On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:32 -0800, adrian wrote: > > Is there a way to display a form with fields grouped using fieldsets, > without entering all the html manually in the view? The Form I have > in mind is generated directly from a Model. I see that the admin has > this feature but it isn't mentioned anywhere else in the doc.
The way admin does it is somewhat specific to the admin. But if something in Django already does what you want, that's a clue: look at how Django does it. Change into the django/contrib/admin/ directory and search for the word "fieldset". You'll see references to InlineAdminForm and might be able to write an equivalent of something like that for yourself. > This would have two advantages - one it's an easy way to control > display of fields in the view without loads of manual html. Since I > have choices for some of my fields, the manual html is large and > clutters up my view. > > Second it would let me reorder the fields in the view with affecting > the model. Once a database is live it's not so easy to change it but > I'd still like the freedom to change the view it's based on (without > voluminous html). Django's form classes are designed to be subclassed and extended and we intentionally don't try to do more than provide the basic foundation, as there are far too many possibilities to try and cover the field (it would also be seen as too generally restrictive). So do that. Write some Python code that does what you want. Use InlineAdminForm as inspiration. If your code turns out to be wonderfully useful, stick it up on Google code or somewhere as a useful library that others might want to use. Or not. I'm really not trying to be dismissive here. This is an expectation thing. In many cases, you are expected to build on top of what Django provides. Certainly have a look and ask, as you're doing, to see if the code already exists in Django. However, don't be afraid or shocked when it requires building on top of the existing libraries (again, not assuming you will have that reaction, but it seems to be a common enough response). Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
