[Product-Developers] How to group fields in dexterity? Nested fieldsets possible?

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

"David Glick (Plone)" <david.glick at plone.org> writes:

> On 1/31/14, 11:30 AM, Maik Derstappen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm looking for a way, to group some fields in a dexterity model.
>> What i can do is, using a fieldset with plone.autoform, but this results
>> in tabs in the edit form, which is ok.
>> But what i whant is, inside one tab (fieldset) i will have some smaler
>> fieldsets to group fields together which are belong together like
>> date_from and date_to or some thing like this.
>>
>> z3c.form support nested groups (fieldsets) is there a way to do this in
>> Plone with dexterity?
>> Or how should i group fields in the dexterity edit form?
>>
>> thx for any hint
>>
> If you put enable_form_tabbing = False on the form class, Plone won't 
> turn the fieldsets into tabs.
>
> But if you want tabs *and* fieldsets within the tabs, I think you'll 
> need to write your own form template. The autoform fieldsets and the 
> default template in plone.app.z3cform only handle one level of
> fieldsets.

I needed something similar recently and have some patches for
plone.app.z3cform, plone.dexterity and plone.autoform to support nested
groups (that's what z3c.form calls fieldsets). This solves all the
low level problems I found with nested groups.

It does however not (yet) address the plone.autoform template part of
automatically generating HTML output for nested forms. You still need a
custom template. Patches welcome.

If now pushed my modifications into branches on github:
https://github.com/gaudenz/plone.z3cform/tree/nested-groups
https://github.com/plone/plone.autoform/tree/nested-groups
https://github.com/plone/plone.dexterity/tree/nested-groups

I'd appreciate a review of these branches. And if someone would write
some tests, the better. Template changes in plone.autoform to fully
support this would be appreciated too.

Gaudenz

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