Multi object form

[David]

Hello

I need to produce a form that will contain a series of rows. Each row will be a specific object. Columns for each row will have data that will need editting.

ie:

Person1  EditA  EditB  EditC

Person2  EditA  EditB  EditC

Person3  EditA  EditB  EditC

Person4  EditA  EditB  EditC

The form should be submitted by one submit button that then updates each object.

Is it possible to produce this sort of form through any builtin Django functionality? From my (limited) understanding through reading all the docs I can find, this isn't something that can be achieved by a modelform or formsets.

Thank you for any assistance

[Marcin Tustin]

Create a modelform, then use a formset to manage all of the modelforms.

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[Tom Evans]

This is exactly what formsets are used for. Each row in your '<form>'
corresponds to a django form, and the entire '<form>' is modelled by a
django formset.

Cheers

Tom

[David]

 Thank you both for your replies.

Having created a modelform and used:

ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, extra=2)

I have a queryset that produces the objects I want to edit in my formset. How can I bind these objects to the formset and therefore remove the need for the extra=2 parameter?

[Tom Evans]

Use modelformset_factory instead. The FormSet class produced as a
result will accept a queryset argument, which will be used to work out
which objects are to be edited.

See:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/forms/modelforms/#model-formsets

Cheers

Tom

[David]

Hi

That is brilliant thank you! I've been struggling with this for too long :(

    MyModel Set = modelformset_factory(MyModel)

    formset =  MyModelFormSet(queryset= MyModel.objects.select_related().filter(left_team__isnull=True).filter(team=pk))

    variables = RequestContext(request, {

        'form': formset,

    })

Seems to do the job, except it adds an extra form at the bottom which I guess is for additions. Is there a way to remove that? so it is restricted solely to the results from my queryset?

[David]

Adding ,extra=0 to the modelformset_factory() line appears to do the job.

Thanks for your help guys

[Marcin Tustin]

There is documentation on the various options. It is possible to specify no extras.

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