[Answer]-Django 1.4 Model formsets specify widget and change label

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In Django 1.4 you can override the widgets of a ModelForm. The modelformset_factory takes ModelForm as an argument.

I think you can acheive what you want by defining a model form with the required widgets, then use that model form when creating the formset. No backporting required.

class RegularAvailDateForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = AvailabilitySchedule
        fields = ('active','dow', 'hour_start', 'hour_end')
        widgets = {
            'active' :  CheckboxInput(),
            'dow': HiddenInput(),
            'hour_start': NumberInput(attrs={'min': '0', 'max': '23', 'step': '1'}),
            'hour_end': NumberInput(attrs={'min': '1', 'max': '24', 'step': '1'}),
        }

FormSet = modelformset_factory(AvailabilitySchedule, RegularAvailDateForm)

The same goes for the second part of your question. Don’t dig deep into the formset code to try and set the label of a model form. Just pass modelformset_factory a model form that sets the correct labels in its __init__ method.

👤Alasdair

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