On 5/11/07, Joseph Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/29/07, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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.
I've got a working implementation and some proof-of-concept tests; would you like me to clean this up and push it into the trunk, or do you want to handle it yourself? > > 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? > > > +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. I would have thought reverse foreign key would have be more like m2m than edit inline. The reverse case is more like 'which of these objects are have FK relations pointing to this one?', so a 'select multiple' widget would be appropriate. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
