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Migrate from Django's builtins to django-formrenderingtools
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How to safely migrate an existing project from standard Django's practices to
django-formrenderingtools? Here are some guidelines.


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Install django-formrenderingtools
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See :doc:`install` for details.


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Replace {{ form }} by {% form %} in your templates
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In the templates you edit, feel free to replace any:

* ``{{ form }}`` by ``{% form layout="as_table" %}``
* ``{{ form.as_p }}`` by ``{% form layout="as_p" %}``
* ``{{ form.as_ul }}`` by ``{% form layout="as_ul" %}``
* ``{{ form.as_table }}`` by ``{% form layout="as_table" %}``

.. note::

   django-formrenderingtools' builtin "as_*" layouts reproduce Django's
   behavior. Tests are written to check this fact.


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Migrate custom layouts and includes
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Search for any ``{{ form.* }}`` occurrence in templates. You should be able to
replace these occurrence with some django-formrenderingtools features.

If you already used snippets via ``{% include %}``, you should consider
migrating the templates to django-formrenderingtools (see
:doc:`reference/template_names`):

* it proposes a convention of directory structure;
* if new features (such as template loading optimizations) are released, you'll
  automatically get them.