Create a viewlet with custom form e.g. Inquiry about a product

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I have a bit of a hard time finding a useful example of code for a viewlet with a custom z3c.form where users could send an inquiry about a product they are just seeing.
Please :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: does somebody have a good pointer?

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What is the question?
Writing a z3c.form based form does not differ from it usage in a portlet, a browser view or a viewlet...basically all the same.

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I was not sure of what I was doing wrong. My viewlet looks following:

from Acquisition import aq_inner
from plone.app.layout.viewlets import ViewletBase
from plone.z3cform import z2
from plone.z3cform.interfaces import IWrappedForm
from plonetheme.vox.browser.forms.inquiry_form import InquiryForm
from Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile import ViewPageTemplateFile
from z3c.form.interfaces import IFormLayer
from zope.interface import alsoProvides


class InquiryViewlet(ViewletBase):

    form = InquiryForm
    index = ViewPageTemplateFile("inquiry-viewlet.pt")

    def update(self):
        super(InquiryViewlet, self).update()
        z2.switch_on(self, request_layer=IFormLayer)
        self.form = self.form(aq_inner(self.context), self.request)
        alsoProvides(self.form, IWrappedForm)
        self.form.update()

But I figured out the problem was in the InquiryForm because I had a template there:

class InquiryForm(AutoExtensibleForm, group.GroupForm, form.Form):

    enableCSRFProtection = True
    enable_form_tabbing = False

    schema = IInquiryForm
    form_name = "inquiry_form"

    template = ViewPageTemplateFile('../templates/inquiry_form.pt')

    [...]

After removing the template line, the viewlet started rendering fine. Is this supposed to be like that?