The difference between the 3 formset factories is basically: formset_factory lets you render a bunch of forms together, but these forms are NOT necessarily related to a particular database models (this is not what you need, since you have models for everything) modelformset_factory lets you create/edit a bunch of Django model objects together, for example, … Read more
If you want to use a custom widget template stored somewhere under your “TEMPLATES” directory of your project then follow these steps: a) Use the TEMPLATES settings that you have provided in your question b) Set the FORM_RENDERER as following in the settings.py FORM_RENDERER = ‘django.forms.renderers.TemplatesSetting’ c) Add the app “django.forms” to the ‘INSTALLED_APPS‘ list … Read more
You can create a custom widget: from django import forms class DateInput(forms.DateInput): input_type=”date” class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = MyModel fields=”__all__” widgets = { ‘my_date’: DateInput() }
If you use the save method right now, Django will try to save using the manager (which Django doesn’t allow). Unfortunately, the behavior you want is a little bit trickier than what ModelForm does by default. What you need to do is create a formset. First of all, you will need to change the options … Read more
The reason you don’t want to do this is because someone can change your disabled field to enabled and then submit the form. You would have to change the save function as to not insert the “disabled” data. The standard way to do this is to not put the name in an input, but to … Read more
You’re halfway there – you’ve successfully built a custom form that replaces the default form. But you’re attempting to do your custom processing with a save() method on your model form. That was possible in older versions of django-registration, but I can see from the fact that you specified a backend in your URL conf … Read more
In a ModelForm, the instance is accessible via self.instance self.instance.first == self.cleaned_data.get(“second”) http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#overriding-the-clean-method
If you want to explicitly set the action, assuming you have a variable username in your template, <form name=”form” method=”post” action=”{% url myview.views username %}”> or you could assign a name for the url in your urls.py so you could reference it like this: # urls.py urlpatterns += patterns(‘myview.views’, url(r’^(?P<user>\w+)/’, ‘myview’, name=”myurl”), # I can’t … Read more
Having an action of an empty string in most browsers points the form at the URL the browser currently has loaded, which is the script that served the form in the first place.
This is my simple solution: render CheckboxSelectMultiple() manually in template <table> <thead> <tr> <td> </td> <td>V</td> <td>S</td> </tr> </thead> {% for pk, choice in form.options.field.widget.choices %} <tr> <td><a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/link/{{ choice }}”>{{ choice }}</a></td> <td> <label for=”id_options_{{ forloop.counter0 }}”> <input {% for m2moption in model.m2moptions.all %}{% if option.pk == pk %}checked=”checked”{% endif %}{% endfor %} type=”checkbox” id=”id_options_{{ … Read more