How can i access the model instance used by a form from a template?

Question

I am iterating over a formset made of modelforms in my template. I want to provide aditional information on that model. If the answer to this How to Access model from Form template in Django question would work, i could do this:

{% for form in formset.forms %}
Status:{{ form._meta.model.status }}
    {{form}}
{% endfor %}  

But that just throws the TemplateSyntaxError: Variables and attributes may not begin with underscores.

Answer 1

I don't think that's what you want to do. A model is a class: it won't have a status, as that's a field which only gets a value for a particular instance.

I suspect what you mean to do is access the model instance associated with the form, which is just form.instance.

Answer 2

If you create a property on the form that reads the value then you can access it very easily in the template.

class SomeForm(...):
  @property
  def status(self):
    return self._meta.model.status

...

       {{ form.status }}