Using multiple input fields for one model's attribute with django

Question

In models.py I have

class myModel:
    period = models.CharField(max_length = 100, blank=True)

the period should contain something like: DD:HH:MM:SS.

In the HTML template, I want this field to be in four different textbox input fields. Is there a way to do this in Django?

Answer 1

This is well documented: you need to create a subclass of forms.MultiValueField, which implements a compress method which returns the combined value of the fields. Note that there is already a SplitDateTimeField, but that just have two separate fields for each of the date and time.