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Max Crowe
Max Crowe

Reputation: 385

How to customize Django inline admin forms based on the object instance

The Django documentation makes it clear how to customize ModelForm instances based on the attributes of the particular Model instance being edited. However, I am working with a design that involves a lot of foreign key relationships between models, and I keep running into situations where I would like to modify a particular inline form instance based on the inline Model associated with it. I have dug through the documentation and the code, but the solution for this is eluding me.

The closest thing to a hook for this that I've been able to find is InlineModelAdmin.get_formset(), but the object instance that gets passed to that method is the parent object, not an instance of the child object. My instinct is that there is a way to do this, though. Does anybody know the proper way?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1737

Answers (1)

vishen
vishen

Reputation: 469

I am not 100% sure I fully understand what you are asking, but you can specify a forms.ModelForm for the admin inline (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.InlineModelAdmin.form) and that receives an instance of the current inline object and then you can change the form fields based on the instance.

Upvotes: 3

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