id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 11674 documentation clarifications on ModelForms & ModelFormsets Meta fields david.h.haas@… Raúl Cumplido "Based on discussion from this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/19a8b01d87819119/217ac9ecee6f474f the documentation of the fields attribute of a ModelForms inner Meta class should be clarified/expanded. Basically, add a sentence that states if you define fields (or excludes) on an inner Meta class, any excluded field 1) will not appear on the form by default, 2) will not be initialized from a model instance if manually added back to the form, and 3) will not be set by the form's save method. A similar caveat should be added to the ModelFormset documentation. In the current documentation: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#using-a-subset-of-fields-on-the-form Points 1 & 3 are mentioned, but 2 is not. " Cleanup/optimization closed Documentation dev Normal fixed ModelForm, Meta class, easy-pickings Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 1 0