On Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:56:35 UTC+1, trubliphone wrote:
>
> I am just banging my head against the wall and making no progress with
> this issue.
>
> I am trying to create a view that nests forms of related models. I had
> thought that inlineformset_factory would do the trick, but I clearly
> don't understand something.
>
> Assume I have the following models:
>
> <snip>
> class Author(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
>
> class Book(models.Model):
> author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
> title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> </snip>
>
> And the following forms:
>
> <snip>
> class AuthorForm(forms.ModelForm):
> class Meta:
> model = Author
>
> class BookForm(forms.ModelForm):
> class Meta:
> model = Book
>
> BookInlineFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Author, Book)
> </snip>
>
> Now assume I want to create a view that lets me create a new books,
> along with a new author. According to various documentation, I ought to
> do something a bit like this:
>
> <snip>
> def new_author(request):
> authorForm = AuthorForm()
> author = Author() # an empty author
> bookFormSet = BookInlineFormSet(instance=author) # since author is
> empty, shouldn't this contain empty forms?
> return render_to_response("new_author.html", {"formset" : bookFormSet,
> })
> </snip>
>
> But all I get is a set of fields belonging to the BookForm ("title") and
> nothing from the AuthorForm ("name").
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
You're on the right track with inlineformset, but you still need to render
the parent form separately - the formset is only the related items, not the
parent. So just pass `authorForm` to the context and display it as normal
(with `{{ authorForm.as_p }}` or by iterating through the fields).
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