django-durationwidget 1.0.4

Django Duration field widget to handle duration field in the form

Django Duration Widget

When to use?

You can find duration field as below which is not far good for humans to use.

Django duration widget is used for simplfiend Django model's Duration field.

Quick start

1. Install django-durationwidget using pip

   pip install django-durationwidget

2. Add durationwidget to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this::

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'durationwidget',
   ]
   

3. Make sure to set APP_DIRS to True in settings.py

   TEMPLATES = [
       {
           'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
           'DIRS': [
               os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
               ...
           ],
           'APP_DIRS': True,  # Setup this to True
           'OPTIONS': {
               ...
           },
       },
   ]
   

4. Cheer up you are ready to use TimeDurationWidget as normal widget as below.

   from django import forms
   from durationwidget.widgets import TimeDurationWidget
   
   from .models import YourModel
   
   
   class CustomForm(forms.ModelForm):
       ...
       duration = forms.DurationField(widget=TimeDurationWidget(), required=False)
   
       class Meta:
           model = YourModel
           ...
   

It will render Duration field as below

TimeDurationWidget

duration = forms.DurationField(widget=TimeDurationWidget(
    show_days=True, show_hours=True, show_minutes=True, show_seconds=True
), required=False)

Following keyword argument can be passed to show/ hide fields in duration widget.

By default all keyword arguments are set to True

show_days : To display/ hide days field in widget
show_hours : To display/ hide hours field in widget
show_minutes : To display/ hide minutes field in widget
show_seconds : To display/ hide seconds field in widget