Ordering ModelAdmin form fields

[Alexandru Plugaru]

In order to create an custom ordering of ModelAdmin.form fields I had to do something like this:

class my_form(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CandidateAdminForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields = order_fields(self.fields) #Order fields in the desired fashion.

class my_admin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = my_form
    exclude=('field1', )
 
    @property
    def declared_fieldsets(self):
        fields = filter(lambda item: item not in self.exclude,
                        self.form().fields.keys())
        return ((None, {'fields': fields},),)

I do not think that such a trivial task should go through such a 'hack'. Can someone point out an easier solution to achieve the same thing?

[Karen Tracey]

"How do I?" questions are better asked on #django IRC or django-users; Trac is for bug reports. If simply listing the fields in the desired order in the ​fields attribute of the ModelAdmin class doesn't accomplish what you want, please follow up with more specifics of why not in one of those other places.