Re: Creating and binding more than one model to a from

On Jun 28, 5:47 pm, thusjanthan <thusjant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Topic class I would like to create a form based on. BUT, I
> want many of these objects so Topics. How do I obtain such a feature.
>
> Suppose my form object is as follows:
>
> class TopicForms(ModelForm):
>     class meta:
>         model = Topic
>         fields = ('topic_id','topic')
>
> I want to display more than one of the topics that is associated to a
> particular object. Suppose its a topic about obama and there are 10
> topics. I want to display all 10 of these. and If they make a change
> to one of them I would like to save that change on submission. I would
> also like to provide additional blank topic fields for end users to
> enter new topics about obama. Any help would be appreciated. I am a
> little confused on the forms area of django.
>
> Nathan.

You need formsets. A general introduction is here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/forms/formsets/
and a guide to building formsets based on models is here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/forms/modelforms/#id1
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