The included urlconf manager.urls doesn't have any patterns in it
A solution: Found the following django snippet that seems to work fine ( http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2445/ ) from django.utils.functional import lazy from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse #Workaround for using reverse with success_url in class based generic views #because direct usage of it throws an exception. reverse_lazy = lambda name=None, *args : lazy(reverse, str)(name, args=args) Apparently, there is now a reverse_lazy function in django trunk. Update: This error has something to do with me making a call to reverse inside a generic view: class AddObjView(CreateView): form