Formset renders without required id field

[awgymer]

• Package version: 2.0
• Django version: 4.2.4
• Python version: 3.11.4
• Template pack: (Optional) bootstrap5

Description:

Following the docs here I tried to render each form in a formset individually (I am rendering each form in an accordion group and I don't think you can achieve that with FormHelper/Layout?).

However I was getting validation errors:

[{'id': ['This field is required.']}, {'id': ['This field is required.']}, {'id': ['This field is required.']}]

Some googling let to very old issues #143 and #266 and it seems that this only works if you add helper.render_unmentioned_fields.

If this isn't the case and I am doing something wrong then would be good to know what.
If it is the case then would be good to update the docs to make this clear.

[smithdc1]

Thanks for the comment.

As you are familiar with this issue. What specific changes to the docs do you think would have helped with this issue?

[awgymer]

So on further inspection I think it might actually be a ModelForm + Layout issue rather than a formset issue.

Basically if you specify a helper.layout and don't include id field then it won't be rendered which leads to this issue. The only real way to fix this is by adding the render_unmentioned property or by setting the somewhat unclear id field explicitly.