. I'm not entirely sure how to achieve this.

Login view

def login_view(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':

        form =AuthenticationForm(data=request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():

            user=form.get_user()

            login(request,user)

            #Not sure what to do next

            #return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(request, Dashboard))?   

        else:

            #TODO

    else:

        form = AuthenticationForm()

Dashboard class I'm trying to get to

class Dashboard(ListView):

    model = models.Note

    template_name = 'notemanager/dashboard.html'



    def get_context_data(self, request,**kwargs):

        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

        notedata = models.Note.objects.filter(added_by = User)

        reminderdata = models.Reminder.objects.filter(added_by = User)

        context['notes'] = notedata

        context['reminder'] = reminderdata



        return context

urls.py

urlpatterns = [

    path('login/',views.Login.as_view(),name="login"),

    path('',views.Dashboard.as_view(), name ="dash")



]

In general, the way to redirect is by using the name of the url/route for the view you are using.

So if in your urls.py you had something like:

urlpatterns = [

    re_path('^dashboard$', Dashboard.as_view(), name='dashboard'),

]

You could reuse the name part of the route to send the user a 302 redirect using redirect:

from django.shortcuts import redirect



def login_view(request):

    if request.method == 'POST':

        form =AuthenticationForm(data=request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():

            user=form.get_user()

            login(request,user)

            #Not sure what to do next

            #return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(request, Dashboard))?   

            return redirect('dashboard')  # matches the name part of the route in urls.py

        else:

            #TODO

    else:

        form = AuthenticationForm()

n.b., you also have an error in your view. There is no request parameter to get_context_data, so it should look like:

class Dashboard(ListView):

    model = models.Note

    template_name = 'notemanager/dashboard.html'



    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

        notedata = models.Note.objects.filter(added_by = User)

        reminderdata = models.Reminder.objects.filter(added_by = User)

        context['notes'] = notedata

        context['reminder'] = reminderdata



        return context

Add redirect in your views.py,

def login_view(request):

if request.method == 'POST':

    form =AuthenticationForm(data=request.POST)

    if form.is_valid():

        user=form.get_user()

        login(request,user)

        return redirect('dash') #If you have mentioned app_name in urls.py add app_name:dash in place of dash    

    else:

        #TODO

else:

    form = AuthenticationForm()

In urls.py you have,

urlpatterns = [

     path('login/',views.Login.as_view(),name="login"),

     path('',views.Dashboard.as_view(), name ="dash"),

]

This will redirect users to 127.0.0.1:8000/