Django formsets: make first required?
- by Mark
These formsets are exhibiting exactly the opposite behavior that I want.
My view is set up like this:
def post(request): # TODO: handle vehicle formset
VehicleFormSetFactory = formset_factory(VehicleForm, extra=1)
if request.POST:
vehicles_formset = VehicleFormSetFactory(request.POST)
else:
vehicles_formset = VehicleFormSetFactory()
And my template looks like this:
<div id="vehicle_forms">
{{ vehicles_formset.management_form }}
{% for form in vehicles_formset.forms %}
<h4>Vehicle {{forloop.counter}}</h4>
<table>
{% include "form.html" %}
</table>
{% endfor %}
</div>
That way it initially generates only 1 form, like I want. But I want that one form to be required!
When I dynamically add blank forms with JavaScript and vehicles_formset.empty_form all those extra forms are required, which I don't want.
From the docs:
The formset is smart enough to ignore extra forms that were not changed.
This is the behavior the first form is exhibiting (not what I want) but not the behavior that the extra forms are exhibiting (what I do want).
Is there some attribute I can can change to at least make one form required?
