I hacked my way through my problem this weekend, and I posted a
snippet about it here.

For anyone having problems with complex dynamic formsets, check check
out Malcolm Tredinnick's blog:

http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/01/06/django-tip-complex-forms/

And additionally, take a look at my attempts to turn his solution into
a formset:

http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1290/

Hope that is helpful to someone out there.

J

On Jan 14, 7:03 pm, James Smagala <smag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> There is a discussion here about building dynamic form select fields
> using __init__ on the form.  This, by itself, is not hard.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/98bd...
>
> Problem:  I have a formset that needs each form in it to be created in
> this dynamic sort of manner.
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> - Create the formset containing no forms, add them individually, and
> update the management form.  I had this mostly implemented, but I
> don't know how to actually update the values on the management form.
> Where do they live?
>
> - Figure out some tricky syntax that lets me pass both the queryset
> for a modelchoicefield (and an initial choice for said field) to a
> form.  Also figure out how to pass it though a formset to correctly
> init all those dynamic forms.  Not having much luck here.
>
> - Post about it, and get told I'm doing it all wrong.  Suggestions are
> welcome!
>
> Please help!
>
> James
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