I recently ported an extensive sf 1.0 admin console to the new sf 1.2 admin generator system. One difference I struggled with was that the sf 1.2 admin generator does not include the label or help text on partial fields. Sometimes this is good -- if you are making a partial which is so different from a regular field that you want to handle all of that yourself -- but most of the time I would like my partial to be able to take advantage of the label and help text defined in the generator.yml.
What I ended up doing to support this was creating an admin generator theme based on the standard sfDoctrinePlugin admin theme with a slight modification to _form_field.php. Essentially I added a new field option to the admin generator called "inline_partial". If
this option is true, a regular form label and the help text are included. Otherwise, the behavior is as it was before. I thought I'd suggest an option like this as a core feature, since I can't imagine I'm the only one transitioning from 1.0 to 1.2 and running into this issue.
I will attach a diff from my admin generator theme showing exactly what I changed. I'm sure this could be done more elegantly by someone a little more intimately familiar with this system than I am.
