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PODjango: can i give an argument to a form to use it for different cases?
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copied!<p>i'm new to Django and i use one form twice for user accounts (username, password). The first user is required, the second one is alternatively. </p> <p>The problem is, that the checkbox is displayed by the required, too. Can i give an argument to the view to avoid the checkbox by the first user and display it for a second user? I wanna do a case like</p> <p>Is that possible? I dont wanna write two different classes with the same fields just because one different field.</p> <p>My code:</p> <p>views.py</p> <pre><code>if request.method == "POST": admin_form = MysqlDatabaseForm_user(request.POST or None, given_argument='admin') user_form = MysqlDatabaseForm_user(request.POST or None, given_argument='extra_user') if admin_form.is_valid(): #do something if user_form.is_valid(): #do something else: admin_form = MysqlDatabaseForm_user() user_form = MysqlDatabaseForm_user() return TemplateResponse(request, "services/database/add_service_database.html", {'admin_form': admin_form, 'user_form': user_form},) </code></pre> <p>forms.py</p> <pre><code>class MysqlDatabaseForm_user(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = MysqlUser def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): given_argument = kwargs.pop('given_argument', None) super(MysqlDatabaseForm_user, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) if given_argument == 'extra_user': self.fields['extra_user'] = forms.BooleanField(required=False) else: self.fields[given_argument] = forms.BooleanField(required=False) </code></pre> <p>The else-case is for screening, what is in "given_argument". it seems to be empty</p>

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