On 4/29/07, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there room for a 'fields' argument on form_for_instance and > form_for_model - a list of field names that you want included on the > form (defaulting to None, meaning the full list), so that it is simple > to create a form with a subset of a model's full field list? > > I realize that you can subclass the form class returned by the > form_for_ methods and delete the fields you don't want, but 'form from > field subset' seems like a fairly common use case that can be very > easily accommodated.
+1. I'm planning on adding a similar argument to edit-inline. Writing a one-off formfield_callback seems like an awful lot of work for such a common task. I'm sure the same thing could be implemented as a wrapper around the form_for_ functions using formfield_callback, but I don't see any particular reason to do it that way as long as the behavior of the 'fields' argument was documented as Malcolm said. > 2) I realize that there are historical (i.e., > manipulator/pre-magic-removal related) reasons why reverse ForeignKey > and M2M relations are not contained on forms, but is there any reason > that newforms should continue the tradition? > > We probably don't want to include reverse fields on forms by default > (if only for backwards compatibility), but providing an optional > argument (say, reverse_fields=(...), containing a list of reverse > descriptor names) on form_for_model and form_for_instance would allow > users to easily include reverse relations on a form. +1 for optionally doing this for ManyToManyField at least. Would the reverse ForeignKey interface be similar to edit_inline? I think once I finish the formset-model integration code, that should be pretty simple to pull off. Joseph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
