Question

I have a form in my Django that looks something like this:

class PersonnelForm(forms.Form):
    """
    Form for creating a new personnel.
    """
    username = forms.RegexField(
        required=True, max_length=30, label=_("Name")
    )
    is_manager = forms.BooleanField(
        required=True, label=_("Is Manager")
    )

I use this form in two places in my site. One one of the places, I’d like to display the form and all of its fields except the is_manager field but I would like to set the default value of this field to True. In the other place, I’d like to display the form and all of its fields including the is_manager field and I would like it to have a default value of False.

How can I accomplish this? Seems to be a trivial thing but I can’t figure it out.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could use the form’s __init__ method to hide (or delete) the field, i.e.

class PersonnelForm(forms.Form):
    """
    Form for creating a new personnel.
    """
    username = forms.RegexField(
        required=True, max_length=30, label=_("Name")
    )
    is_manager = forms.BooleanField(
        required=True, label=_("Is Manager")
    )

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        delete_some_field = kwargs.get('delete_some_field', False)
        if 'delete_some_field' in kwargs:
            del kwargs['delete_some_field']
        super(PersonnelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if delete_some_field:
            del self.fields['is_manager']
            # or
            self.fields['is_manager'].widget = something_else

#views.py
form = PersonnelForm(...., delete_some_field=True)