This may be basic, but I've spent two days, read countless tutorials and I still can not get this to work. For simplicitly I tried to accomplish a basic task just to see it work. I want to send make an ajax call to my donate view. I see that it successfully passes through but I was expecting that my template would also get updated to "TRUE" but it remains "FALSE". Any help or suggestions I appreciate. 

my jquery...

```
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url:"/donate/",
    data: {
    'test': 'success',
    },
    success: function(){
      alert('test')
     },
    error: function(){
        alert("Error");
});

```

this is my view... 

```
def donate(request):
    if request.is_ajax():
        test = "TRUE"

    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = DonateForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
    else:
        form = DonateForm()
        test = "FALSE"

    return render_to_response('donate_form.html', {'form':form,'test':test}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

```

my template include this...

```
<h1>{{ test }}</h1>

```

Update/Solution
---------------

Like mentioned in the comments on this question, I was not doing anything the the returned data. I updated my success call to the following and it worked 

```
    $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url:"/donate/",
    data: {
    'zip': zip,
    },
    success: function(data){            

        results = $(data).find('#results').html()               
        $("#id_date").replaceWith("<span>" + results + "</span >");

    },
    error: function(){
        alert("Error");
    },

```