I have a page with a POST form, that have a action set to some url.
i.e assume this page url is /form_url/ :
..
The view in /sub
from django.contrib.messages.views import SuccessMessageMixin
from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView
from myapp.models import Author
class AuthorCreate(SuccessMessageMixin, CreateView):
model = Author
success_url = '/success/'
success_message = "%(name)s was created successfully"
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/messages/