I believe the idea is that if you override a field in your custom form, you are then working off the default implementation of a field, which doesn't include any of the niceties that the admin has added for you.
keith On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, mthorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Keith, that worked perfectly. Can you tell me the reason I have > to use the admin widgets and can't use regular form widgets as I might > with any other form? > > > > On Oct 17, 7:11 am, "Keith Eberle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a project where I needed to set the initial value to the current > > week's week ending date (Sat), so I needed a custom form too. I used the > > AdminDateWidget, but I think this will be the correct widget for your > needs. > > > > # import the widgets > > from django.contrib.admin import widgets > > > > # use the widget on this line > > date = forms.DateTimeField(widget=widgets.AdminSplitDateTime) > > > > keith > > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM, mthorley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, I'm building a custom admin site with a custom form and the > > > datetime widget shows up as a text input. When I set the widget for > > > the date field to textarea I get a textarea, but when I set it to > > > datetime, I get I text input. I also tried not specifying any widget > > > and I still get just a text input. > > > > > Can some one please tell me why or how to fix it? > > > > > Thanks much > > > -- > > > matthew > > > > > from django import forms > > > from django.contrib import admin > > > from colorcode.trainertools.models import Workshop > > > > > class WorkshopForm(forms.Form): > > > name = forms.CharField(max_length=64) > > > date = forms.DateTimeField(widget=forms.DateTimeInput()) > > > code = forms.CharField() > > > > > class WorkshopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): > > > def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs): > > > return WorkshopForm > > > > > trainers_admin = admin.sites.AdminSite() > > > trainers_admin.register(Workshop, WorkshopAdmin) > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
