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Ticket #9746 (closed: invalid)

Opened 7 months ago

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Using a custom widget for a item in ModelForm should use the model verbose_name?

Reported by: waltercruz Assigned to: nobody
Milestone: Component: Forms
Version: 1.0 Keywords: forms, model, verbose name, label
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Hi all! To simplify my question, I will use a sample code from the docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/?from=olddocs#a-full-example.

Say, by example, that I have added verbose names to the three fields, name as "Full Name", title as "Honor Title" and birth_date as "Birthday". Using a custom widget on a model form (like the sample, widget=forms.Select(choices=TITLE_CHOICES) to the title field) will make my form don't use the verbose name from the modelas the label. To add the correct label, I've to add a label='Something'. I expected that the generated model would use the verbose names from the model, even if I override some widget. Am I right in my expectation?

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12/03/08 07:48:52 changed by waltercruz

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12/03/08 10:40:57 changed by brosner

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This is documented behavior. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#overriding-the-default-field-types. You either just have to re-specify it or override the ModelForm's __init__ and pop the widget it through self.fields.

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