Override helptext in Wagtail EditView

Question

I am trying to override the helptext that is set in my model in the wagtail admin (an edit view). I have tried the code below but the text is not changed, why is that?

    class MemberRegistrationEditView(EditView):

        def get_form(self):
            form = super().get_form()
            form.base_fields.get("own_email").help_text = "Test"
            return form

maybe first use `print()` in `get_form` to see if this function is executed. — furas, Nov 23 '21 at 10:11
you could use `print()` to check what you have in `.help_text` before assigning `Test`. Maybe it doesn't exist and you use wrong field. — furas, Nov 23 '21 at 11:30
@furas I have used breakpoints to check that it is actually overriding the correct field, but that does not reflect when the full page is loaded — Andreas, Nov 26 '21 at 12:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '21 at 17:19

Thanks for posting your question. I understand what you're trying to achieve i think. Generally speaking though, and others may disagree, but I would do this inside of the forms dunder init function (__init__)

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.base_fields['own_email'].help_text = "Test"
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Its worth noting that this will replace the help text for every time this particular form is used.

If you want to do something specific while in a certain view, then I would recommend simply inheriting the form you want instead of forms.Form and then replace the form attribute on the view for your new form.

Override helptext in Wagtail EditView

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