Wow. It took a lot of digging, but your situation is documented in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/forms/formsets/#django.forms.formsets.BaseFormSet.can_delete
another thing that might also work in your case: def save_formset(self, request, form, formset, change): for form in formset.forms: form.instance.user = request.user formset.save() -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/5bcd9722-2132-4e5a-a4e4-4ced092748c7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.