Question

I know you can specify fieldsets in django for Admin helpers. However, I cannot find anything useful for ModelForms. Just some patches which I cannot use. Am I missing something? Is there a way I could achieve something like fieldsets without manually writing out each field on my template in the appropriate tag.

I would ideally like to iterate through a set of BoundFields. However, doing something like this at the end of my ModelForm:

    fieldsets = []     fieldsets.append(('Personal Information',                       [username,password,password2,first_name,last_name,email]),) # add a 2 element tuple of string and list of fields     fieldsets.append(('Terms & Conditions',                       [acceptterms,acceptprivacy]),) # add a 2 element tuple of string and list of fields 

fails as the items contained in my data structure are the raw fields, not the BoundFields. t looks like BoundFields are generated on the fly… this makes me sad. Could I create my own subclass of forms.Form which contains a concept of fieldsets (even a rough one that is not backward compatible… this is just for my own project) and if so, can you give any pointer? I do not want to mess with the django code.

Answer 1

Fieldsets in modelforms are still in ‘design’ stage. There’s a ticket in Django trac with low activity.

It’s something I’ve been interested in researching myself in the near future, but since I haven’t done it yet the best I can offer are these snippets:

• Form splitting/Fieldset templatetag
• Sectioned Form
• Forms splitted in fieldsets

Edit: I just noticed this question again and I realize it needs an edit to point out Carl’s project django-form-utils which contains a BetterForm class which can contain fieldsets. If you like this project give him a +1 for his answer below 🙂