I think that you aren't expected to use formwidget outside the template definition i.e. outside of /packages/acs-templating/resources/forms/foo-bar-baz.adp. And there you'd have to have it as part of a multiple. I may be mistaken though. What are you intending to do, btw? What part of standard ad_form rendering does not satisfy your need? How about using CSS to solve it? By having a {html {id requiredhits}} added in .tcl and designing a stylesheet to layout RADIO#requiredhits differently from normal RADIO?