Allow inline fields to be "mixed in" with the models' own fields

[leifbyron]

In newforms-admin, it would be quite helpful to be able to specify both a models' fields and its inline models' fields in the fields tuple of the options class. This would allow inline model fields to be "mixed in" with the models' own fields on the model's admin page. There are many situations where this would be preferable to the current situation -- always having inline model fields rendered below the models' own fields.

I suggested this feature in the Django-developers group, and Adrian suggested that I open a ticket.

​http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/c54d026eb46ad375/93bebf102281bb41#93bebf102281bb41

[anonymous]

Yes, I recently stumbled across that missing feature and I agree that it would be highly desirable. --lupo

[jkocherhans]

I'd rather come up with some way of naming each inline and using those names in the fields or fieldsets, but allowing inline forms to be placed in the middle of other form fields would be a great feature.

[Brian Rosner]

This can be written backward compatible after the merge of newforms-admin.

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[mlindsey]

I would also like to see this feature.

[Ramiro Morales]

#14491 asked for the possibility to intermix inlines with fieldsets and was closed as duplicate of this ticket.

[Karolis Ryselis]

Is this still relevant? My vision on this is to promote inlines to fieldsets. It could look like this in admin class:

fieldsets = (
    ("Normal fieldset", {"fields": ("main_model_field1", "main_model_field2")}),
    ("Related inline fieldset", {"inline_class": RelatedModelInline})
)

We could keep the current inlines attribute for backwards compatibility and add those inlines as last fieldsets to the form. Getting inlines for form submission would require checking fieldsets instead of inlines.

I could implement this feature.

[Frank Sachsenheim]

@Karolis, i think the proposal formulated by @jkocherhans is more flexible as it allows multiple inlines mxied with fields within a fieldset.

[Alex Scott]

Is anyone working on this?

One "solution" that I found:
​https://github.com/dezede/dezede/commit/ed13ccaf34494e71fd913fd785c229052f6acdc8

Another:
​https://linevi.ch/en/django-inline-in-fieldset.html

I've never contributed before but if some would weigh in on what they think the cleanest solution would be, I could maybe attempt something.

[frnhr]

A similar feature was asked for in #15859, closed as a duplicate of this ticket.

[frnhr]

There seems to be a working app for this: ​https://github.com/robertkovac/django-fieldsets-with-inlines
I would love to see it built in.