Hello, It would be great if one of the Gurus could spend some time to answer this kind of questions. I am trying to do something similar. But so far I haven't been able to achieve this. I am looking for a way to build dynamically a form representing a mashup of several models and its associated view.
Thank you On Jun 29, 3:45 am, Michael Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use newforms and templates, together with the following > models, to mimic what the admin application does with num_in_admin : > provide a form for Person's fields, and multiple Phone forms. > > With just one Phone form things are quite straightforward: validate > the Person form, and if that passes, save the object, get its ID, fill > the ID field of the Phone object and then save it. > > With multiple Phone forms, however, I have not been able to customize > the HTML IDs of the various fields -- form_for_model generates > identical forms! > > One can modify form_for_model with a custom formfield_callback > function, but as far as I can tell, it maps a field name to a field > object, so it won't be enough to override that. > > Is there a way to do this sort of things cleanly, short of using the > newforms-admin branch of Django? Or do I have to do something like > changing the form's fields attribute by hand? > > Thanks, > > -- M. Sylvan > > class Person(models.Model): > firstName = models.CharField(maxlength=32) > lastName = models.CharField(maxlength=32) > > class Phone(models.Model): > person = models.ForeignKey(Person) > number = models.CharField(maxlength=24, core=True) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
