Django want to display help_text

Hello I would like to disp开发者_JAVA百科lay this help text in my model forms called alternate_id. However I seem to be having trouble with this. It might be what I have written in my response context.

forms.py

alternate_id = forms.CharField(label = 'Client no', max_length = 400, required = False, help_text = 'Valid wildcard search is in the format *XX, *XX*, XX*')

views.py

def search_item(request, client_id = 0):
    # search form code
    return render_to_response('search_items.html', {'form':form, 'form.alternate_id':form.alternate_id}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))

search_items.html

<form action="." method="post">
        <fieldset class="model">
                {{ form.as_p }}
                {{ form.alternate_id.help_text }}
        </fieldset>

Maybe you should try removing form.alternate_id':form.alternate_id from your context dict. The form itself should contain the alternate_id field and its help text.