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    <p>I have a Django model:</p> <pre><code>class Customer(models.Model): first_name=models.CharField(max_length=20,null=True, blank=True) last_name=models.CharField(max_length=25,null=True, blank=True) address=models.CharField(max_length=60,null=True, blank=True) address2=models.CharField(max_length=60,null=True, blank=True) city=models.CharField(max_length=40,null=True, blank=True) state=models.CharField(max_length=2,null=True, blank=True) </code></pre> <p>From there, I created a ModelForm:</p> <pre><code>class CustomerForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model=Customer </code></pre> <p>I'd like to be able to show pieces of the form in my template corresponding to specific information the users can change. For example, if I want to let the customers change their name, I'd like to be able to show a form that only has the fields 'first_name' and 'last_name'.</p> <p>One way to do this would be to create a ModelForm for each of the various field snippets... for the name example, it would look something like:</p> <pre><code>class CustomerFormName(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model=Customer fields=('first_name','last_name') </code></pre> <p>This seems pretty inelegant, and inflexible. What I'd like to do is be able to specify the fields at runtime, so when I pass the dictionary from the view to the template, I can just set which fields I'd like to show. How can I set it up so that I set the fields for a form at runtime? I'd ideally like the final dictionary passed to look something like this:</p> <pre><code>{'name_change_form':CustomerFormName(&lt;form with only first_name and last_name&gt;), 'address_change_form':CustomerFormName(&lt;form with only address fields&gt;)} </code></pre> <p>Then, I know that whenever I output name_change_form.as_p, it'll have exactly the form fields that I'm looking for.</p> <p>Thoughts? Also feel free to recommend a better way to do it.</p>
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