Re: Model classes as containers to objects of another model

On Jul 19, 2016 12:16 PM, "Ajay D" <riffenstein@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I am fairly new to Django and find myself in the need to write to the group. 
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> I have a django model "A", which has an "items" attribute. "items" is a list with objects of another django model "B" (there are no relationships between A and B). Everytime I create a new instance of "A", I need to make the attributes of all of the "B" objects editable via the template/form of "A".
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> What would the obvious/ideal way to achieve this? 
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You would probably create a custom form that had all of the fields that you require, with a custom form save() method that would take the form fields and save them into the right models.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/forms/#building-a-form-in-django

Without any relationships, you have to do a bit more of the manual work yourself.

-James

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