Django and fieldsets on ModelForm

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 somet

Answer 1

One thing you can do is break your logical fieldsets into separate model form classes.

class PersonalInfoForm (forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model=MyModel
        fields=('field1', 'field2', ...)

class TermsForm (forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model=MyModel
        fields=('fieldX', 'fieldY', ...)

Pass them to your template in different variables and break up the formsets:

   
Personal Information
       {{ personal_info_form }}
   
   
Terms and Conditions
       {{ terms_form }}
   

In that sense each of your form classes is just a fragment of the actual HTML form.

It introduces a touch of complexity when you call save on the form. You'll probably want to pass commit=False and then merge the resultant objects. Or just avoid using ModelForm.save altogether and populate your model object by hand with 'cleaned_data'