Django form validation, raise error on fieldset - django

Question

I know how to raise an error on a specific field in my django admin form, but I would like the error to be raised on a fieldset. I currently have a list of check boxes in a fieldset and would like an error to be raised, not on a specific field (aka specific check box), but on the entire fieldset.
here is my django admin.py
class EventAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = EventForm
fieldsets = [
(None, {'fields': [
'approval_state',
'title',
'description'
]
}
),
('Group Owner', {'fields': [
'grpOwner_vcoe',
'grpOwner_cssi',
'grpOwner_essc',
'grpOwner_tmscc',
'grpOwner_inmc',
'grpOwner_cc7',
'grpOwner_ias',
]
}
), ...
class EventForm(forms.ModelForm):
# Form validation
def clean(self):
# Collect data
start = self.cleaned_data.get('start')
end = self.cleaned_data.get('end')
grpOwner_vcoe = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_vcoe')
grpOwner_cssi = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_cssi')
grpOwner_essc = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_essc')
grpOwner_tmscc = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_tmscc')
grpOwner_inmc = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_inmc')
grpOwner_cc7 = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_cc7')
grpOwner_ias = self.cleaned_data.get('grpOwner_ias')
if not (grpOwner_vcoe or grpOwner_cssi or grpOwner_essc or grpOwner_tmscc or grpOwner_inmc or grpOwner_cc7 or grpOwner_ias):
if not self._errors.has_key('Group Owner'):
self._errors['Group Owner'] = ErrorList()
self._errors['Group Owner'].append('Test')
# Check start & end data
if start > end:
if not self._errors.has_key('start'):
self._errors['start'] = ErrorList()
self._errors['start'].append('Event start must occur before event end')
return self.cleaned_data
But this doesn't, I know I can just raise it on each field but I find it much more elegant if I could do it around the fielset

Answer 1

Django forms don't have a concept of fieldsets, they belong to the ModelAdmin class. Therefore there isn't an established way to assign errors to a fieldset instead of a particular field.
You could try overriding the admin templates, in particular, includes/fieldset.html. You could add some code to your form's clean method to make it easy to access the fieldset errors in the template.