Add/Remove buttons on a collection

[lsmoker]

Is there a good way to remove these buttons when you only want to allow viewing or editing of existing records? For now, I'm removing the buttons with javascript, but that feels hackish.

[lsmoker]

Could this be done by overriding the formset/default/collection.html template and how would that be done?

[jrief]

I assume you mean a collection with siblings. Then the question is, why you want to remove them? Is it because the user shall not be able to add and remove siblings because min_siblings == max_siblings?

Hmm, good point. I agree that in such a situation, those buttons indeed don't make sense. I think this then is a valid feature request.

Is that your use-case?

[lsmoker]

The use case is that the records/siblings will only be added or removed by another process, and the form is only being used to present the information and allow updates to one field.

[lsmoker]

Overriding formset/default/collection.html and subclassing FormRenderer like so:

from django.template.loader import get_template

class NoAddRemoveFormRenderer(FormRenderer):
    def get_template(self, template_name):
        return get_template(template_name)

class LoanCollection(FormCollection):
    default_renderer = NoAddRemoveFormRenderer()
    template_name = 'formset/default/collection.html'
    min_siblings = 0
    ...

... "works" to remove the buttons but then django-formset.js throws an error - <django-form-collection> with siblings requires child element <button class="remove-collection">

So back to my js hack.

[lsmoker]

Actually, CSS makes it simple...

<style>
django-formset django-form-collection button.add-collection,button.remove-collection {
    display: None;
}
</style>

Not pythonic at all though...