Dialog form as a form collection

[Alex-Sichkar]

Is it possible to use a dialog form as a form collection?

[jrief]

This currently is difficult. Reason is that a form used in a dialog interacts with that dialog. Therefore it's written as <form … method="dialog">. By using a form collection, we would lose that interaction.

Btw. Please have a look at the dialog in the upcoming version. It now is more generic, implemented as webcomponent and could be a starting point for such a feature.

[jrief]

Please checkout https://github.com/jrief/django-formset/tree/ModelAdmin-support
and read the documentation on CollectionField. There you can attach a complete collection into a Form. I haven't tested this yet, but this should also work with dialogs. On submission, you can then use the serialized collection data and in your view, do whatever you like with it.

Let me know if it works for you.

[Alex-Sichkar]

As I see, you have released 2.0rc1, and it seems there are quite a few breaking changes. Since the online documentation for v2 is not available, I tried to build it locally but ran into an issue.

While running:

sphinx-build -M json docs/source build

I get the following error:

Running Sphinx v7.3.7

Extension error:
Could not import extension sphinx_toolbox.assets (exception: No module named 'sphinx_toolbox')

Could you point me in the right direction to resolve this?

Also, regarding the Dialog Form reimplementing - does it cover cases where the dialog form includes, for example, a model form along with a collection of related model forms?

[jrief]

Deploying the interactive documentation requires these extra libraries:

pip install django Pillow uWSGI docutils django-filter Sphinx sphinx-toolbox furo django-countries phonenumbers
pip install https://github.com/jrief/django-sphinx-view/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

they are referenced here:

django-formset/.deployment/Dockerfile

Line 22 in 25e03a3

RUN pip install django Pillow uWSGI docutils django-filter Sphinx sphinx-toolbox furo django-countries phonenumbers